Went to my pdoc today at last after six weeks of struggling and waiting. So relieved!
Lots to tell
she said the hospital rotates pdocs every six months so next month I’ll see a new pdoc.
mercifully I’m to come off quetiapine within two weeks (I’ve been taking 300, then for this next week 150 and following week 50 then it’s finished)
take amisulpride 150mg as was prescribed this last month (it’s just below my minimum dose so it will help me to see if other antipsychotic meds I’m trying will work)
lamotrigine 200 and citalopram 20 as usual
And now for THE main news - she’s starting me on haloperidol. I take 1,5mg for week starting tonight, and next three weeks after that I take 3mg.
Hoping the side effects will be more tolerable than the quetiapine!
I think new psoc every 6 months is a weird policy. Feels like just as you get to know someone you have to see someone else. Id love to hear their reasoning behind it.
Good luck with the haldol, I took haldol for 3 years at 5mg a day it worked really well. I got off it due to a pych docs request he wanted to try me on a newer med.
@lekkerhondje@StarCrazy my pdoc said why they change every six months is because of training. My local hospital I attend is govt teaching hosp and they get a lot of student drs and nurses.
I am disappointed that I can’t see my pdoc anymore as she is very nice, but hoping next one will be too
That stuff gave me the worst case of restless leg syndrome and made me very dizzy, I was only on it a few weeks but even after I quit I was dizzy for months, I could sit and walk, but whenever I stood still I felt like I was going to topple over. Haldol did not agree with me.
It’s a first generation antipsychotic and it’s known to have a higher incidence of tardive dyskinesia.
