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LjosalfrBlot
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19 Nov 2011, 9:38 pm

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Antipsychotics have the worst side-effect profile of all the psychiatric drugs. I was on Risperdal for six months as a teen. Developed high blood pressure, uncontrollable muscle spasms, got loads of acne and gained 45 pounds while on it. After I stopped taking it, I went back to being skinny, had normal blood pressure again, my face cleared up, and the muscle spasms stopped. Unless you're in the midst of extreme psychosis, stay away from risperidone!

Yes! Exactly. Although, if you are in the midst of extreme psychosis, it's better to be psychotic than dead!

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20 Nov 2011, 5:51 am

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20 Nov 2011, 5:53 am

They're called antipsychotics for a reason. Some people take them to prevent having psychotic episodes. In those cases, they have to.

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20 Nov 2011, 10:21 am

Angel_ryan wrote:

What about dieting? has anyone tried dieting? I've read a lot of cool studies where people with Autism/schizophrenia and related disorders did slightly or a lot better with the right diet. So I'm going to give it a shot. If that doesn't work then I might have to consider pharmacology, but for now I'm going to try this GAPS diet out http://gapsdiet.com/The_Diet.html (list of foods to eat/avoid)

I've also been self medicating for depression with 5HTP and taking a niacin supplement for my paranoia it's not a cure by far but it does help a little bit. hopefully this and dieting will help me beat my IBS too.
If my cognitive function improves at all on the diet I'll let people know.

Also, Omega 3/6 Fish oil supposedly helps a lot with mental functions

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20 Nov 2011, 1:51 pm

You'll know if you need to try an antipsychotic for anything.

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20 Nov 2011, 4:54 pm

I myself am an Aspie mom, trying to hep my daughter navigate a minefield with her PTSD, and hearing voices. We have tried herbal remedies, conventional meds, and therapies with some positive effect. But as an RN I know the side effects of some of these are permanent, like tongue rolling and tardive dyskinesia. These are aweful but not fatal. The more present issue is keeping her able to cope with her issues because suicidal attempts are far more dangerous that feeling overtired and a bit zombieish I think

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25 Nov 2011, 6:52 am

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26 Nov 2011, 5:59 pm

Antipsychotics are very effective.

How are they deadly? What a load of bull. What a stupid topic.

If you are psychotic, anti-psychotics are the best invention in the world. Yes they have side effects, unfortunately, but they are not 'deadly'! ! LOL

The OP sounds like he needs an anti-psychotic.

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26 Nov 2011, 9:12 pm

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I fully believe these drugs are the most frightening trend in modern psychiatry. I can't count the times they led me to attempt suicide, landed me in the ER or the psych ward, or left me in unbearable physical pain.

I will NEVER take these medications again. I get very angry just thinking of the life they stole from me and pain they inflicted.

Just jump on over to Wickipedia and have a glance...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipsychotic

A number of harmful and undesired (adverse) effects have been observed, including lowered life expectancy, weight gain, decrease in brain volume, enlarged breasts and milk discharge in men and women (hyperprolactinaemia), lowered white blood cell count (agranulocytosis), involuntary repetitive body movements (tardive dyskinesia), diabetes, an inability to sit still or remain motionless (akathisia), sexual dysfunction, a return of psychosis requiring increasing the dosage due to cells producing more neurochemicals to compensate for the drugs (tardive psychosis), and a potential for permanent chemical dependence leading to psychosis much worse than before treatment began, if the drug dosage is ever lowered or stopped (tardive dysphrenia).

Risperdal, one of these drugs, is now a first line treatment for children with autism as young as four years old!! !!

I take daily prescribed doses of amphetamines. I'm by no means a pharmaceutical puritan. These drugs, however, are incredibly scary.

I understand that some people genuinely need to take these drugs, but I'm begging you, use them only as a last resort!

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26 Nov 2011, 9:45 pm

While some people may not like antipsychotic medications, I have to embrace the one I'm on now, Clozaril, as it is the only medication that was able to treat my psychosis and mania without side effects that the other ones cause.

I'm happy to be on Clozaril also because it's the medication that has helped me stay out of the psychiatric ward.

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26 Nov 2011, 9:57 pm

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I don't like anti psychotics because they have made me gain around 60-80 pounds in the last 5 years. I am just very fat. Also the ones that don't cause me to gain weight make me very tired and all I do is want to sleep 12-14 hours a day and when I had to take some in the morning I slept an additional 3-4 hours in a day. This pill made me sleep up to 18 hours in a day! By the way even though weight gain isn't truly a side effect of Loxapine (the poison that I am on now) sleeping all day can make you gain weight. Also I was on many other anti psychotics before the Loxapine. During stressful times and when under a lot of anxiety, the pill doesn't help with the psychosis as much as it should anyways. During normal times it is better but since May not totally gone. Mine is stress and anxiety based though. That causes or makes more likely the psychosis. Sometimes I get problems without anxiety, however. Most of the time I go to sleep at 10pm and get up around 10-11am. That is unless I have an appointment earlier in the morning. Like for example when I have to go into my brother's work I have to get up at 7:10 am. On Wednesdays I have to get up at 9am. All this might sound late to most but for me because of my poisonous pills I need so many hours of sleep. Some days it takes hours to get out of bed. I do suffer from depression as well but I know the tiredness is due to the anti psychotic because when I took it in the morning that is when I literally slept the entire day away. The only times I would get up is to eat and if we had to go places. If we stayed home all day I wouldn't even get dressed. I hate taking my poison because that is what it really is.

not to sound like an as*hole or anything but, seems like they are doing there job, unless that is the point you are making. A sleepy psychotic person is probably better than an alert one.

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26 Nov 2011, 10:00 pm

Just read Tambourine mans post, so I kinda take back what I said.

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27 Nov 2011, 12:56 am

I don't mean to come off too strong, but if I was given the choice to go through six hours of severe dystonia again, or blow my brains out with a shotgun... um... I'd gladly take the shotgun.

Geodon had me writhing in agony in the emergency room. I bit through my tongue. The muscles in my chest contracted so terribly that I couldn't breath. I clawed my face until it was bloody. I had never been in such unbearable physical agony.

After FIVE HOURS of pure torture I was finally given IV Ativan and Morphine. If I ever run into one of those ignorant doctors again I will force half a bottle of Geodon down their throats!

I'm sorry, but I was forced to take these meds for years, and I still have nightmares about all the suffering I endured because I was "bipolar." I've never had a manic episode in my life!

I absolutely DO NOT trust doctors or drug companies. Yet I'm a firm believer in psychotropic intervention. I, however, call the shots. I do all my own research, choose my own meds, and set my own doses. My doctors give suggestions and sign my scripts. If a doctor insists on making a decision about my brain and body without my approval, that doctor is fired!

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27 Nov 2011, 11:13 am

I've responded really well to Abilify, Resperidol and more recently Seroquel. I think I would be dead without them.

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28 Nov 2011, 2:17 pm

Tambourine-Man wrote:

I think Geodon might just be the worst drug ever. It gave me hallucinations. Worst birthday party ever...

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28 Nov 2011, 10:25 pm

Risperdal really messed me up, took it for awhile when I was 11 (I'm 25 now) and I'm still trying to get over a lot of what it did. Like quite a few people I gained a severe amount of weight. 5'1 and 95 lbs when I started it, about 9 months later I was 5'4 and over 200 lbs, I was 11 and had a 48 inch waist. Took me till I was 17 to lose the weight, so add the fact I already had a horrible time trying to go to school and be "social", I then became the subject of severe humiliations and beatings to the point I dropped out of school when I was 12. Can't say Risperdal did me any good. On a strange note and to go to show that age and medications can really be different I started taking Seroquel XR about a year ago, it is also an anti psychotic and it has helped me extremely well with sleeping, controlling my temper and seeming a bit more "natural" in social situations and at work. So if one med doesn't work for you, a lot of times another will!

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