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Originally Posted by AspiringAuthor
I was misdx'd with SchizoAff, but my correct dx is BP I w/psychotic features. I definitely only have psychosis during mood episodes.
I have run out of options, do not want clozapine because I am already 100lbs overeight, do not want to try Thorazine because of the high propensity to EPS and because it gave my late mom a tardive facial tic, and probably will go the ECT route next. Will see the pdoc today about it.
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I think ECT is da bomb. Long-term ECT (um, I was in a long-term facility) ‘cracked’ me open. Not fully, at first, but gradually. My DX now is the same as yours.
I’ve never had a weight-gain problem with any med, I’ve been in situations where 8 out of 10 people (including myself in that 8) were Thorazined up and I’ve only seen one case of tartive dyskinesia.
Let us know about the ECT.
I gotta sleep.