Med resistant but found something that works for you?

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Did medication not work for you but you eventually find something that did? 4 years ago I was on 40 mg of latuda and no symptoms for 3 years… I started smoking weed and I’ve had psychosis for 2 years even though I quit the weed. I was on 12mg of Invega and 140 mg of latuda. Now I’m on 140 mg of latuda and 8mg of risperidone… what worked for you?

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I had a different problem. I was on a med for over a decade when it stopped working. I tried other meds that didn’t work. Now I am on 60mg of Latuda and it works perfectly.

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The meds I tried that didn’t work or made things worse:

Abilify, zyprexa, risperidone, invega, Saphris, geodon, seroquel, Latuda, and 2 others that I can’t remember off the top of my head.

Haldol worked okay for a couple years, but then stopped working.

I’m on perphenazine and Rexulti now and they’re working pretty well.

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Wait wut ? 161515

:no_mouth:

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I am on clozaril for treatment resistant schizophrenia, the only medication that worked for me

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i was found treatment resistant sz too… but eventually they put me on a combo of the risperdal consta 50mg depot 2 weekly and 200mg of clozapine per day and that combo works for me.

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I was a treatment resistant sza for 33 years. Then my brilliant (according to everyone), pdoc placed me on three AP’s: Risperdal Consta shots, Geodon and Seroquel. That’s what did the trick to finally end my psychosis and stabilize my mood.

I am sooo grateful for modern pharmacology.

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Idk if im med resistant… Meds work for me very short term. The episodes come back after a few months and i have to up the dose or change meds conpletely. Right now latuda is mostly working for me

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I’m sorry you’re going through that! Hopefully you find something that works for you

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My experience personally is that most sec Gen. Antipsychotics stop working after a while. In 1996 I took risperdone that stopped after a year even though I was on 16 mg.!Then I took Zyprexa that stopped working after half a year. Then I finally got on Clopixol depo a 1 Gen. And that has worked ever since.