My Experience With Antipsychotics and treating my Schizophrenia - My life with Schizophrenia
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ค. 2024
- Hi! 👋
in this video im talking a little about what antipsychotics are and what they do and also my own experience with treating my schizophrenia with antipsychotics and the side effects I have experienced!
thank you for watching! 💚
chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:38 what are antipsychotics?
2:18 Side effects
3:17 My experience with medication
8:05 Living without medication
8:53 Controversy about antipsychotics
9:43 Outro
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Congratulations on your 1000 followers. I absolutely love and appreciate your videos. Always looking forward.
oh thank you so much! 💚 it really feels like a huge milestone! 🥰
I have schizoaffective disorder I take Amsulpride anti-phystoic it works well.take care keep well.❤❤🎉🎉
thank you and you too! ❤
Hello Kimberley, Thank you for all your support.Loving your video's; so Interesting and informative video's. Keep well love Natasha. ❤❤❤❤❤
thank you Natasha! 🥰❤
I've been waiting for this video, thank you
thank you for watching! 😍
I love your videos and your voice! Thank you for talking about this. I’ve been taking antipsychotics for a few months now and I don’t get to hear a lot about this from other people son it’s nice to listen to someone else’s experience!
thank you! 🥰
Hi, Kimberly. You’re very courageous sharing your story and experiences. I’m sure that will reach and help many people.
I was wondering if you’ve had any brain MRI studies or had your cortisol levels checked. You mentioned issues with prolactin, stress, weight gain, and your mental health. Sometimes, all of these can be caused by pituitary or adrenal tumors raising your cortisol levels and throwing off other hormones.
I have Cushing’s Disease that was caused by a pituitary tumor. They thought for years that I just had treatment resistant depression and terrible anxiety. Then I started getting more anxious and paranoid because it caused me to stay in the fight or flight mode. I felt like I was losing my mind and my shrink was starting to think that perhaps I had some type of bipolar disorder. Nope, brain tumor! All of my doctors were shocked.
Some Cushing’s patients get diagnosed because they’ve been hospitalized for psychosis. They find their cortisol levels are severely elevated and once they get them in the normal range they’re free of the psychosis and begin treating the cortisol disease.
It’s considered a rare disease but in the rare disease community we say that diseases are only rare because they rarely test for them.
I love your videos! Keep them coming!
Be well! ♥️
thank you! 💚 and yes I have had an MRI and bloodwork and all that, it is required before a schizophrenia diagnosis, they want to rule out everything else first (at least here in sweden)! and I also have at least one doctor examination every year 😊
clozeapine, olanzapine with the pines helps when over-processing the brain.
Thank you for sharing my daughter started on some of the medications you mentioned..and she had same effects. ..I pray that there is no side affects but I am seeing the same. Please take care..thank you for sharing 🙏🥰😇🤗
thank you for watching! 😍 I hope she also gets minimal side effects and I wish you well! 💚
I love your videos😉
Thank you! 🤩💚
Nice video. Gives me hope for the future. Maybe there is a possibility that I won’t have to take medications in the future 🙏🏻 though it has helped me actually. I’m on abilify. At first I felt restless. But now I “just” have very high and low moodswings. But they shift rapidly so I don’t mind. Though it’s very scary when I get so apathic that I think the best way must be to end my life now…. Because I feel nothing so there is not much to experience. But I am working on putting words to my feelings and try to feel something and embrace my feelings as much as I can. Thank you for a nice video
thank you for watching! 💚 and yes I do hope to be able to at least lower my dosage in the future, I hope you have a nice weekend now! 💚
Love to hear this talked about. I've been on many meds and am on fanapt now. But we are adding clozeapine which I am nervous about. I also get pretty severe nightmares too.
thank you! ive been offered to try clozapine as well but decided to try caripraszine first because I was nervous about it. I hope you have a nice day! 💚
I think youre such a strong young woman. I admire you 😊❤
thank you! 🥹💚
Very informative. I had a bad experience with Quitapine and felt drunk as you decribe- feel much better on Ability now. Great to hear someone else's experience with this illness 😀
thank you!! 🥰
I was prescribed aripiprazole at first but it made me violently sick and gave a metallic taste to my food. I also tried lurasidone, but it made me aware of my tongue in my mouth which was so uncomfortable I had to go to A&E. I’m back on olanzapine and the hunger troubles me, but it’s better than trying to give away all my belongings when I’m manic. I take sertraline as well and weirdly I find that one eyelid droops on olanzapine without sertraline.
good video!
thank you! 🥰
I have tried Zyprexa, Abilify, Zeldox, Quetiapine, Serdolect and am now on Perphenazine.
have you found one that works for you? 😊
@@KimberlyHallberg yes, Perphenazine works well with few side effects.
@@peterbengtsson glad to hear! 😊
Your english is excellent. Obviously you are highly intelligent. God bless.
thank you! 🥰
You should have metformin and/or Trulicity added to prevent diabetes and help with the weight gain. Many people on antipsychotics have had great success managing metabolic issues after adding these medications.
oh I might need to mention that to my doctor!🤔 thank you! 😊
After 6 years of using risperedone now i have diabetes type2
Good video! Im still on meds, haldol
Thank you! 🥰💚
You're so capable of creating these amazing videos
Never tell yourself the harshness this world has shown you called you
Thank you!! 🥹💚
I find your video informative
thank you! 😍
When I was on Abilify it made my voices a lot louder, I had to stop taking it cause of it
sad to hear! do you have working medications now? 😊
@@KimberlyHallberg I’m on Clozapine now, been on it for years now, it helps a little bit , but I still struggle with the voices and depression and visual hallucinations
@@nickdangelo3266 what I’ve noticed, is that many doctors don’t know how to properly prescribe clozapine because they’re a little afraid of it. They won’t raise the dose to reach a therapeutic serum level. Your clozapine blood levels should be between 350-700 to see improvement, this does not correlate with dosage. Some people are rapid metabolizers, meaning they could be taking 600 mg, but have a blood serum of only 150. Demand to have your clozapine serum levels be drawn (it’s not the same thing as the weekly/monthly blood count). If your serum is below 350, your doctor should continue to increase by 25 mg a week until you get there. Like I mentioned, 350 is only beginning, many people need it much higher for optimum results. Clozapine is a fantastically effective medication when it’s prescribed properly.
Also ask them to add, metformin, senna, and docusate sodium to manage constipation and weight gain, if they haven’t already.
Seroquel makes me really hungry. I put on a lot of weight while taking it. So good to sleep, though.
yes same here! 💚
Take care
thank you and you too! ❤️
are you on a benzodiazepine and do you take it daily? Hello from Denmark btw., I have paranoid psychosis but not diagnosed with schizophrenia as I don't have the negative symptoms. On meds Im completely symptom free but as a side effect I get intrusive thoughts and brain fogs and high prolactin.
no I don't take any benzodiazepine and have never done so either 😊
Very good and you're beautiul
Thank you! 😍
I have schizoaffective disorder. I take abilify and lamictal.
do they work well for you? ❤
I also have schizophrenia and I've also had to change around medicine Olanzipine helped me but again the weight gain so my doctor changed me to Ziprasidone and it's working very well. It has helped me with some weight loss I've dropped 10 pounds in one month Im very happy about that.
oh wow congratulations on the weight loss! 😊 thank you for watching! 🥰
Hi Kimberly 👋 I hope you are having a good week 💗. My mom is on anti-psychotics but I don't know the names. Do you ever have RLS? My mom has it bad and can't sleep or stop rocking back and forth. She is suicidal. 😔
hi Kim! thank you! 💚 and yes I do have some RLS but it has lessen with time fortunately. I wish you and your mother well and hope she feels better soon... 💚
I'm experiencing the exact same thing on Rexulti. I'm going to my psychiatrist in a week so that he can taper me off the medication.
I'm really sorry to hear about your mom. Has she gone to see her psychiatrist? Perhaps he can switch her to something with fewer side effects?
@@jacob2431992 I don't know what medication she takes for it. But yes, she went back out of desperation and he increased it to no avail. Thanks for caring. I will be seeing her later today.
@@kimalonzo3363 I hope things go well. Please let us know how things go. :)
@@jacob2431992 it didn't go that well. She is supposed to take her rls med 2 in the morning, 2 in the afternoon and 2 before bed. That wasn't working for her so she started taking all 6 before bed. That was her own idea. She cries every night and wants to kill herself. Her med is called gabapetin or something like that.
Hi Kimberley, im on olanzapine as well,how many mg do you take?
Hi! I take 20 mg but I also combined it with another antipsychotic 😊
@@KimberlyHallberg thanks Kimberley me too but 10 mg,binge watching your videos hope you're doing well
@@Nancy-ow9wy oh thank you! I hope you get a nice weekend! Wishing you well! 🥰
@@KimberlyHallberg thanks dear,you too🥰🥰
I have a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder. I take antipsychotic and antidepressants.
thank you for watching! 😊
@@KimberlyHallberg you're welcome.
I also have schizoaffective disorder. I'm on abilify and lamictal
Det var intressant att lyssna på.
tack! 😍
Nice Videos. How many milligrams are you take? greetings, daniel
Haven't you tried the older generation ones? Im too on olanzapine + effexor. My side effects are increasing with time. I was thinking of trying the older ones.
No I have not! I've only tried the newer generation and what they sometimes call the "third generation" 💚
@@KimberlyHallberg im thinking of trying Cariprazine as it is an dopamine agonist rather than antagonist. Any advice since you are on it ?
@@munishqureshi7285 I really like caripraszine! I don't have that many side effects from it! as for advice im not sure... 🤔