Hi Cactustamato in reply clozapine was the worst one me be forced to take at threat of being electrocuted eleagal but still used today.
It was a once banned drug now legal witch caused me to gain 50kg in a short three months of eating only dietary hospital food. I’m now sugar diabetic and had cholesterol problems all ok according to mental health. I’ve now lost that weight on other medication and have just had surgery on my stomach to remove the excess skin left and all people say is suffer.
O well at least they didn’t BBQ my brain.
Clozapine was the worst for me - made me pee in my hospital bed once and I had to wrap a towel around my pillow when I slept because I drooled so much. I was a zombie, constantly sleepy. It was awful!
aye, clozapine…risperadal made my urinary tract lock up and I have to give myself a catheter to pee for a week at the va. Serequel just made me lazy and hungry and I gained sooo much weight. I take latuda now but I really wonder if it’s working sometimes. Bleh.
It has its uses for challenging tasks, I functioned very highly off of meds and function a little more highly when I am having episodes induced by stress, but it makes me reach out to alcohol, albeit I am far from an alcoholic, my doctors told me never to go back to AA and that they have seen alcoholics and therefore know that I am not one. I will drink several drinks but don’t get anywhere near “alcoholic” level, I was close to alcoholic level when I was not on medication. The confounding variables in diagnosing me with alcoholism are that it was acute and positively correlated to being freaking schizophrenic.
So yes, my symptoms being stimulating is good in some respects but bad in others, like behaving normally, I get super silly and say crazy ■■■■ and mess with people when I am at a certain level of symptoms. My friends think its funny and are aware that I have schizophrenia, one of my friends has it too, I like to inform people I date about it within a month or sometimes on the first date if they seem like they are extroverted. My sense of humor is sarcastic and beyond inappropriate and what people call “f**ked up”
Being stimulated just brings the need for a depressant to feel normal.
I am really successful in what I put my mind to, like making grades and lifting weights, also being social, I am maybe too social lately and need to chill out a bit. The problem is when I do things like hear voices and get pissed off, wake up in the early morning and cant go back to sleep, blurt out inappropriate words, can’t hold back while lifting weights and hurt myself (that’s happened, believe it or not), you can imagine how being on naturally occurring berserker mushrooms is not always a good thing, LOL
But yes, my case of paranoid schizophrenia has some sort of energy level problem associated with it, not a mood problem, I tested for being sightly depressive when I was evaluated, more like a paranoia induced hypervigilance which keeps me alert and keeps my vital signs too high. I am on six pills a day and my vitals at the psychiatrist’s office the other day were 140/90 and 94 bpm. I am on blood pressure medicine, 80mg of it.
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I sometimes think I can still throw mountains when it comes to weights and I’ve hurt myself badly too. My mania, self shame of my appearance, desperation to prove to military and official voices in my head that I’m still worth the salt…has led me to make bodily injuries with physical training. That and before the illness I had a lot of training injuries while serving active duty military. Be careful with those weights, especially if you have mania like me.
Trileptal made me acutely suicidal. More suicidal than I have ever been. I was fighting my dad to jump off my 18th floor balcony in the middle of the night. I was given it for seizures, but sometimes it is used as a mood stabilizer.
BRooke
I don’t really know the worst. Lithium made one gland of my parathyroid grow 5x its normal size leading to kidney stones until I had surgery. Abilify made me agitated. Risperdal increased my Prolactin levels causing me to stop having my period. But I think Seroquel is the worst. It made me gain a ton of weight, and now I’m at a point with it where I can’t stop taking it or increase the dose. When my pdoc tried to take me off of it I had bad mood swings, intense panic attacks, and really bad lack of motivation. If I take more then my body is used to it causes intense sedation which for some reason causes really bad panic attacks and really bad psychosis. I figured out I can’t take it with a meal because that will cause sedation. I thought it was the Geodon causing the sedation but it was because I took all of my morning meds after breakfast, including the Seroquel. Then there was Neurontin which made me manic, which was kind of fun but it was starting to become dangerous. Ahh meds can’t live with them, can’t live without them. I’m on a good mix now that I figured out how to take them. 
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When I was first hospitalized they gave me a Prolixin injection and I had a dystonic reaction… I felt like I was paralyzed for about 2 days and had really bad aphasia and was babbling a lot. Thorazine raised my liver enzymes too high. Trilafon used to make my legs very restless. Risperdal for the past 12 years has been the best for me so far and Prolixin was by far the worst. I am extremely careful not to mix up my wife’s Prolixin with my meds 
If I were going to switch to something else I would probably next try Zyprexa since my brother tolerates it really well. Right now I feel it’s good for me to be a little unhappy if it will help me tweak my habits towards more functional ones.
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thank the lord jesus i dont have kindey stones as a side effect. wow count my blessings, please jesus no never
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i wish i had the dopamine levels you to to be outgoing
Crystal meth is the most screwed up drug you’ll ever touch. Never again. I mean it.
It is paid in full by having to deal with other nasty ■■■■. Nothing is free
haloperidol and rispiridone. haloperidol made me sleep like a zombie and rispiridone gave me td. am going back on depixol on tuesday and waiting till october to try something new. either amilsulpride or abilify and gabapentin. not sure which yet. doubt any of them will work but i have to eliminate all of them to prove i’m not mentally ill and this was hypnotically induced.
Are you referring to a form of trauma based mind control?
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Worst medicine EVER?
Buckley’s Mixture.
It’s like a sheet lightning enema for your throat and sinuses. NOT kidding.
Worst SZ med ever… Zyprexa. Best way I know to pack on several hundred pounds and become diabetic damn near instantly. Still think the inventors of it deserve life imprisonment.
10-96
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Abilify. I tried it twice. Same problem both times.
I literally could not pee or poop. It completely shut down my plumbing. I couldn’t even go sitting down. That’s how desperate I was to go. Doc said “it’s probably nerves” both times. After the second time I told him I wouln’t take it anymore.
And Topamax. Gave me stroke-like symptoms. Eyes moving involuntarily, feeling like I’m falling, brain zaps. Bad stuff.
Well obviously I have to say abilify because it gave me gastroparesis but if we dont count that, then it would be that one med I took that started with a L (luvox maybe?) but it gave me such bad vertigo I couldn’t lift my head off my pillow. I was clutching the sides of my bed so hard I thought I would be thrown around.
Haldol!
Even when I was psychotic, I learned to yell out, I’m allergic to that!
I was briefly on Zyprexa and gained 30 pounds that have Never come off.
The logo for it
always reminded me of the fat person you will become if you touch the stuff.
I went off cold turkey and said try something different!
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thats pretty daggum funny lol