Treatment resistant meaning despite being on medication, you still have breakthrough symptoms or even that medication doesn’t work at all for you. Also if you could put how long you were ill before getting treatment that would be helpful to know!
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Oh also why I’m interested is because they say the longer you went untreated the less medication is supposed to work for you and I’m finding that true for me. I have had psychosis my entire life and only found 1 antipsychotic that worked for me 95% (I still had delusional thoughts!) I have not had luck with any other AP I’ve tried so far. They reduce my symptoms but none make them go away completely.
I think Abilify it’s a weak AP IMO because after my diagnosis i was still hearing voices while on Abilify, but now Invega it’s the best AP for me
Which med are u on anna…latuda or geodon…!!! Hope ur not treatment resistant…
Yeah Abilify got rid of my paranoia and literally nothing else. Still voices, delusions, hallucinations, etc. Was just a lot less scared. Latuda I noticed no improvement in anything on but I also wasn’t on it very long. Geodon helps but has only reduced the severity of my some of my symptoms, while others like paranoia or hallucinations it doesn’t help with at all. Risperidone was best for me. (Risperidone is very very similar to invega)
When I first had psychosis the first medication they put me on (respiridone) worked first time…however I started to decrease the medication dose over a year and my symptoms came back…an increase again of this medication didn’t solve anything so I guess it became treatment resistant. They then tried 3 other drugs before one finally worked which is amisulpride. The 3 that didn’t work were olanzapine, quatiapine, aripriprazole. I’ve now been on amisulpride for over 4 years with no return of symptoms…currently on a dose of 300mg a day, however in reality this is really only 200mg a day as I forget to take them sometimes.
Sadly I have not had great luck with medication when it comes to antipsychotics. I tend to get 110% side effects for not much benefit which is why I am so angsty about staying on them.
I’m on geodon now but it’s not excellent. I’ve had to take klonopin to sleep for the past week because I swear to god there is a ghost in my closet and even though it’s not aggressive or anything it still scares the bejeezus out of me.
I wonder sometimes if I just need a much higher dose. (I needed to be on a pretty high dose of antidepressant to get good effects from it) Unfortunately with the severity of side effects I get from APs I often cannot tolerate going on doses higher than the lowest therapeutic one. All of my attempts to go on doses higher have ended in me becoming so distressed I drop cold turkey and that never ends well.
Nada effect for everything. Except the hallucinations are intermittent now…maybe Rexulti works/ doesn’t work for me in cycles?
I was treatment resistant but then I started Abilify. But I’m not convinced it was the meds that cured me. I think it was through my own volition…
I said no but get breakthroughs from time to time. Positives aren’t bad. I can deal with hallucinations etc. Negatives bite harder. It’s all about managing your symptoms with the least amount of drug you can do versus the side effects! Unfortunately, these drugs do come with side effects so that makes it even more important.
Take what you need to function. Take what you need to beat your symptoms. Take as little as possible because of side effects. … I don’t know if symptoms are as severe on medciation but they aren’t as often or as dire as they used to be! It really is a balancing act!!!
As an aside…you might need to go higher than smallest theraputic dose. I do the same on antidepressants and still get side effects…you do what increases function! If lower isn’t cutting it then try higher…yeah side effects are a bitch but it’s not insurmountable!
I think this is the real definition of breakthrough symptoms.
Treatment resistant is if you try antipsychotic after antipsychotic and none of them work at all for you… As in total acute permanent psychosis which my sister had for 12 years
I still have delusions, but my delusions aren’t real delusions. They’re real.
I’m still hearing voices after being on haldol. My nurse practitioner just raised my dose.
When I’m on meds, most of my positive symptoms are controlled.
The only symptom that always seems to remain is paranoia.
Not delusional paranoid beliefs though.
My OCD has never gona away obsessive thought disorder i suffer with