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Originally Posted by SlumberKitty
I had a good T session last night with Julieanne. I think she got more of where I was coming from. It's kind of hard when one is having some psychosis to explain to someone else what is going on, especially when one isn't too sure oneself! She told me I have been destabilizing this month (and Pdoc and I lowered one of the AP's this month--Latuda) so this morning I started the process to get a sooner appointment with him. It looks like mid July. So I can go back up on that medication. It feels like a defeat or a failure to me because I was trying to get off some medication but we didn't really discuss that too much last night. We did some reality testing and stuff like that. T was very nice and encouraging and also....realistic I think about some of my expectations that might not be realistic. So that was good. It was a good session. I wish they could all be that good!
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I’ve been on all sorts of doses from zero to ten of Abilify…..what’s I e found is that 7.5 works for me but with some side effects like weight gain…..still not messing with it all the time I feel better. Now I’ve added some supplements but now ten years later the meds aren’t changing. Sometimes the tweaking fails but it’s not your fault. I’ve been off meds and felt horrible when I had to go back on, like I let down my treatment team and myself . I have so little psychosis that if anyone could go off it would be me and yet I can’t. Part of me is kinda anti med like I don’t even like taking cold medicine but the rest realizes I’m better off with these meds and in fact lucky to have them.
For you if you had the olanzapine you might have been ok but changing two meds at once was probably a mistake by the pdoc.