Nope.
Was on it at one point thanks to Zyprexa also gifting me with diabetes. Doesn’t make that much of a difference for me other than blood sugar.
Was born with a congenital heart defect. Geodon has never affected it, my current cardiologist doesn’t worry about the Geodon, regards that as more of an urban legend than a practical matter. Feels the benefits greatly outweigh what is mostly a theoretical risk.
I take 400 mg clopixol every other week. and 500 mg qutiapine. It kills the Voices and makes me very calm and relaxed
Are your movements normal with clopixol?
I have taken 2 anticholinergic sideeffect pills for 24 years (the time I have been on clopixol). It only has caused a little bit of stiffness no Eps and no tardive dyskinesia.
I’m not sure either tbh i wish there was a cure for psychosis/ schizophrenia
I take Lexapro, clozapine, and abilify.
Like @shutterbug, it’s meds and for me, also coping skills that have enabled me to meet and eventually marry my new wife and have such a beautiful, wonderful life with her. The meds have also enabled me to learn piano, yoga, Spanish, meditation, and cooking over the last two decades.
I don’t have to spend most of the day fighting to keep my sanity like I did before I was medicated.
The first year I was diagnosed I went without medication and it was hell.
I was 19 years old and should have been working and going to school and taking my girlfriend to the movies. Instead I was in a group home with people who were mostly worse off than me (though it’s hard to believe) and I was almost not functioning. No job, no school, no girlfriend.
After I got asked to leave that place I survived a couple weeks before ending up back on a psyche ward. Then came the long term hospital. I was put on meds steadily for the first time.
Spent 8 months there. I don’t think the meds made me better but I figure they stopped me from getting worse. I pretty much suffered the entire 8 months. Then my parents found a beautiful group home for me.
Basically it was for rich kids. I hold the distinction of being the very last person they accepted who was on SSDI. I played about $400 a month rent while all the father’s of these sons and daughters who were doctors and professors and rich business people were paying over $2000 a month to have their kids there.
Anyways, slowly I made progress and became stable. The medication kind of leveled out my lows and terrible symptoms and I started functioning again. I eventually got a job and eventually enrolled at a community college.
But it was the meds that kept me out of the hospitals. I’m not going to argue with (relative) success. I tried going off meds a couple times early on and was flirting with disaster but luckily I got back on them.
I’ll take them for life and be thankful that they were discovered.
I take meds out of courtesy to everyone around me. I’m a dipstick unless I take all my meds. You all would not tolerate me without my meds. I’d be a crazed sociopath.
İ m normal person with medicines and this mean i would socially interact with life without dangers.medicines are good only side effects bad.
Purpose of taking meds
They are antipsychotics
In the most part they help to prevent psychosis
Clue is in the name
I’ve been out of hospital for 14 years
Not spent more than 8 hours In psychosis at any one time during that time
Without i would be dead or homeless
Schizophrenia will not be without symptoms even with meds
That is how bad of an illness it it
Without though you have no hope
There will be from schizophrenia lack of motivation
Poverty of speech
I’ve Frequently hallucinated persecutory voices every day most of my adult life
Anxiety
Depression is part of schizophrenia without antidepressants you may still have a really unhappy life
I don’t take meds and I struggle quite a bit but I’m doing my best.
Tbh its the side effects that scare me