Who Here is off of antipsychotics?

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I crashed into psychosis the second time after reducing ads …. Wouldn’t do that again.

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How many episodes have you had and how many attempts?

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I’ve had SZ for over a quarter century. I’ve lost count. I can just tell you that every attempt made things worse somehow and was not in any way worth it.

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I am scared of the consequences of quitting aps one more time. But feel I need to give it a try.

I’m doing okay at the moment and wouldn’t want to get worse.

Only two weeks into a reduction to 5mg Olanzapine. Would hate to go back on a higher dose and go through all of that again.

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How many episodes have you had?

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Yeah that about sums it up. I never had really bad side effects, until October when I developed TD. So I haven’t noticed much difference since being on different meds, but it is nice that the TD has eased off.

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So how long have you been off of aps now?

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Started the taper october 17, ended june 20

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How many episodes have you had previously?

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I wonder if they will ever do magic mushrooms or LSD for schizoaffective/schizophrenia as treatment. I have taken LSD a ton of times and it didn’t do anything at all…but it did work when mixed with MDMA. I think because I have been through so many episodes I’m sorta episode resistant now. More research should be done on how to stop episodes from recurring/instead of masking the symptoms. Abilify is prob the most advanced medication as far as I know but I still dont quite get how it works…and I think its making me physically sick…sleep apnea/blood clots/fatigue/possible cancer. Since being put on Aristada I have gained another 50 pounds. I’m considering weight loss surgery, but it wouldn’t be worth it if I stayed on Aristada. So I’ll have to stop taking it…

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Probably the drugs that caused your schizophrenia…. Mine was triggered by drugs

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Uh, no. They’re proven to make psychosis worse.

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It actually wasn’t. I was diagnosed when I was fifteen. I was an intelligent HS student and never drank/used anything…it was trying to fix the schizophrenia that led me to experimentation…

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Was just watching a youtube video about how magic mushrooms are considered to be used to help with PTSD, Depression, anxiety well…everything but schizophrenia I guess…

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I will never go off aps again… Last time I ended up in homeless living in my car and selling my body for a place to stay… It was awful

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Itcs really hard to say. I went 10 years before seeking treatment, and in that time i had periods where i did better and periods where I did worse. Since being treated, I have only had two episodes, but one was directly caused by a head injury, and the other was directly caused by being unable to sleep for 7 days straight. Both of those things would have caused an episode even in a neurotypical person.

But my hallucinations started at age 14, directly coinciding with developing a brain tumor. So I am far from a typical case. Most people who hallucinate do not have brain tumors.

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And i would like to add that since i just finished my taper 2 weeks ago, I have no idea if I will be successful. It takes 8 weeks for the last of the meds to leave your body, so I’m not even technically AP free yet.

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Every time I stopped taking my meds I ended up back in the hospital.

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I hope I dont have a brain tumor. I always wondered/but I dont think there was one found. The tinnitus also coincided with developing psychosis.

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Did you ever get an MRI or CT scan? Those are pretty standard first steps when developing psychosis.