Latuda may has well have given me a bag of skittles and wished me good luck
I reached up to 1200 but last attempt to put me back on it it was for 100 and I couldnāt resist the sedating effect it had on me.
1200 mgs is a pretty stiff dose, and would be pretty sedating for 18 hours or so, even if one took it at bedtime. 100 mgs should be tolerable (for most, not all) if taken at at bedtime, but thereās always the exception.
Clozapine, definitely. It made me into a drooling zombie!
risperdal. i was on it for 13 years before i got on something better & i love this one but i donāt want to say what it is.While i was on risperdal i didnāt want to b a part of society or care what people said about me. I was just existing, waiting on death. I didnāt want to have sex anymore or have a girlfriend. I did know what fear & depression was. if it wasnāt for the antidepressant making me happy, then fear would have been my # 1 emotion,then depression/apathy. I gained a lot of weight with risperdal almost becoming a diabetic. The heaviest i got up to was 230lbs. I got on the medicine Iām on now & the last time i was weighed, i was about 160. When was on risperdal, i had a bad case of e.d. Now Iām able to get a erection but its not like when i was in my teens. I guess i waited too late. i should have gotten off risperdal a whole lot sooner, when i was in my twenties. Iām in my early thirties now and it pisses me off thinking about all the times i could have had sex. As soon as i got on this medicine it was like everybody was going away cause they knew i would have sex with someone on this medicine. That pissed me off even worse & people hold the way i acted when i was on risperdal against me. they say i donāt want to have sex or b around anybody & they hold the goofed up mistakes i made when i was on this medicine. i was gaff prone or reckless before this disease and i was even worse on risperdal.
Geodon. It was wonderful while I was on it. When it was no longer affective without going to extremely high doses my pdoc decided to taper me off. I went from 60mg to nothing. I was sick for two weeks. I could barely walk from my bed to the bathroom . It was all I could muster to feed the cat each day. He finally called in a new antipsychotic and three days after starting it, my symptoms subsided. NEVER again.
All of them. There is not one anti-psychotic that cured my condition, most just repressed or numbed me and gave me a list of side effects that required even more pills and potions,
Risperdal did nothing for me, or I was at sub-therapeutic levels before I quit it. And I gained 20 lbs.
Yep abilify.couldnāt tolerate it at all.
Risperidone on low dose , I tolerated OK.
Abilify, both the worst and the best med I tried. I was put on oral Abilify 4 and a half years ago, the akathisia was so bad I was pacing every waking hour, even when eating. Sitting down for more than 2 seconds was excruciating. I was taking it separate doses 2x a day, each time after taking it I got really sleepy and had to sleep for 2-3 hours. I lived like that for 1,5 months.
So when the doctor told me 3 months ago she was going to put me back on Abilify, this time the long acting depot, I was hesitant. Besides a little bit of nausea after the first couple of shots Iāve had no side-effects, no akathisia. Iām on Geodon and low dose Risperidone also, so I get akathisa from them, but I only pace about 2 hours a day and itās not too annoying.
If the Abilify maintena wouldnāt have worked out I would have to be on Clozapine, which would be absolutely horrible.
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