What is the best anti psychotic when compared to olanzapine and resperidone?
I would have to say Geodon. It’s kept me stable a long time.
Geodon. or Seroquel.
Haldol is the most potent
I went from risperidone to Orap… It’s kept things under control while having a fraction of the side effects, drowsiness, all that.
I couldn’t stand Resperidone, it made me feel absolutely awful and bag of nerves. I have always been put on Olanzapine. When I was about 17, I was put on it. I then went a few years without problems but when they came back again they put me back on a higher dose of Olanzapine. It works for me, but makes me so tired all the time and gained lots of weight. It will - in my opinion - solve the symptoms but at the expense of everything else. I have barely done anything for two years because I have practically been sleeping most of the time.
So comparing the two seems to be largely based on personal experience of side-effects, however I’d try to be put on something else if I were you. I appreciate though that if you’re outside the UK - from reading various posts online, the meds you take can be dictated by what your insurance wants to pay - which sucks big time.
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Well, amisulpride works well for me, but its not available in the US for some reason. I tried olanzapine and risperidone and they are also good.
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I can only tolerate sulpiride for depressive schizophrenia, not available in the US, I also take SAMe and Sarcosine
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Latuda is better than both.
Haldol is good for me so far. What you take?
tons of â– â– â– â– but Geodon is my entree
Everyone will have specific opinions about what is best… because it has been best for them.
Sz is not, however, one single “medical condition.” It is a very complex combination of genetic, epigenetic (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics) and environmental circumstances. And, as such, one’s particular version of sz will respond to whatever treatments it responds to any not others.
Risperidone and olanzepine are fairly “middle aged” meds for sz these days, though they still work “best” for some people. Newer sz meds include Geodon ziprasidone, Seroquel quetiapine, Abilify arapiprasole, Latuda lurasidone, Invega paliperidone, Saphris asenapine and Fanapt iloperidone. Any one of them may be “better” or “worse” for you.
One does best (statistically, at least) to get oneself in front of a board certified psychopharmacologist for evaluation, diagnosis and med prescription… understanding that one may have to take two or three or four different anti-psychotics over time to finally get to the one (or two) that “get the job done.”
Then it’s on to cognitive behavioral psychotherapy (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy) to handle the errors of perception and logic that are so often the essence of sz once the physiology is at least somewhat under control.
Doesn’t geoden make you sleepy?
Lol no. It doesn’t make me sleepy at all anymore.
You sound like a cute skitzo! Lol lol
Are you gay or something?
Lol! Yea hahahahahah
What works for one person, may not work for another person. Every bodies physiology is different. So resperidone works fine for me; it may not work for you at all. And this is true for a lot of people.
I was on prolixen for more than twenty years. Sometimes it worked at one dose and months later I needed to raise it. You could take prolixen for a week and it may not work at all and you couldn’t stand the side effects. So there are some general characteristics of some drugs (sedating, gets you wired, etc.) but generally there is no guarantee that a certain drug will help you just because it helped someone else.
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There is a bunch of newer atypical antipsychotics - Latuda, Saphris, Abilify, Geodon, Fanapt - better with side effects but honestly I do not know how effective they would be for bipolar mood control.
I am on Risperdal now and it works well for mania and mood stabilization, its full of side effects but has a proven track record - so does Zyprexa.
The newer Atypicals might be better for the body, but I have my doubts on how effective they would be for my hard to treat bipolar symptoms - I highly doubt that a med like Saphris would be more effective than Risperdal for controlling mania or mixed episodes.
In clinical trials, Zyprexa did better in combating symptoms than Saphris.
Lurasidone worked good for me but it stopped working…it didn’t stop the “auditory hallucinations” but it helped my mood making things more bearable.