[Manarinorange]

This thread is about my son. I was posting on the schizophrenia board but I was told to post here bc there's barely any ppl on there and I have BP 1.

My son is 28 and developed schizophrenia at age 19. It was a lot of psychotic breaks and hospitalizations. Very hard to see him go through that.

Possible trigger:

About 4 years ago he hit me in the head with a hammer while I was sleeping. He was in the middle of a delusion. He spent a couple months in jail and we weren't allowed any contact during that time. It was really difficult not to be able to talk with him. I missed him horribly. He was put in a group home after his jail time. He started acting out in it about 6 months ago. They put him in the hospital and he was there for 2 months. I won't let him come back to live with me bc I know he will eventually start smoking weed again and stop taking his meds. I guarantee that will happen bc when he would get out of the hospitals when he was living here, he would stay off of it for awhile and then he would force me to buy it. He would get violent if I didn't let him. Anyway my sister and I finally found him a better fit than the group home. We'll now he's acting out there and they are going to move him to their main branch. We had an overnight visit about a month ago and he ended up throwing a big chair. So for now no more overnight visits. He can come in the day. It's really difficult bc I struggle with an extreme amount of anxiety. He's always wanting money or for us to get panda express bc it's his favorite and this month I'm really short on money and can't afford it.

So I guess I'm looking for support in dealing with him. It's very difficult and sad.

[Victoria'smom]

I have schizo affective basically both schizophrenia and bipolar 1. My child also has many mental health issues and is treatment resistant. She's on 6 different psych meds. My child has not been violent to me. She takes it out on herself. I was noncompliant when medicine is not working for me. Have they ever tried injections? They're every 1-6 months.

[Manarinorange]

Originally Posted by Victoria'smom

I have schizo affective basically both schizophrenia and bipolar 1. My child also has many mental health issues and is treatment resistant. She's on 6 different psych meds. My child has not been violent to me. She takes it out on herself. I was noncompliant when medicine is not working for me. Have they ever tried injections? They're every 1-6 months.

Yes, he was on the invega injection. It made him have no testosterone. Right now he's on 600 mgs of seroquel and 15 mgs of invega pill form and zoloft and gabapentin. Oh and also cogentin. I think that's all.

[Victoria'smom]

If he doesn't have a bad reaction to abilify that may be an option.

[bizi]

Originally Posted by Victoria'smom

If he doesn't have a bad reaction to abilify that may be an option.

I got manic with abilify...
just saying....
bizi

[Manarinorange]

Originally Posted by Victoria'smom

If he doesn't have a bad reaction to abilify that may be an option.

Abilify made him even angrier.

[raspberrytorte]

I have schizoaffective BP type like Victoria'smom. For seven years they had me on the haldol injection and it worked like a charm. No delusions or episodes really (besides maybe a bit of depression here and there) or paranoia. Is that an option for your son?

[Manarinorange]

Originally Posted by raspberrytorte

I have schizoaffective BP type like Victoria'smom. For seven years they had me on the haldol injection and it worked like a charm. No delusions or episodes really (besides maybe a bit of depression here and there) or paranoia. Is that an option for your son?

I can talk about it with him but he's very afraid of akathisia bc he witnessed me having it and so he's scared of that as well as eps symptoms.

[Manarinorange]

My son is moving to the new facility on Monday. I really hope it works out for him. I fell just heartbroken that this is his life. At the place he's at they go on outings like going to the lake, bowling, going to a place that makes really good strawberry milkshakes and he won't go.

It's so hard bc we kind of trigger each other. Me with my anxiety and him with his paranoia. It's just so incredibly sad.

[Blueberrybook]

I hope it works out for you. I'm so sorry about your son having all these problems. It sounds like they do a good job at the new facility and it's wonderful that they take the residents on outings.

[MuddyBoots]

Sending my love to you and your family. Has he ever tried Zyprexa or Clozapine? When I was in the worst of my psychosis, Zyprexa took me out of it pretty quickly. I ended up on clozapine because I had a pdoc that was in love with it, and it was effective too (it's considered the best med for schizophrenia, but it's only prescribed when nothing else works because there is a very small risk of agranulocytosis. I'd say it's pretty safe though because they do regular blood work to check your WBC and ANC especially at first)