[ariatboot]

My pdoc started me on Fanapt in January. She added it to two anti-seizer meds I was taking because I was having some major issues with anger and my mood just wasn’t what it needed to be. It has worked great for my mood. For the first time since I was diagnosed I am feeling some relief from the never ending depression but I never really liked the way the medicine made me feel and I couldn’t figure out why. On Wednesday she upped my does again and now I have figured it out. This medicine, while it is great for helping with anger and shutting down those feeling, it has also shut down all other feelings. I am having a hard time feeling joy, happiness, love, sympathy and a whole lot more. I just don’t feel. It's not a numb feeling it's just a dead feeling.

I just don’t know how to tell her this. She thinks she has finally got my meds figured out after working on it for 4 years. Because she just upped my dose on Wednesday I'm afraid to call her so soon after that and say I am noticing this. And then I'm afraid she is going to think I'm crazy for saying I can’t feel anything at all.

I don’t know what to do. Maybe I should give the med another week or so to work? I don’t see her again for another 6 weeks and I so want this med to work. But I don’t think I can go on living with no feelings for very much longer. It like walking around deflated. I really need some input here because I can’t decide what to do.

Maybe if you give her a call just to give her the heads up that you are having this effect (and I understand you in dead vs numb, btw) and though you realize it is early on, and will give it more of a chance, it's something to be aware of and to keep an eye on. That way, she realizes you may need to see her before the 6 weeks.

[AniManiac]

Lack of affect is not at all uncommon. Tell the pdoc - I guarantee she has heard it before. There is probably another option for you (dosage adjustment, different med) that will help without causing this dead feeling.