Whats your favorite antipsychotic with low side effects

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  • Abilify
  • Resperidone
  • Geodon
  • Haldol
  • Invega
  • None
  • It’s all the same

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I tried 4 AP. Zyprexa, Risperdone, Abilify and Latuda. Best is Latuda > Zyprexa > Risperdone > Abilify.

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Why is abilify right at the bottom, @Aziz?

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I developed serious side effects according to my psychiatrist. He said they only occure in some people and are hard to diagnose. Gambling issues, hypersexuality, drug use and compulsive shopping. They all stopped when I switched to Latuda.

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I have a big heart, I love them all. Me and risperidone are friends with benefits.

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Really? How do you crack all those jokes on risperdal? I functioned so poorly on it.

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Risperdone is ok but it gave tics like in the eye.
My eyes would contantly shiver when I was on it.

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Different people can react differently to the same drug. There’s no guarantee that a drug that works well for one person will work the same for another person even if they have similar problems.

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Resperidone worked really well for me me back in the day…
Invega sustenna gave me really bad akathasia though…
Abilify is okay
It’s my second day today
I think it takes about two weeks before I feel the full effects

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I was on Prolixen first, for about twenty years. Made me real tired. Paradoxically, it made me tired during the day but I couldn’t fall asleep.
For a period of time I was living by myself and bored out of my mind and I just wanted to take a nap so using my best thinking and decision making, I figured Prolixen was a tranquilizer so I used to take an extra 5 mg’s in the hopes it would work like a sleeping pill. Uh, didn’t work, the results were brutal.

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Invega’s the best but the 3 major side effects it has (weight gain, male breasts, diabetes) are horrible.

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I kind of LOVE abilify.

It has apparently STOPPED my voices

And I don’t have diabetes

And my prolactin is not sky rocketing, so far…

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good thing I am extremely skinny and actually need to gain weight!!!

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So far I love it too!
It’s been a game changer for me
And has helped my autistic struggles!

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I’m so happy to hear that for you!

May it continue that way!

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My favorite antipsychotic is Clozapine. I have had some weight gain and drowsiness but it helps with the voices.

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My favourite AP is amisulpride the one I’m on now. It really helped me get stable and I’ve tried other meds but always returned to taking it. I’ve been on it for almost seven years now.

Next best AP was risperidone. It worked just as well. I took it from 2005-2007 then stopped meds for five years and was in remission but relapsed in 2012.

Olanzapine comes next. When I first took it i was a bit like a zombie but I discovered a few years ago with my pdoc at the time that a low dose along with my amisulpride helped a lot with depression

I took sulpiride for a week in hospital but don’t know how much it would have worked because they switched me to amisulpride

Other AP’S I was on were haloperidol, quetiapine (Seroquel) and clozapine but they didn’t work for me. The clozapine gave me severe side effects so I stopped it. The other two didn’t work at all.

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Abilify has been the best AP for me. I took it in tablet form until I could no longer get the tablets for free (have no insurance), so now I am on the Abilify Maintena depot shot. It still works quite well, even if I do have to take 5-10 mg/day of oral Haldol in addition to it. I have had no noticeable side effects from Abilify.

Besides Abilify, Abilify Maintena and Haldol, I have also been on Zyprexa, Risperdal, Seroquel and Latuda. Zyprexa used to be my go-to AP, even though it caused weight gain, but now it gives me awful akathisia, to the point that I cannot sleep on it. Same goes for Risperdal and Seroquel. Latuda just left me terribly flat, like scary/creepy flat, hated it. Haldol has side effects, too, but they are bearable. The worst with that is a stiff neck, but the Cogentin takes care of that.

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Latuda. For the first few weeks I had horrible nausea, and it slightly worsens my td.
But other than that, it’s the best med I’ve been on.

It doesn’t blunt my emotions, it doesn’t worsen my negatives, it helps the positives greatly, and it keeps me stable. I’m happier when I’m on Latuda than when I was on other meds.

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