New medicine?

Medications
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is there new medicine available for sz or bipolar?

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Ulotaront is in the pipeline. Its coming out in 2024. Its supposed to be good for positive and negative symptoms.

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I was so looking forward to it coming out in 2023, but oh well

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@Gecko tou experience negative symptoms from the medications you currently on?

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No, I have negative symptoms in general. Not sure if Ulotaront treats those kinds of negative symptoms. But I’m hoping it does. But they also promised that with Abilify.

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There are newer meds for both on the market. And new meds come out all the time.

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Are they actually better than abilify though? I thought they basically had the same mechanism of action as abilify.

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No Ulotarant is different, it works on TAAR1 receptors.

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I’m talking about the other “new” medications on the market that came out after abilify. They basically are the same as abilify.

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You mean Caplyta? Afaik its a dopamine antagonist and not a partial dopamine agonist like Abilify but it also acts on NMDA and AMPA receptors.

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Oh I didn’t know that. I just thought they hadn’t made decent strides in medicine for schizophrenia since abilify. Have you tried Caplyta? I didn’t know that even existed, sounds like something I need to try.

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No, its not available here in Canada.

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Oh dang. 15151515

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Do you know if it’s expensive or hard to get prescribed?

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Oh, I just read reviews on it, seems to not have the best reviews. But I assume most schizophrenic medication is like that.

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I have no idea, maybe make a thread about it. I think some users are or were on it. This is its mechanism, it acts on D1 receptors and not only D2.

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Stimulating D1 receptors seems to improve cognition from what I read.

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I’m good, I’ll just ask my doctor about it, although she will probably just say wait till I see a psychiatrist, which who knows how soon it will be till I finally get to see one.

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I just wish these medications weren’t such a crap shoot. Like even if there are positives to a medication, they always got to have negatives.

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But I’ve only tried one so far, so I definitely can’t complain seeing as many of you have been through tons of meds, I can’t even imagine.

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