[BurtonFan2012]

What med(s) have you been on (if any)?
Which med(s) helped your psychosis most?
What side affects did you get?
i may be starting new meds soon and wanted to know about what meds do for you (i know that everyone reacts differently to certain meds) but yeh i may be starting haldol thanks x

[newtus]

ive been on almost all antipsychotics except clozaril. usa fda approved meds i mean. since i live in the usa.

i usually get sedation and weight gain.

ive been on oral haldol and im taking haldol injections right now. depending on your dosage it can make you a little tired to very tired. i dont gain weight on it but idk how it would be for you. haldol only takes away some of my voices. and dont touch much the paranoia.

i hope that helps a bit.

[BurtonFan2012]

thats what my doc suggested the injection haldol i mean but on tablets of it first until next week. i had it prn when i was in hospital and i remembering it helped a bit. i had clopixol injections but they didnt do anything to help anyways. thanks newtus for your post

[BurtonFan2012]

All my posts end up dead idk why any body have opinions on antipshotics? Thanks

[The_little_didgee]

I have tried many different medications and found Zyprexa and Abilify the most helpful. They are not 100% effective but close to it. Abilify has improved my concentration and motivation.

Zyprexa caused somnolence, hypotension and some weight gain. Abilify caused minor weight gain and stomach discomfort.

I find the newer antipsychotics have less side effects.

[avlady]

i'm on diazapam,viibryd,propanolol,levothyroxine,clozapine,risperidone,depacote,provastatin sodium, and hydrocodone acetominiphine. All these meds are after 30 years of trial and error, i know it's alot but it is my only ones that ever worked. I have hypothroidism and degenerative disc disorder in my back. I'm shitzophrenic, PTSD, Depression, and other diagnosis. The meds really work!!

[serloco]

When i first got sick they put me on olanzapine. It kept the voices form getting too out of hand. But the voices were still there all day long. After awhile I heard that risperidone took the voices away from someone on this forum. So i asked my doctor if i could try that. Right away the voices faded to a near nothing. I can still hear them when i focus on hearing them but that is all. I like it because some of the voices were not tormentors and were actually very kind and beautiful. Now i can talk to those ones without having the tormentors ride me all day. When I was on olanzapine they also tried abilify but I didn't notice any difference in my symptoms. I gained a lot of weight on olanzapine too and it gave me rushes of energy when I tried to sleep. Risperidone seems to have little if any side-effects with me. It does not even make me tired, and i am on 4mg of it at night.

I didn't reply before because I thought you just wanted to talk about haldol, which I've not tried. Sorry

I first went on risperidone, which completely zombie-fied me at 0.5mg. It really chilled me out at first, but then was too sedating so I stopped it. I wasn't on it long enough to stop the voices.

Then I tried aripiprazole/Abilify which helped with the voices. I got akathisia at lower doses, but at 10mg the voices mostly went and side effects were minimal. During periods of stress the voices come back.

I switched to quetiapine/Seroquel because it was both a mood stabiliser and an anti-psychotic, but it literally did nothing for my voices or delusions and I had a really bad time this spring on it, leading to my diagnosis changing to sza.

Switched back to aripiprazole/Abilify and the voices have eased off again on 10mg. Pdoc has given me an extra 5mg to take when I go back to Uni as the increased stress will cause the voices to get worse until I settle in again.

As to my opinions of antipsychotics, I wish that I wasn't on them, but I'm glad the aripiprazole/Abilify helps. I worry about the long term cognitive side effects of them and other medications. My plan is to learn some coping skills and taper off them properly as soon as I am able to.

All the best BurtonFan

*Willow*

[DePressMe]

BurtonFan, I've been on numerous meds. Currently, I take haldol and seroquel for my psychotic symptoms. I also take lamictal and depakote as mood stabilizers. The haldol seems to be the best med for me because it helps with my psychotic symptoms and does not seem to have too many side effects. The seroquel helps but it makes me tired. The absolute worse med for me was abilify--I'd go without meds before I'd ever take that again...........D.

[BurtonFan2012]

Thanks for your replies guys Im sorry if I sounded bossy I just wanted to know about different experiencws :-) x

[lostincornflakes]

I've been on Risperdol but it causes facial tics and vision issues. I was on Lithium but they never did blood work and I got lithium toxicity. Seroquel works best and I've been on it for 8-9 years. I also was on prozac forever but I had another psychotic episode in February and my Prozac as stopped and they put me on depaoke. And last week they added Wellbutrin.

[newtus]

Originally Posted by lostincornflakes

. I was on Lithium but they never did blood work and I got lithium toxicity.

this is what happened to me with the lithium. sorry to hear.
seroquel made me gain 80 pounds.
risperdal made me lactate.