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Originally Posted by WeepingWillow23
Unfortunately, what you're asking is basically for us to predict the future. I wish I could tell you that you'll be completely fine in X amount of time, but the brain really doesn't work that way. It depends upon how susceptible you are to marijuana, how much was built up in your system over how long, how long it takes your body to metabolise etc etc etc.
The worst case scenario is that you never get back to exactly how you were before. Unfortunately that is the reality for some. The good news is that they are in the minority and you should keep improving with time, hopefully.
I wish this went without saying, but IME it doesn't, you really should stay away from marijuana and all other drugs in the future in case you get worse. Unfortunately there's no way to know who will be the ones who can take drugs recreationally and be fine, and who will develop lifelong MH problems, and who will be in between those two extremes. Best not to gamble, IMO.
Also, as an FYI, remeron/mirtazapine is a tetracyclic antidepressant, not an antipsychotic, which seems an odd choice if you were diagnosed with drug-induced psychosis, unless they thought your issues were more depressive driven, idk?? Anyway, the important thing is that it is helping you.
I hope that you are able to get back to how you were before this experience 
*Willow* |
To be more clear here, I was actually on seroquel for the sedative properties at the time of the episode 6 weeks ago , I recovered fairly quickly from the main symptoms (same as I described in original post just not as bad it was more just over analysing some paranoia) I didn't actually tell the doctor specifically at this stage that I had marijuana a few days before the episode he only new that I quit more then 30 days ago I had actually also had a previous episode of psychosis years before that was misdiagnosed as bipolar the antidepressant I was given at that time made me 10x worse gave the impression that I was manic years later this was dismissed by a different psychiatrist as drug induced psychosis (weed).. so I was taken of epilim but stayed on Seroquel
At the time the doctor seen me 6 weeks ago he said that he was not certain that it was psychosis but he just said it's possible as you said that you've had psychosis years ago and I agreed I stayed on the seroquel made a full recovery with in 2 weeks of the episode starting.. anyway a week or so later I decided myself to stop the seroquel 100mg cold turkey due to i could not keep an erection (new gf) this where things slowly started to become worse an worse for me this is where the symptoms in the first post slowly started to creep in to it got really bad so I we tried back to the doctor explained that I had stopped the seroquel cold turkey he was kind of frustrated no surprise there, at that point he gave me the option to either go back on seroquel or go on remeron I choose remeron as I had already gone through the hard yards of seroquel withdrawal...
I said to him again do you think it's psychosis he said possibly as you've had it before he then answered a further question of mine is avanza an anti psychotic he said it sort of is or something I don't really remember his answer
Obviously next visit on the 26th I need to be fully honest now that the recent psychosis was marijuana that I vaped that caused the episode after having a tolerance break
Also I have no plans on using marijuana again I have not used it since the time of the recent episode which was 6 weeks ago in some ways I wish I never had that tolerance break but oh well hopefully I will get through all of this just being the second psychotic episode is kind of a worry that I won't recover even tho I can say for sure the episode that was misdiagnosed as bipolar was many times worse so I do have some hope I think you have to..
Do you think I should start taking seroquel again? I've been on seroquel remeron combination once before about 5 months ago, also the doc did give me a choice of remeron or seroquel
I'm worrying because of xmas coming up fast I want to be in a pretty good state for xmas day, meeting the girl friends family