So, I finally visited a doctor today after a year.
She is changing the medications. She emphasized that I have schizoaffective disorder, not schizophrenia-- how can I be a stock trader and function while being schizophrenic, she said?
Also, she is changing the Ziprasidone for a low dose of Haldol. Let’s see what happens.
Yeah she did. lol. I don’t know, some people would say, schizoaffective is worse, because it encompasses both, but after conversing with me, she said that.
Yeah definitely. I was undiagnosed for the first 5 years, in which period I was having delusions and was suicidal (depression and delusions). At the time of diganosis, I went out for three nights (mania), so definitely there.
Once I told a doctor who had studied from England this, and he said, my illness started after my diagnosis He said I couldn’t carry on in college if I were having delusions and was suicidal. That is why I was looking for someone made in America all the time. lol.
Actually, I made the wrong combination. I mixed Abilify with Ziprasidone. The doctor said it is a combination that should not work for some reason or the other.
I am on max Ziprasidone with 40mg Latuda - which is also a strange combination but its working for me so I’m not gonna fix it.
I also changed healthcare systems and Doctors recently. Although my chart says SZ, sometimes my care team say schizoaffective which I had to look up. They insist I am depressed.
Oh wow - i see my pdoc monthly.
My symptoms were getting bad last year so it was trying adding Latuda or go on Clozapine and I don’t want that cause of blood work.