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Hello! Since my psychosis in October 2023, I have felt empty in my head, my emotions flattened, joyless, and listless. I isolate myself very much and can no longer have conversations. My creativity is also completely gone. does anyone know these symptoms?
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I'm sorry you're experiencing this. I often feel the same way. The meds that help with the extreme highs and lows often leave me feeling flat. Did you feel this way before the psychosis? Did your pdoc change your meds any to help with the psychosis? I often find that meds can cause or worsen flat empy feelings.
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The med thing is a valid point, but also after a major manic/psychotic episode the brain does need some time to recuperate and things may seem dull and foggy for a bit.
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now I am just doing my business and being on line with forums and friends. bizi __________________ lamictal 2x a day haldol 2x a day cogentin 2x a day klonipin , 1mg at night, fish oil coq10 multi vit,, vit c, at noon, tumeric, caffeine Remeron at night, zyprexa, requip2-4mg |
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I had major anhedonia after my biggest psychosis event in 2015. It turned out that anhedonia was caused by Risperdal which was given to me during my inpatient stay to treat psychosis. When in 2016 an outpatient psychiatrist switched me from Risperdal to Geodon, anhedonia was gone and creativity returned full force within literally a couple of days and I wrote some of my best pieces, prose and poetry, that month.
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What did they do with your meds?. When I was on geodon it quit working after many years of being on it. __________________ lamictal 2x a day haldol 2x a day cogentin 2x a day klonipin , 1mg at night, fish oil coq10 multi vit,, vit c, at noon, tumeric, caffeine Remeron at night, zyprexa, requip2-4mg |
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Thanks for asking. 2018 was my last inpatient stay. I had more between 2015 and 2018. In 2017 I wrongly concluded that Geodon caused dyskinesia that quickly resolved and went off of it. Many things were tried. During my past readmission in 2018 that you asked about, I was put on Clozapine as the last resort medication. I was discharged. Clozapine caused deep depression to the point of my being immobilized even at the lowest dose. That is why I begudgingly started using Zyprexa as monotherapy maintenance, begrusgibgly because it caused weight gain.
Several years later, to curb weight gain, I switched to Latuda. However, Latuda erased my libido and flattened me. After more than a year on it, I switched back to Geodon but added Seroquel for sleep. I had to use Seroquel with Latuda as well. Geodon works now and miraculously, at only 40 mg, much less than I had taken before. But sometimes medications stop working after several years. It happened to me, too, with Trazodone for sleep. After 2.5 years, it stopped working. Raising the dose did not help. So I am very sorry that Geodon stopped working for you. __________________ Bipolar I w/psychotic features Last inpatient stay in 2018 Geodon 40 mg Seroquel 75 mg Gabapentin 1200 mg+Vitamin B-complex (against extrapyramidal side effects) Long term side effects from medications, some of them discontinued: - hypothyroidism - obesity BMI ~ 38 |
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