[stayingafloat]

After 9 years of trying out almost all available antipsychotics for paranoia, nothing worked. I need something to calm me down, not making me feel bothered and only benzos do that. But my pdoc insist that i take APs or else i will end up warded, like as if to threaten me or something, yet i barely feel any difference with or without it. My pdoc obviously doesnt listen to me at all. There is no APs that worked. I wonder is there any alternatives? Or am I treatment resistant.

List of APs tried

1)Stelazine
2)Risperidone
3)Sulpiride
4)Amisulpride
5)Asenapine
6)Olanzapine
7)Seroquel
8)Invega
9)Abilify
10)Chlopromazine
11)Haloperidol

[Erti]

Clozapine is one that comes to mind when all else doesn't work they try it with good results.

[stayingafloat]

Originally Posted by Erti

Clozapine is one that comes to mind when all else doesn't work they try it with good results.

Thats what i was initially thinking, since i never tried it before. What kind of benefits should i expect from Clozapine? I have no hallucinations, but severe social and generalized anxiety with some of it caused by deep rooted paranoid thoughts and self referential tendencies.

[SlumberKitty]

I take Rexulti, it's an AP.

[Erti]

im surprise they haven't tried Thorazine

[stayingafloat]

Originally Posted by Erti

im surprise they haven't tried Thorazine

Yes they did put me on that before but it never work.

[Esmme]

Originally Posted by Namelessness

Thats what i was initially thinking, since i never tried it before. What kind of benefits should i expect from Clozapine? I have no hallucinations, but severe social and generalized anxiety with some of it caused by deep rooted paranoid thoughts and self referential tendencies.

I don't know if Clozapine will work for you, but it's worth a shot
I tried most of the APs and nothing worked until I started clozapine... It helped mostly with my "hallucinations" and therefore helped my "paranoia" and "delusions" although when I am under severe stress ,symptoms come back

For the most part, as long as I do what I can to stay stress free, it works pretty well

[still_crazy]

Abilify helps me, but sometimes adding a drug for mood (in my case, Lamictal) helps the antipsychotic work better on all sorts of "symptoms"/problems. I think Trileptal, tegretol, and depakote are used for that, too.

benzodiazepines? nobody wants to be an addict, but...back when I took Klonopin (clonazepam), it helped...until it stopped working. that doesn't happen to everyone, though. tapers/stopping treatment...rough. miserable, even. but some people stay on Klonopin, xanax, ativan, valium, whatever for years, even decades.

hope things get better for you.