With the Advent of glp-1 inhibitors like mounjaro and ozempic, we are entering an era where throwing the kitchen sink as far as antipsychotics go maybe less dangerous than in the past with regard to cholesterol.
I am on zyprexa 15 mg and invega, the main reason we don’t treat with those first line is because of the weight gain. There’s always controversy around weight gain but we’re entering an era of schizophrenia where the strongest medicines can have a medicine added so they dont over eat on the strongest medicines, clozapine, zyprexa and risperdal.
We’re entering an era where we dont have to care what antipsychotics we get on because there won’t be more hunger on them
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They put me on olanzapine first treatment drug when I was naive and I put 6 stone on in weight (in UK terms) which is a lot. My care team didnt care.
I was originally on that one too. It helps OCD for .
Me but the hunger had me absolutely miserable now though I feel no hunger all day
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I’m now on Invega which is better, no hunger but still fat.
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Im on both invega and zyprexa, i feel the strength of the medicine
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Is it working for you @PikaTchu ?
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Yes I can feel things I haven’t felt in years
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The hospital put me on a mood stabiliser and it feels weird thinking slow,
I felt that same feeling where thinking and speaking too fast downed a bit. Now I have interest in getting myself a new Nintendo switch and just living it up again. I’ve noticed the heat effects my illness and can make me psychotic I’m just going to take my zyprexa and risperdal and hope things don’t get worse
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I wanna see some success stories from weight loss meds and clozapine
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I want to walk an hour in the morning 8am and one hour in the afternoon at my own pace everyday.
Not good tonight as thinking about ordering a pizza.
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I don’t like taking meds for side effects of meds. They all have side effects and the more meds, the greater effect on physical health.
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Hawaiian pizza lol Need to be quick though as it closes soon,
That’s my brother’s favorite kind of pizza
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Yeah if our insurance allows it. Also there are side effects on the other drugs.
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I wish insurance would cover one of those for me to take. They won’t even cover Mounjaro for my diabetic type 2 husband because of his A1c being in the diabetic zone, yet 0.1% away from their magic cut off A1c number. Makes absolutely no sense. Diabetes is diabetes and thus needs treatment. Am I wrong? I don’t understand this.
I’m on clozapine and took Saxenda for a couple years…I went from 298 lbs to 205 lbs. I also weigh/measure my foods and keep a food diary, and I also keep trigger foods out of the house. Still, I just got diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and started taking Mounjaro, but it’s only been a couple of weeks so I can’t tell if it’ll be better than the Saxenda. Neither of these meds are “miracle” meds cuz I still need to be disciplined about what I eat, but they help the food cravings a lot.
Rellevant I just want to excuse that I told you that I told you that mono terapy is the only way forward. That was in a moment of madness I said that to you.Yes I pulled the tricker far to quick. Your phd knows how one antipsychotics interact with another antipsychotics. I was on 3 antipsychotics for 12 years and the doc told me that he could only predict how two antipsychotics worked together. Besides of that the yearly blodtest can tell if your meds harm your health.
I’ve finally decided to stay on Seroquel with my Clopixol depot.
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