I don’t know what to believe anymore. My pdr says negative symptoms aren’t caused by meds or sz and that its all in my head. But reality is that I have no control over them. Its hard for ppl to understsnd how we feel if their negative symptoms aren’t as bad as us. Its easy for ppl to blame us for them, it doesn’t take a brain to do that lmao.
Personally from my experience with quitting meds for 1-2 years, negative symptoms are from both meds and the sz. My negatives were less without meds, I was more active physically but not as much as before sz.
I’m very tired on risperdal at 4mg, but I also think my SSRI affects it in a negative way. Plus, I’m on a pretty high dose of Hydroxyzine, which is an antihistamine, so that may contribute. The only that helps is caffeine, but I’ve stopped caffeine for the most part because I’m switching to a different OCD med.
Yeah, I have to go completely off of it when my positive symptoms are bothersome because it makes me paranoid, anxious, and hallucinate more. But for some reason it doesn’t really affect my OCD like it does for my older brother.
Isn’t there other meds you can try? Maybe 2mg Risperdal with 40mg Latuda? My negatives were less on Latuda but I wasn’t 100% stable. Maybe you can be stable on it.
There’s a user here on 6mg Risperdal who’s studying medicine and has no negative symptoms. I believe its bcz we have different genetics so we react differently to certain meds.