LWD Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 Greetings, Has anybody tried stopping their mood stabilizer in favor of an anti-psychotic only treatment? How well has that worked for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpladybug Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 I agree with Sylvan, the Lithium does do different things for me than Seroquel. And I like both results a lot. Did a doctor suggest that? or maybe an advertisement? I worry sometimes about tv and magazine ads and their influence. I would be afraid of a major destabilization if I dropped my mood stabilizer. That could really devastate my life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muriel Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 A lot of people do well on just an antipsychotic without an anticonvulsant or lithium. Why does your doctor want you to come off of one to start the other? They don't have to be either/or. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Vapourware Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Apparently, some antipsychotics have some sort of mood stabilising property, although whether they are as good as a mood stabiliser is something I can't comment on - I'm not great when it comes to how medication works. At the moment, my pdoc is interested in using clozapine [an AAP] as monotherapy for me, because he said that clozapine has some mood stabilisation properties. I've just started on clozapine so I can't say whether or not it's good, plus I'm only on a low dose. I think whether eschewing a mood stabiliser for an AAP depends on your symptoms, i.e. if psychosis is more prevalent than mood, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LWD Posted December 5, 2011 Author Share Posted December 5, 2011 Thank y'all for your response. I am going against the grain here. I went off lithium mood stabilizer a choice I wisely decided for myself not no doctor. I learned that at the second night a relentless body energy emerged and I couldn't sleep so I took my lithium again after that. Mood differs like you say from thought and I believe lithium is more a mood beneficiary to the body than it is a thought one like invega. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 It really depends on you and your symptoms. Some people do okay on an AAP alone, some people don't. I personally wouldn't ever go without a mood stabilizer, but I genuinely cannot. I take both atm. Anna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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