It was prescribed PRN but also because his Invega injection isn’t lasting so for when the Invega starts to wear off which seems to be happening, again. Getting him to take it regularly is hard as he is not liking it. First when he takes it he says that it helps but then 20 minutes later it’s making him feel depressed and I think physically ill. Working on him taking it at night so that he won’t notice this affect since he will be sleeping. He needs the AP right now.
Monster energy drinks and others however I’m trying to keep them out of his life. It’s been awhile since he had one. I can get him to take a multi-vitamin but that’s it. He was taking Omega 3 for about a week but now won’t as he says it makes him feel sick but I think he just doesn’t want to take them as some of his delusional thinking is that he can force his body and mind to work as he wants… I’m not sure. I am slowly introducing 5-HTP which helps him feel better.
I know he needs to stay on it for a bit to get the best of it but he can be pretty defiant.
Honestly Clozaril has worked best for my son and may be considered again if we can’t get this straightened out. The problem is he doesn’t stay med-compliant for very long periods.
He doesn’t lift weights very often. Rarely in fact. That day was out of character for him.
Thanks for the tips on my blog. I know that my sentences and paragraphs can sometimes get lengthy so I will try to watch for that.
I was diagnosed psychotic about ten years ago, taking zyprexa since then last 2 years swapped to zypadera…
I am build off medication and now i am in my final stage of quiting… i get half the lowest dosis atm…
When i get my picure, a few days later i feel agression too…but i do feel better with less medication, i become more active and when “voices” in my head start to kick in…wich i kept heaving with more drugs too…i feel that now i am more able to control my thought and be like…it is there just focus on what i do and move on…and i feel i am better at this with less drugs…
but y like i said, i feel aggitated when i just get the picure and feels some less verbal boundaries too…i will talk my psychiatric about it too…
if i can just say my personal opinion about psychiatric drugs…as far as i know…there is no mathematical logic in these drugs…it is not that this drug is the cure for a psychose…it is like this…he is psychotic, he has more dopamine, this drug decrease dopamine, let’s give it to them, it seems to make most of them less psychotic…
In short, they treat psychosis. Most drugs aren’t really cures anyway, but antipsychotics are effective and usually essential, which makes them pretty decent drugs.
I’ve been on zyprexa for over 15 years… I’ve found that often I wake up cranky and get easily frustrated because on it I just don’t have the energy to deal with bs. And by the way it’s like don’t sweat the small stuff and it’s all small stuff. After years of take AP’s I just couldn’t hack it anymore, people trying to draw out of me just wasn’t there. I started smoking drinking just about anything short of street drugs until I just started punching holes in the wall of my parents house where I had been living. If he isn’t violent when you leave him alone then the zyprexa is fine with him. In truth the aggression was because they gave me no way out… Not because olanzapine. I just couldn’t handle being superman for everybody. Sorry to sound so negative… You sound like a good parent.
