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Old Apr 18, 2013, 06:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Alonewithmycat View Post
so I've been in the hospital (Not mental hospital) for 8 days due to being suicidal.

For the past eight days my medications were:
clonazepam 0.5mg, cipralex (lexapro) 10mg and seroquel 25mg in the morning and clonazepam 0.5mg and seroquel 50mg at night.

this was for aspergers syndrome, OCD, depression, anxiety, severe irritability and agitation, hearing voices (Not my intrusive thoughts but schizophrenic auditory hallucinations which i cant tell (sometimes) if they're real or not) and fatigue.

After seeing a psychiatrist for the first time today, he says that i still have those problems but is not sure if i have aspergers syndrome and will have to get a better evaluation on that. He says that my problem is mainly my OCD and that i should stay in the hospital for another 1-2 weeks and have my medications changed to;

Clonazepam 0.5mg twice a day as usual, fluoxatine (not sure how much) and risperidone 1 or 2mg.

the seroquel helped with the agitation a bit and a lot during the night. do you think the newer anti-psychotic will be better because im critical of the very small dosage compared to the 75mg of seroquel a day before. I'm 16 and had no reaction to the cipralex.

thanks for helping.

Im sorry we cant tell you which antipsychotics will work better for you. only you and your treatment providers can say that because everyone reacts differently to medications..

my suggestion talk with the hospital people that are treating you. they will tell you why they prescribed the meds you are on and whether they will work better for you. after all they are the ones that are treating you and your health issues.
Thanks for this!
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