Shall I trust my PDOC (vraylar)

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She wants that I would give another chance for cariprazine.
last time I believe I tried it for ~4months, but it was not so helpful for me as ablify. Ablify realy created miracles for me, but I want to try smth which would help me even more.
but she really really wants me to try again and take vraylar maybe even for 5 years. She says there’s possibility it will eliminate all the illusions or hallucinations I have.
What to do? Shall I trust her?

**I need to add. I trust my pdoc. Just last time experience with vraylar was more negative than positive for me.

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Why not stick with abilify?

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Somehow I have this idea that ablify is not effective for me as it was previously. I have a bit lower insight than when I started taking it.
Also, my pdoc reccomendation is to try vraylar again.

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Pdocs have their own bias sometimes and ignore the prior experience of the patient.
I have had pdoc errors over the years.

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sad to agree, but it could be the case…
but probably I will give another chance to vraylar.

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Give it a chance for few months :wink:

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With the support from your Psychiatrist hopefully things will work out for the better.

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do you still have halluzinations on abilify?

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I hope the same. :slight_smile: I think she has no reason to lie for me.

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Auditorial, I have voices inside my head from time to time.
Though last weeks it happens rarely @Medusa
And actually really rarely but visual hallucinations happen too

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So soon I’ll be taking vraylar

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According to meta analysis the effect size of abilify isn’t that different from vraylar

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If you really want to get rid of all the hallucinations and delusions ,you should try a more potent antipsychotic like risperidone ,amisulpride etc google lancet antipsychotic meta analysis to check that out

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@swordiebrom I know what you mean… but this my pdoc, which I am visiting from 2017 never gave me potent antypsichotic
She gave me haloperidol at the beginning, then ablify and vraylar. Oh once I took for several months quetiapine for a sleep

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Overall I am thankful for ablify. This one saved my life

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Because of how current ap works, more potent AP usually have more side effects too

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Okay I’ll keep that in mind :slight_smile:

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So this night I will take vraylar for a first time after long time.
I also will take ablify. (In case if I need it.)

Do they interact well together? Ablify and vraylar?

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Abilify and Vraylar are made of the same brew(3. Gen antipsychotics). So sure they should work well together.

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Thx @Ghosts for an answer