yes very! it’s how i found an antidepressant that works best for me and i’ve recently started an antipsychotic that i am not having any side effects to
Maybe it’s time to circle back to an old med? Geodon didn’t work for me the first time 'round and now it’s my savior.
Did you ever try a combination of a 1st gen with an ATAP? I find that works the best for me. I take Navane with Geodon. I can get the voices mostly quiet if I take a high enough dose of Navane with the max dose of Geodon.
Try a different psy.
I had a guy who only would give me one anti psy at the time and it sucked.
Switched to a different guy, after trying almost all the 2nd gen anti psys and starting with the 1st gen ones, put me on geodon and pherpenazine along with 4 other meds.
Im almost completely hallucination and side effect free. about 90%. The extra meds and the occasional hallucinations is because i wanted to be able to drink and have sex. Among other fun things
Clozapine plus prn Haldol…I still hear one voice and frequently experience paranoia, but I don’t have to listen to 4 voices and think that the food supply is poisoned anymore…on the negative side, I weigh as much as an NFL linebacker now, and I drool all over my pillow at night if I forget the atropine drops…yeah, the biweekly blood tests, too.
Put your trust in science and hope that some day in the near future there will be a meds that solve your mental problems.
Dang, I’m sorry, dude. I have a similar situation. I’ve tried almost everything. I can’t take the first gen antipsychotics, because I have tardive dyskinesia and cervical dystonia. I’ve tried all of the other antipsychotics, besides Clozapine.
But if I try Clozapine, I would be forced to switch pdocs. So, that’s like… last resort.
I tend to build a tolerance to psych drugs. They work pretty well, at first, and then over time, it feels like they have just stopped working. It’s happened over and over.
I’m currently on a combo of Seroquel 800mg, Latuda 80mg, and Lithium Carbonate 1,200mg. It’s working decently, for now. I still have breakthrough symptoms that drugs have never been able to get 100% rid of. But I’m better than I would be without meds.
I just hope that this combo of meds doesn’t completely poop out on me, in the future.
Oh, this is an old thread… Sorry!
I hope for you blossom that your meds will keep you sane.