Who here has a low dose of antipsychotics without too side effets

Who here has a low dose of antipsychotics without too side effets ?

My most low dose of drug was 2,5 mg of abilify in monotherapy and i was well with it for treated my paranoid schizophrenia. After i do cold turkey of this 2,5 mg of abilify daily and i do a psychosis and i had a little problem with police and now i am forced by the Law to take abilify 400 maintena and 2000 mg of depakote and cymbalta 30 and buspirone 20 and 200 mg of loxapine !!!

I call by phone yesterday the Law service of my insurance for pay the service of an jurist and i want to do a trial ok my psychiatrist because he give me too drugs. I can have 20 000 euros in justice fee to help to pay a jurist with this insurance. I pay 8,50 euros monthly for this insurance.

Chatgpt tell me that i have good chance to win the trial !

Thanks you for yours answers :+1::heart:

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I just had my dose reduced a month and a half ago. I think its 300 mg. I believe thats the recommended lowest dose on that med.

I have few side effects.

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Do you take abilify 300 maintena or others for 300 mg ?

Have you Sides effects with your treatment ? Like weight gain ?

Does abilify 200 maintena or abilify 160 maintena exists un usa ?

See you soon.

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Whoops I meant to say. Yes, Abilify maintena. I have weight issues but, no more than I had on other APs. Honestly, Invega seemed much worse in the weight gain department. I have a feeling my weight issues are more related to my own habits rather than Abilify.

I have ot go. I can answer any other questions you have in about a half hour.

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My weight was 137 kilos before and now 108.3 kilos just today. I loss this weight with 2 hours of daily walk and i count my calories now with a scale with 2600 or 2700 calories daily and i limit the salt and stopped the white sugar. White sugar is a booster of hungry.

Before i estimate to ate 4000 calories daily when my weight was 137 kilos.

My dream is to weight 90 kilos for 183 cm. The weight i had before 32 years. I was very muscled when i weighted 90 kilos.

I think also that inactivity and too eat was the problem. i have unemployed since i have ill. Before i worked in a wood factory it was a very hard job with huge weight to lift.

When i’ll to go in my new home in two months i want to do one hour of home bicycle and 30 minutes daily of rowing machine merach r50 and my two hours of walk be sure.

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Do you work @Bowens ? In France schizophren are not incitations to work because i have 1300 euros monthly of social help to do nothing and a worker gain 1600 euros. But if i work i’ll must spend 200 euros for my car.

But i am sure that in the future i’ll work because french economy is failling now.

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My side effects got balanced after taking 20mg ARIPIPRAZOLE. Now there is no evidence of side effects. But initial days I had severe issues like while a sleep just before I fall into sleep I Shiver like the entire bed wobbles. Just like a electrocution. The severe drooling. Man I am out of that.

I started working again in late March of this year. I am currently working part time.

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Ok and for what job ? Me if i work i want part time also.

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Picking for Amazon.

Im not sure what to do about my current situation, though, because the extra income disqualifies me for the “extra help” program with medicare which helps with prescription drug costs. About half or more of the additional income gets eaten up by drug costs that I would not have to pay if I were not working.

So I guess the solution would either be to work more hours to compensate( I can only work so many though without it impacting disability) or quit.

Either that or I can keep spinning my wheels and get limited benefit from working.

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You have courage. You are a good man.

In France they are ESAT it’s factory for handicaped people but i prefer work in normal job.

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I appreciate that @frenchman

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I’m on a low dose of Olanzapine (5mg) definitely less side effects than when i was taking 20 mg.

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It’s normal !:+1:

I was farmer between 2000 and 2002 but when i was already a few paranoïd because it’s m’y nature. I stopped agriculture because i don’t want to have debts with my bank.

I worked also before to be farmer in a cheese factory between 16 and 21 years old and between 2002 and 2008 in a factory to be welder or in a wood factory or also in a factory that do walls with foam inside for surgery rooms of chipsets factory the walls with foam inside was made.

I have 49 years old butt i worked just 11 years in my entire life.

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I’m on a medium dose of Cobenfy right now. It got bumped up a bit as my positives are more pronounced this month. Worst issue with it is boy my mouth is so dry from it. Sipping water constantly to cope. Otherwise, no big.

Have you lose weight with cobenfy ?

So for you ? Does cobenfy is better or not versus your former antipsychotics ?

amazing that you can work. Im doing voluntary work at the moment., I’'d say a job for me is not possible.

the higher the dose, the more sleepy drowsy. and brain fog

Yes, but I’m also on Wegovy.

Worse, but my situation doesn’t apply to anyone else here. I’m also on Levodopa and Carbidopa that increase dopamine.