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Originally Posted by shadow2000
Hi,
As the above poster wrote, I think that it would be best to get an opinion from another professional if you think that you might have been misdiagnosed. It sounds like you experienced some form of psychosis, but to get another opinion, you'd need to have a professional evaluate you and come to a conclusion as to whether or not the experience that you had was related to hypothermia. I will say that the manual that mental health professionals here in the U.S. use to diagnose schizophrenia specifies that symptoms must be present in a person for at least six months for a diagnosis of the disorder to be made, but if a person experiencing psychotic symptoms receives effective treatment shortly after the symptoms present themselves and continues to receive the treatment for the next six months, it can be hard to know if the symptoms would have continued during the six-month period without treatment. If you don't mind me asking, are you still receiving treatment of any sort? And if you're not receiving treatment, how long did you receive it for? Along the lines of what I've written, I'm not qualified to say what might have caused you to experience the things that you did during the winter of 2013/2014, but as far as schizophrenia itself is concerned, you might want to question whether or not that specific diagnosis was correct if you fully recovered from the symptoms that you experienced in less than six months and also weren't receiving any treatment during part of this time.
I hope that you'll find at least some of what I've written here to be helpful.
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In January of that year I was admitted to the hospital, I stayed 3 weeks. The medicine, the antipsychotic, made me more sick. I remember having alot of difficulty walking the longer I was on it in the hospital. As soon as I could get away with it I stopped taking it, as it did nothing at all but the adverse side effects (antipsychotics I have heard recently can actually make hypothermia worse). Later that year in October I was readmitted, after October, I recovered. A full 2 years later (one full year off any medicine whatsoever) I have had a full recovery.
I have since learned that I have hypokalemia (low potassium). It turns out, hypokalemia is caused by hypothermia in 2 different ways. But also, hypokalemia can cause schizophrenia like symptoms.
Something that bothers me is how I am always cold. I was told to take off my winter jacket recently because it was 60 degrees outside. I felt as if it was chilly.