This disease has been around for over 70 years since the early 1950s it is not possible for people to continue to suffer from this damn disease from a disease that no one put a stripe on we live in 2021 it is no longer possible for people to continue to suffer from serious diseases nowadays humans need to invent something more effective than drugs . I suffer from mild schizophrenia but I am taking a drug that is very difficult for me called paliperdone I could not tolerate it from the first moment I started it makes me feel and pain constantly bad countless awakenings in sleep I take it for over 3 years I continue to take it because you did a DNA test and it was found Best suited to me I have been searching the internet for two years now if the drug companies on the FDA website have created desperate new drugs and not come out one good new drug that will make me finally great and beat this horrible disease is my dream.
Welcome to the forum @Davido .
I guess thereâs a lot of diseases for which thereâs no cure and schizophrenia is unfortunately one of those.
I wish they had a clue what causes it though. That way it could maybe be prevented in the future.
Those DNA tests are worthless in my opinion.
If your med isnât suiting you donât be afraid to have a discussion with your doctor about trying something else.
This disease has been around a lot longer than 70 years. Just our meds 70 years. I agree our treatment has hardly made any progress in those 70 years. They started off with âtypical antipsychoticsâ. Now we have âatypical antipsychoticsâ. Therapy, and almost nothing else besides sarcosine, and a hypothesis of we can possibly be taking $100 worth of cbd each day to help our symptoms . Woopty doo.
I have been trying to work with the doctor to decipher for over 3 years which drug will make me feel best I feel very desperate you have been before with Clopixol I felt very good with her but she would make me very restless and aggressive and sleep was good and I suffered from akathisia and with Paliperidone I am more relaxed and have no symptoms like these side effects but completely different I am afraid that if I replace this drug I will suffer from side effects similar to Clopixol.
Everyone is different and the brain is the most complicated things I know of. Everyone reacts differently to the various medications available, Iâve read about people that tried drugs with good results, but that didnât work for me or had side effects. You just gotta keep trying different meds. I been on numerous meds. Anti-anxiety, Anti-depressants and anti-psychotics. Right now Latuda is working wonders for me, but Iâve read about others who canât tolerate it. In large part it is trial and error, or guess and check.
Edit: You can read everything on the Internet about the various medications and peoples experiences with them but the only way you will know if it works for you is to try it.
I feel my body is here but my head is somewhere else it is very hard for me to think and remember things I have no real sense of understanding of words only a person who takes this drug and suffer from these symptoms can understands this I also took countless drugs too and especially 2 drugs over the years the Clopixol I took almost 12 years and not I had these feelings and my cognitive abilities were good and amazing only at times
I know what causes this disease but it is still not so clear to me I once had a dream that explains exactly what it is a kind of viruses that the immune system body attack the brain belonging to this disease I even saw exactly how they looked this dream burned in my mind forever this dream seems like it took from a movie the 50s or 60s on color with the previous drug my head was much clearer in thinking and the dreams were clearer
I agree with @Headspark .
Meds are all personal trial and error.
Weâre no longer being lobotomized or subjected to insulin shock therapy. Most of us live in our communities with supports. Some of us are successful enough to support families and provide supports for others. Maybe thereâs no cure yet, but â like with diabetes â the opportunities for managing the disease are better for us than at any time in history.
Itâs a good time to be alive.
Why did you stop taking clopixol?
She stopped influencing me like she used to. And would make me very aggressive
Uh, sure. Youâve noticed we donât all have polio now? Know any families that have had polio lately? No? Thank big pharma.
Canât decide if thatâs delusional, stupid, or both. This is completely whack. Just no.
Get a med adjustment and stop posting rubbish.
When sz affects more of the population or a bunch of rich/famous people, the treatment will advance, but like others have said itâs better now than itâs ever been,we take meds, some seek therapy or exercise and healthy eating habits as well and many of us converse here on a forum instead of feeling all alone. Also mental health in general is becoming less stigmatized in certain parts of the world and being taken seriously.
Also mental health in general is becoming less stigmatized in certain parts of the world and being taken seriously.
Youâre right this happening just recently and itâs a good thing 
@lofifunk I think youâre right at least to some degree. Schizophrenia only affects 1% of the population, itâs not worth the investment to drug companies.
Yeah, over the past 6 years the FDA has approved only two new drugs and even 1 of them is just an improvement of a older drug
We need an NFL quarterback, or a popular singer to develop schizophrenia to draw attention to the illness. A well-known, and respected public figure who could be a spokesperson
Iâm sure the drug companies would be scrambling over each other, to be famous for curing someoneâs illness of that stature
And then there will be a big movie, a tv series on Netflix, and people posting #schizopride on Facebook lol, but in all seriousness I hope for more research into this illness.
Lmao!! The #schizpride was classic 
It is a fascinating illness, for sure. I would think there would be greater development in this area, even if out of curiosity. They have come a long way though , I have to admit
They should be covering CBD financially. Maybe they donât want people cured.