I’ve been on vraylar (3 mg) almost a week if not a week now. I have definitely noticed a reduction in my symptoms though they are not totally absent. Haven’t been having any hallucinations, and no voices despite my sleep having been rocky.
Only symptom I’ve noticed is I’m still having what I know are bizarre thoughts. For example I can’t HEAR the demons now but I still sense them in my room and they have been pissed I’ve been spending the night at the neighbors (house sitting). They were trying to make me tired to feed off me. That’s an example.
However I am not sure Risperidone even took away my bizarre thoughts and that was the one that worked best for me, it just made it so I wasn’t obsessed with them and didn’t focus on them as much. Also it’s still only barely been a week so I may see more improvement over time.
That’s my update!
summary: there have been noticeable improvements in my symptoms with vraylar which is very promising though they aren’t 100% gone as of yet-still no noticeable side effects though I’ve been so busy w company haven’t had time to monitor weight or test sexual function. Good news so far anyways!
I’m on Vraylar as well, at 6mg. It’s not perfect, but no ap is. One thing, tho, is that at seven months on it, the med is still producing new effects, mostly good. Maybe you won’t need to do much monitoring, @Anna.
I’ve also been sort of hesitant bc I know if I’m kept insanely busy like don’t really have any downtime to myself or time to think it can also seem like I have no symptoms. Which is very strange to me. It’s almost like the symptoms are like my brain eating itself out of lack of stimulation. But I hate being that level of busy it is very stressful to me and is often followed by a crash where my symptoms explode as soon as I’m not busy anymore.
Actually that pattern reminds me of dreaming. If you’re sleep deprived & don’t dream you’ll then go into dreams sooner and have more vivid and frequent dreams as soon as you do fall asleep again. So my psychosis acts like that too. I guess I am always sort of dreaming while awake.
You know the funny thing is just like you I was keeping myself extremely busy with work almost even working 90 hours in one week. I work as a cashier. It kept the symptoms down and kept me distracted for a while but the problem is that you can’t sustain that long term which I couldn’t. So I eventually cut it down to 60 hours and right now I’m at 48 to 50 hours and soon will cut that down to only 40 - 42 hours. My symptoms have subsided a lot and I’m doing a lot better than before but you do need some downtime and time to relax and just spend time with yourself so don’t push yourself too much because you need to think long term as well. Just thought I’d share my experience. Hang in there it does get better with time.
Yes exactly it’s not sustainable. I usually try to keep myself moderately busy but not to such a level where it causes me a lot of stress. As a student that’s not always possible but with a lot of time management practice is doable most of the time.
