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Tart Cherry Jam
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Default Jan 17, 2024 at 08:48 PM
 
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Originally Posted by Rall19 View Post
With regards to the axis dx I’m confuse as to why my psychiatrist would completely change my diagnosis. I can only think it may be different in UK.. My original diagnosis of Schizophrenia was given very quickly could it have been wrong?
These two Axes are orthogonal. It is not a complete change of the dx but an addition of a new Axis.

You said the original dx of schizophrenia was given very quickly. Was it in context of an inpatient stay? Were you hallucinating, having delusions, having a psychotic break? If the symptoms are severe, acute and obvious enough, the schizophrenia diagnosis can be given quickly and yet be correct. It is more for bipolar affective disorder that one needs time observing the patient in different phases of the disorder to arrive at a fitting dx. But bipolar is an episodic illness by its nature.

Are you on an antipsychotic medication? What are you currently taking? What is your rx?

I agree you need to see your psychiatrist again soon.

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Bipolar I w/psychotic features
Last inpatient stay in 2018

Geodon 40 mg
Seroquel 75 mg
Lybalvi 5 mg as a PRN

Gabapentin 1200 mg, Vitamin B-complex (against extrapyramidal side effects)

Long term side effects from medications some of them discontinued:
- hypothyroidism
- obesity

Suspected narcolepsy

Treated with Ritalin 5mg
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