in fact my pdoc prescribed me xeroquel when i cant sleep. but in the day after it take i feel less sensible so i dont like it. plus, i dont want to be on two aps really… but i find myself less paranoid and less anxoius with the xeroquel… zyprexa doesnt help me on this much…
is it strange that i find xeroquel better against paranoia and anxiety and even against obsessive dark thoughts? how is it for you?
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IMO risperidone is the best ap, i took it 3 or 4 years ago. For now i take abilify but i also have anxiety. And i will ask my pdoc to give me back risperidone, it’s good also for sleep, i was taking in the evening this ap.
I went through a meds change when I was on Olazapine. Took it for two years but couldn’t tolerate the side-effects.
Some drugs work better on different people. It took three different drugs and a hospitalisation to get on Latuda.
invega is almost like risperdione isn’t it @oneway88? oh my gosh… I felt relieved today this evening. I even felt joy, I felt this easy of living and not only my dark obsessive thoughts. ill still try to go with the Zyprexa cause I didn’t like the side effects of the others aps but I still live like an hermite since years. maybe ill try to introduce 25 mg of Seroquel in the future if it will help me with my anxiety,paranoia or even with my negative symptoms… its one pdoc who told me that its my obsessive thoughts who are taking me my energy, I am still like a zombie and I cant get rid of them…
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Not sure for paranoia but gabapentin (not an ap) is great for social anxiety. In my view the best med out there for that.
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@Anna1 you wanted opinions, right? So i will go for risperidone because i have anxiety and i want to say that this ap changed me, in a good way i mean. Before taking this med i was having paranoia thaughts, i was very scared like everyone wanted to kill me etc And i can say that this ap risperidone saved me. This is just my opinion
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ok, I see thank you. but me I have other symptoms so I am not sure about changing meds. my pdoc didn’t want me to switch the last time. in fact, yesterday I took much klonopin so maybe I feel better today because of it and not because of the xeroquel…
I tried invega in the past, I was anxious on it…
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Have you looked into any of the old school AP’s? Stelazine gave me relief for a while. Perphenazine wasn’t horrible either.
there is no cure for schizophrenia but haloperidol is the best med I’ve tried.
I’ve tried fanapt, latuda, risperidone, seroquel, zyprexa, haloperidol, geodon and probably more. the next best one is risperidone more expensive more visual hallucinations.
In order for an ap to work on my anxiety and paranoia I have to get so heavily bombed by the drug that I am barely alive. I’m satisfied if ap’s just control my psychosis. Right now I am taking Seroquel and Geodon, and they control my psychosis.
you do know they haven’t a clue what the long term effects of antipsychotic polypharmacy are? pp is when you take 2 or more meds.
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Thanks for telling me that. I didn’t know. It keeps seeming like I am getting a premature dementia. I’m 58, and I’m already having to search for words, and I keep losing my train of thought.
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I’d tell them I didn’t consent to be studied for a medical experiment. maybe talk to a lawyer.
Both Abilify and risperidone took away my paranoia. Personally I much preferred risperidone because I got a bajillion awful side effects on Abilify that I didn’t get on risperidone, plus Abilify only worked on my paranoia and nothing else whereas risperidone improved everything.
Those meds aren’t really made to combat social anxiety though.
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I have been taking one caffeine pill 12 ¾ hours before sleep just to get blood to my brain so I can have a conversation. it takes 45 minutes to digest and has a half life of 6 hours. the generic store brand ones work the best.
I take two 200 mg caffeine pills a day, but that is more like a crutch than therapy.
clozapine is best ap for treatment resistant paranoia