For those who have had trouble with staying on their medication, how long off your medication does it usually take for psychotic symptoms to occur.
If happened only to me once but it was around 2 - 3 months.
I had my first relapse at 20 was another 10 years before I had another relapse and I was unmedicated
never medicated?
About a month and a half before i start talking about existential stuff. Then i get mania and do lots of stuff for awhile. Then the voices return full force and visions of the apocalypse about 2 and a half months in.
About 3 months in ill start talking outloud to “the watchers” that show up in my dreams and irl. I scare the crap out of my parents with that one.
So its best i stay medicated lol. That aint even half of what truly happens though.
Im on medication now but wasnt for ten years
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It takes about a month for me to start wigging out if I go off my meds. I’ll start getting a little weird about 2 weeks in…you know, little stuff like not bathing and not sleeping, but the full psychosis where I start worrying about Watchers (people that can steal my thoughts) typically starts at the one month mark. Honestly, sometimes I go off my meds just because things like Watchers and the intense paranoia actually make my existence more interesting than the boring humdrum of the medicated life. It’s scary as hell but I experience a much wider spectrum of emotions when I’m off my meds and I actually kind of like it.
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When i stopped amisulpride in the past it took 3 days to get ill. with my olanzapine if i stop it it takes a week.
Up until the Amyloban I always had the psychotic symptoms, but they would gradually become worse and I’d cross the line where I lost my insight without realizing it. Usually 3 to 6 months until a relapse once off meds. The last one was very bad and I’m never messing with my meds again – they will be taken as directed by the doctor.
Before naltrexone I would get very psychotic if I cut my dose in half, later that same day.
So I was on 25 mg abilify and if I only took 10 I’d get floridly psychotic on the verge of hospitalization the same day
Now that I’m
A bit more normal thanks to naltrexone
I’ve gone off all my meds and stayed on naltrexone and it was day #31 I got psychotic.
Before that I wasn’t fine. I didn’t tell anyone I was off my meds but people thought something was up with me.
Then day #31 I couldn’t take it anymore had to go back on my meds
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I thought naltrexone was just to keep off the booze and opiates?
It’s also @Gratitude’s primary antipsychotic for some reason that no one knows.
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Naltrexone really helped me after rehab, I was on it for two years
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goodluck with that hope everything turns out fine
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I’m like an addict to it because it keeps me in one piece. If I stopped it I think I’d go off the rails pretty quick, especially on this lower dose of abilify now.
If I went off it I dunno what the F I’d do
I’d probably be homeless doing dope drinking 40s pretty soon honestly.
What it really helps me with is HPPD, depersonalization, psychosis, thickness of skin, mood and anxiety. As well as my addiction issues.
I was taking Vicodin and Kratom when I was prescribed naltrexone for my alcoholism. Really doing bad. Was ready to go back to rehab then I tried naltrexone it somehow ratified ALL my problems to an extent. And it improves me daily.
On a subreddit “anti drinking medication” they were baffled by my story.
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Cheers! I’m glad it helps dude.
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5 months. No hearing/seeing hallucinations but paranoia is pretty much still around.
About 4 months before I have a bad episode and land in the hospital.
A week. I’m quick to go off the deep end.
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