Should you use coffee if you're Sz and on AP's along with AD's?

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I’ve been trying to cut back caffeine. I just finished my second cup, am feeling happy and energetic now. I heard you should avoid caffeine if you’re Sz/SzA.

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Caffeine can affect certain APs like clozapine. Here’s an article that goes into more detail

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Thanks @everhopeful

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im on olanzapine and zoloft and drink coffee everyday. although on higher doses of zoloft caffeine becomes more intense

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Hey @anon54988740

When I was on 40mg of Olanzapine I slept like 12 hours a day and had very little energy or motivation to do anything when I was awake. I don’t know what I would do without coffee back then. I drank on average 10-15 cups a day just to stay awake. It never affected me in a psychotic way or any other negative way, but it can for other people.

I’m no longer on Olanzapine. I’m on Lurasidone and it isn’t sedating at all so now I just have 1 coffee in the morning when I get up and then that is all. If I have too much now I sometimes get anxiety.

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I see. I’m on Abilify now, and it’s not affected by caffeine, but the Zyprexa I used to take is.

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Thanks @cigarino @Headspark

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I had caffeine today and I haven’t had it for a month. I’m a slow metaboliser of coffee so I can’t really drink it , as I feel really bad after a few days.

I do feel really clear headed now though, but I’ll pay for that tomorrow with a caffeine hangover.

I only had 2 spoons of instant at 1pm.

I wish I could drink coffee regularly.

I’m on Abilify also.

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I tried drinking it for a long time, but then I realized it exacerbates psychotic behaviour severely in my case. It actually took me a really long time to find that out funny enough. Maybe because I grew up with it. It seems so common in our society to drink it that I didn’t consider the possibility it might be bad for me. Now I might occasionally drink a “toy” coffee once in a while. Like a sachet of cafe latte that has about 15% coffee in it, but any more than that and I’m setting myself up for trouble.

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High doses of caffeine are particularly concerning for individuals with schizophrenia; caffeine alters dopaminergic activity at post-synaptic neurons through its actions at adenosine A2A receptors, which may exacerbate positive symptoms, such as delusions and hallucination.

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I read somewhere that a test of combining caffeine and antipsychotic medications in a test tube made the AP’s less potent.

I drink caffeine in the morning and always take Invega and Rexulti at night.

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I drink alot of caffeine. I really prefer it that way

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I drink 3 to 5 coffees a day.

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Coffee is bad for me

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i stick to decaf mostly as caffeine makes me more paranoid and unwell and my voices become homicidal ( the bad voices )

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I’m addicted to coffee. I drink it throughout the day. My pdoc doesn’t have any issues with it.

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