Roll Call 61

i was having symptoms on 10mg haldol but i wasnt so tired/lethargic if i can remember. which i barely can. its doing my mind in too. i had a lot of anxiety though still. but i was managing that with xanax. but as a side effect it made me very tired sometimes.

i feel lethargic/tired right now but i feel very agitated and restless too. so i cant sleep it off like id hope to do.

everyone wants me to be on this dose because they said i wasnt acting right on 10mg but 15mg makes me so...well you know. i said before. like THIS.

Haha it's great to be able to talk to people with a sense of humour! I love how they bring it up...afterward. God knows how I would have reacted when I was psychotic! It was really cool though because he mentioned the chip and where I was with it and I got really choked up and embarrassed, then he told me the story to cheer me up, legend!

Do you think you where acting right on it? I don't know you in real life so there's no way I can give an opinion, you just seemed better via your posts. At the end of the day everyone isn't dealing with these side effects, you are. Though hopefully they'll subside, I don't know a lot about that med just that I was given it as a sedative IM when I freaked out one time in the hospital, it's heavy duty stuff.

yea it is heavy duty. thats why i feel i dont need as much. i was acting right i thought but my dad said i was acting funny on 10. when i told my therapist she said thats prob why im not gettigg good sleep. which i just think im stressed out and wasnt sleeping well. and idk how i was acting funny on it. so idk. i didnt act out on anything i just felt paranoia and stuff.



i love my dad but im not in a good relationship with my mom. its just family problems. which make things worse.

Have you asked your PDoc if you could take lower dosages 3 times a day? That's what I have to do. I literally would crawl into a vacant apartment and take a 45 minute knap when I had to just take two pills, one in the morning and one at night.

currently im taking 15mg all at night. its horrible. idk how taking the dosage 3 times a day would work out because unless its completely lower like 10 than i would still be takig the same dosage. wouldnt i?

i shouldve put a trigger on that

It might help. Definitely talk to your pdoc about it.

As you know, I take 30 mg of Haldol all at night. Before it got increased, I was on 20 mg all at night. My pdoc suggested I try taking 10 mg in the morning and 10 mg at night to minimize the side effects. I did it for ten days, but ended up psychotic again, hearing voices, so I went back to taking all 20 mg at night. I think the twice daily dosing was maintaining a lower steady level of Haldol in my system and it wasn't enough for me. Maybe you will get a better result. This is only my experience.

(Jury's still out about whether 30 mg is helping more. It's been just over a week and I am still popping Klonopin for anxiety, which I was hoping to decrease. I've only heard voices once this week though, so that is good).

oh i see. thanks for the advice.

There's this new advert out that I have seen a few times on billboards. It totally cracks me up! Thought you guys might also appreciate it.

Enjoy!



*Willow*

i discussed it with my dad. im only gonna take 10mg haldol tonight. he thanked me for discussing it with him. i feel good right now cause the meds are wearing off.

Been awake since 3:00 am. Would love it too sleep through the night sos I can function on high resolution next day. So quite..eerie quiet.
Need shower power here in a bit, gots to hunt and gather.
These be the days of Awe
Hold on to our seats gonna be bumpy ride.

I woke at 5 again and can't get back to sleep. I didn't sleep well. Hope everyone has a good day.

Found out my official diagnosis on the ICD thingy, they don't use the DSM over here! It's F29 - unspecified psychosis not due to a substance or physiological condition.

I'm glad you discussed it with him, hope you feel better today!

that's pretty much what i have as a dx... except in the US its called psychotic disorder NOS (Not otherwise specified)

I was thinking I had heard of it before, I forgot you had it too. I was just getting some forms filled out for my disability payments and they put that down. They had pretty much told me I had psychosis of some sort but never gave me an actual diagnosis and someone on here mentioned my psychosis was drug induced so I wasn't sure. It's good to know anyway, it doesn't really mean anything to me but it's handy for official purposes or when I talk to a new doctor or that.

yeah, i dont put much into diagnoses. when i go to a new doctor and they ask me why i am on all these meds i just tell them i have a psychotic disorder

Subscribed to Netflix

im watching roseanne on netflix right now. ive seen every episode but its comforting to watch it, dont know why.

Netflix is awesome! You get a better selection of titles in the states than we do here in the UK mind, so even better for you!

I'm currently rewatching Breaking Bad although also been watching Lie to Me with Tim Roth, it's pretty good too.

whats the selection like in the UK? do they have DVDs there too or just streaming? or both?

morning.

my physical symptoms have lifted from taking 10mg. i dont feel tired but i feel a bit of anxiety. so well see how that goes today.

had my coffee today
drinking english breakfast tea now. sorta tastes like black coffee.

Can you guys move to roll call 62 so chickenfoot can talk to us?

http://forums.psychcentral.com/schiz...call-62-a.html

like a new medical doctor or new psychiatrist or in general? because i dont ever tell them about my psychosis unless its a psychiatrist. except for my current medical doctor he knows now.

i guess if they saw me on those meds like a new doc then i would have to explain.