I need too much.

[ChemistryExperiment]

I need so much freaking haldol and geodon to keep the hallucinations decent that I've started getting tremors again. I can't do tremors. I look like a gosh darn freak. any new anti psycchotics come out recentlY? I can't take risperdal, seroquel or abilify, or clozaril. O_O any suggestions?

Oh. I'm on Haldol 10mg AM 15mg HS (but pdoc said I can play around with the night dose... more/less as needed)

Geodon 80mg BID

[dangergirl]

I take Topamax as an atypical AP.

[AnneMarie]

Topamax is an anticonvulsant.

I don't have an answer for ya. Maybe folks at http://www.crazymeds.us will have suggestions IF you don't get much feedback here. There are smart folks here, btw, so hang around.

[crazynotstupid]

Febreze, awhile back I posted (http://www.crazyboards.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=19129) about a new schiz drug with, hey LESS side effects. You can check out the article, and maybe Google on. Afraid it'll be some time yet, but there IS stuff in the pipeline.

I know how it is to do ineffective shit, my fiancee's been through the damn ringer. You didn't mention zyprexa; that's pretty damn obvious, did you just forget and leave it out? Invega? That's just kind of an iteration of risperdal, but who knows--can't hurt to ask, I wouldn't think. And of course that's just the atypicals, there's a whole bunch of plain-janes you could hit up.

I don't have an answer for ya. Maybe folks at [link=http://www.crazymeds.us"'>http://www.crazymeds.us" target="_blank]http://www.crazymeds.us[/link] will have suggestions IF you don't get much feedback here. There are smart folks here, btw, so hang around.

You mean the talk forums? Cuz that's just the info site. No one to talk to there...

[Silver]

I need so much freaking haldol and geodon to keep the hallucinations decent that I've started getting tremors again. I can't do tremors. I look like a gosh darn freak. any new anti psycchotics come out recentlY? I can't take risperdal, seroquel or abilify, or clozaril. O_O any suggestions?

I've had hallucinations. And I have marked tremors when I'm on my lithium/perphenazine. Enough that people with whom I work ask about it... and people at the store... and that I can't ride.

I'll take the tremors. If I'm capable of noticing that I look like a freak, that's a win.

I'm all about the not-wanting-to-look-like-a-freak, but, bottom line, I can function better with a brain that's agile enough to explain the shaking.

As CNS said, Zyprexa, Invega, and there are a ton of old-line APs. Haldol's still my favorite for making the scary things go away, but perphenazine/Trilafon and trifluoperazine/Stelazine worked well too, with a LITTLE less tremor.

[crazynotstupid]

And I have marked tremors when I'm on my lithium/perphenazine. Enough that people with whom I work ask about it... and people at the store... and that I can't ride.

I'll take the tremors. If I'm capable of noticing that I look like a freak, that's a win.

I should have mentioned that. While I was on lith I occasionally had bad tremors. Even now that I'm off lith I have bad tremors--is it a blood sugar thing (I'm biabetic)? Or am i just a bad drunk? or something else? Whatever. i rarely notice, but other people do.

I, too, basically consider it a "big whoop". I got a reply to a post in the bp forum--how do you handle your dx, it goes...i said "fuck 'em, they're wrong and i'm right".

So what's the deal? you gonna toast your treatment plan cuz you don't want to look different? Fine. Drop out and get locked up then. nobody cares how you look in a padded room.

[Silver]

hey, CNS - anecdata for you - my tremor sticks around even when I'm off lithium. But, of all things, Topamax made it dramatically worse. Topamax plus lithium made it bad enough to change my handwriting when I was tired. It hasn't been d/t hypoglycemia. It kicked in when I got to a serum level of ~9 for the Topamax. Beta blockers controlled it, but I figured it wasn't worth adding a drug for control of essentially benign side effects (once I was able to relearn how to ride.)

Heh. Padded room makeover. Will use that on my younger cousin when she has a "go off all my meds" day.

[crazynotstupid]

hey, CNS - anecdata for you - my tremor sticks around even when I'm off lithium. But, of all things, Topamax made it dramatically worse. Topamax plus lithium made it bad enough to change my handwriting when I was tired. It hasn't been d/t hypoglycemia. It kicked in when I got to a serum level of ~9 for the Topamax. Beta blockers controlled it, but I figured it wasn't worth adding a drug for control of essentially benign side effects (once I was able to relearn how to ride.)

Topa+lith...well yes, it would make it worse. I, being curious, once ran all the meds I'd ever taken through a med checker. It popped out topa and lith as a moderately bad combo. My pdoc confirmed (PDR, i think) that adding topa, and I think it may be at around 200 mg, to lith increases serum levels by around 20%.

Aha! Do we see a connection? I actually pointed that out to him when, at one point, i wanted to change from lith to topa but we just added topa to lith. Man, that sucked...pushed me just into toxic range. Ick.

It seems it's all about renal clearance. Damn kidneys anyways... (and me being diabetic for like 24 years to boot certainly doesn't help, even though the kidneys show good functioning)

[SnowWhiteQueen]

I take Seroquel, but that wasn't enough on it's own, and I'm also on 9mgs of Invega, with Zyprexa Zydis in case of emergency. Have you tried Invega? I believe it is the active metabolite in Risperdal, isolated with a reduced risk of bad side effects. I was on regular Risperdal for a long time, and it eventually caused EPS with me. But so far, Invega seems to be okay. Maybe give it a shot? Well, good luck.