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I'm hypomanic and very agitated. I'm on my usual meds...listed below. Now also on clonazepam 1.5 3 times daily. Also flurazepam 30mg at night. Just home from pdoc appointment and she has added in haloperidol 5mg 2 daily. Is this a good enough dose? How long does it take to kick in.

So I recently went off antipsychotics after having been on them for nearly seven years. They weren't helping with what I needed the most help with and I (and my shrink) suspected they were responsible for the anhedo'nic malaise I've been suffering from for years now. At first I was resistant to get off them because I really thought I needed them, but then I ran out and didn't get it refilled for a couple of weeks and was like, "Hey, I don't feel DEAD inside." And I wasn't suffering any bad effects from NOT taking them, so I figured I would just take them on as as-needed basis. Which happens about once every two weeks. I just get hamster wheel brain and have to shut it off. And so far that's been working out really well. I'm curious how long it's taken for others who have gotten off them to get them out of your system. I haven't taken any Haldol in over a month, but it was just in the last few days that I really felt like I'd "woken up". I can write again. I haven't written anything other than cryptic Facebook posts since 2014. I've done nothing but read Facebook and the news and watch tv and movies since I quit my job four years ago, which I had to do because I couldn't function at it anymore. I was constantly forgetting things and fucking up, it was awful. Looking back I can't be sure if it's because of the illness or the meds. I don't really care anymore. I'm awake again. Thankfully my bipolar disorder isn't so severe that I need APs all the time anymore. I think at first I did, but I've changed a lot over the last several years since I was diagnosed. I don't have the same issues as I once did. I'm a lot more stable. I still take my other meds, mostly so I can sleep, since I also have a sleep disorder (a manageable one, thank the gods). The meds kept me from doing the thing that was probably the healthiest thing I was doing for myself: meditating. Now that I can focus and concentrate again, I can get back to a sitting practice, which gives me the mindfulness I need to stay on top of the little cues my brain gives me when I might be about to do something...off. It's nice not to be swimming in glue anymore.

Well its been 3 months since I was suddenly and without taper taken off clozapine. The first 5 weeks were horrific. I did not eat sleep and barely left the house. Since then though things have greatly improved. I feel fantastic, I have lost 50 pounds my mood is great my blood preasure is now normal and my white cell count has recovered to normal levels. This may sound stupid but my eyesight has also imporved, I no longer need reading glasses. I dont knnow if that the clozapine was affecting my eyesight but I can read a lot more clearly now. Clozapine is a wonderful drug for some but for me it nearly killed me. I even managed a little cry yesterday whilst listening to music. It was not tears of saddness but pure emotion, Its something that I have not been able to do for years getting lost in the music and letting the hairs on the bak of your neck stand on end. I am so happy that I am back on my old haldol depot yes it is a pain in the ass but clozapine was for me terrible. Feeling better than I have ever been.

Hi everyone. I've experienced a short psychotic episode and was put to a hospital for three weeks. I was treated with haldol injections for two weeks and then recieved a 50 mg dose of haldol decanoate (a depot injection), that was 5 weeks ago. Since then I experience all the bad side effects I had when I was treated with risperdal last time - loss of interest in everything, anhedonia, inability to get high or drunk, loss of interest in social interactions, a massice weight gain etc. Antipsychotics just don't work for me. Luckily I'm not subject to any treatment right now, so I just would like to ask how long he depot will stay in my body. The half-life of the depot is 3 weeks, does it mean the full elimination will take up to 3 months? I was recovering from a shot of risperdal consta for like 6 months, vigorous excercise helped a bit, I'm just not sure I can walk through all this again. Is haldol less damaging then risperdal consta? Maybe I'll recover in less time than in case of the previous experience?

Hi guys, I guess I have a very adverse reaction for antipsychotics, both times I was treated I experienced severe side effects like loss of motivation, enability to enjoy ANYTHING, emotional numbness and sort of a "tunnel vision", inability to lose focus a bit and constant suicidal thoughts and fear that I'll never be the same as before treatment. After 1st time (1 month of Risperdal treatment) I managed to recover in about 6 month (only by that time I becamse physically active and get a job). This second time I was treated with Haldol (2 weeks of injections + 1 shot of haldol deconoate 3 months ago). 3 months later I'm still experiencing loss of libido, emotional numbness, inability to feel pleasure from anything and this "changed" perception of the world. I'm 100% this is not the illness as I've never been diagnozed with schiz. Both times I felt really damaged, but this second time really sucks. I've very afraid I'll never be the same again. Please could someone tell me will it pass? Could it be that Haldol fried my dopamine receptors (can't get pleasure from taste, smell, music, nicotine etc.)? I've talked to several pdocs and they all say I don't need any meds but they don't know about side-effects/aftereffects of these meds.