At our last meeting i tried talking to my psychiatrist about new meds in development, specifically Iti-007 and he said he’s never heard of it. He doesn’t know anything about new drugs!
Does your psychiatrist talk to you about new meds in development? My psychiatrist has no idea about any 
I thought they would at least have news reports or some kind of database for this stuff but this guy doesn’t know anything about new meds. He has me feeling hopeless like there is no hope in the newer meds.
No she doesn’t talk about new drugs; but she, in detail, explains the drugs she does prescribe.
Mine didn’t either. I asked about the new atypicals and he brought up vraylar and rexulti. I think they’re cautious because so many drugs fail even later on in the trials. So they don’t educate themselves until the pharm rep actually shows up at their door with new samples. The best I got was nuplazid as an off label atypical that my doc said we would have to keep our fingers crossed if I tried it because it hasn’t been approved for psychosis yet. It doesn’t cause weight gain or movement disorders so it looked like a good one to me but I decided not to risk it because I can’t handle having another episode.
I read a lot about Iti-007 though and in my opinion that’s the best bet we got right now for psychosis/schizophrenia. It’s also almost a guarantee that it will be released but when is the question. It could be as soon as next year or as far off as 2018 but either way it’s worth waiting for. Supposedly it works on both positive and negative symptoms because it targets glutamate a novel approach to treating schizophrenia and was said to increase social skills. I got all this from Google. And read some posts on here about it too. It’s basically my last hope as for now all I got is this latuda and life basically sucks on this stuff.
I can’t think of any reason a psychiatrist would bother learning about a drug that hasn’t even been approved yet. It seems like doing a lot of unnecessary extra work just to say, “yeah, there’s a drug out there that may or may not work some time in the future.” Kind of a waste of time, given all the other things they could be researching.
My doc barely knows anything about the drugs that are already out let alone new ones lol.
My psychiatrist seems to like the meds being pushed by the pharmacy reps.
She doesn’t know about meds in the pipeline - few pdocs are familiar with meds that have not come out yet.
On the NHS cost constraints kinda mean that meds aren’t very available until they have gone generic. So most docs don’t keep up with new meds.
I was on zyprexa before generic olanzapine came out.
The same with abilify! I guess it depends on your pdoc, as they like to know they work and they wait a while to see if anymore side effects come to light!
Where I live they won’t prescribe quetiapine XR because it’s too expensive and that is generic!
Wtf…
That has never been a factor here. Your local trust must be stingy!
Apparently it prescribes the most XR in Scotland so the health board has been leaning on the consultants.
They deny money is the reason it is getting prescribed less but that is BS. I wasn’t supposed to know this but my old nurse let it slip.
There is a lack of transparency for sure.