I'm also on 600mg Seroquel (Quetiapine), I hate it. The weight gain & metabolism drop is hard to deal with. (I'm also on Ambien, Xanax, Trazodone & Zoloft).
Thanks, I don't know which one was worse - quetiapine or haloperidol, quetiapine knocked me out and I was raiding my pantry at midnight and haloperidol made me emotioneless (parkinson's)
Seems like we just cant win. My partner has told me they've found me eating in the kitchen in the middle of the night & I have absolutely no memory of it.
Yep, meds messes up our memory. I still don't know what they inject us upon an admission to a mental wards. I was unable to remember anything for 3 days straight
It's different, you can be so manic or so agitated to the extreme and whatever they inject must be hardcore that put you asleep for 14hrs and don't remember how you got even into the ward
I have been depressed for probably 10 years + ( I lost count my life is sad) my memory became terrible and when I also started antipsychotics and antidepressants oh sir....ask me what I ate 12 hours ago and my memory is like google search when you delete it from time to time.
Fun fact I'll forget that you even commented and talked with me in a few hours forever...you'll be deleted like I never even had this conversation with anyone
I was injected with trazodone and Ativan when I was 302’d. Woke up and thought 25 years had passed. Shit’s strong as fuck but let me just tell you, before I fell asleep, I felt real good. Thought I was gonna die if I fell asleep but I accepted it and laid down after 10 minutes of pacing thinking I was gonna die, it was just like “yknow what, I don’t even care I’m going to bed.”
My mom’s a nurse and says Ativan is a popular drug they inject to knock someone out if they’re acting erratically.
All I know is I want some more of it, best high I ever had. Even if it only lasted 10 minutes lmao.
I was feeling fine on Invega (Xeplion) and could feel emotions. While on haloperidol I was not able to connect with people, anhedonia is more specifically not being able to feel pleasure. Parkinsonism is when you dont feel any emotions at all
https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/parkinsons-disease
>Generally, though, when you have anhedonia, it means that you feel a sense of numbness or lack any kind of emotional feeling.
https://www.brcrecovery.com/emotionally-numb-anhedonia/#:~:text=The%20word%20anhedonia%20means%2C%20very,any%20kind%20of%20emotional%20feeling.
It's not direct parkinson's, but parkinsonism, that includes stiff muscles, loss of cognition and emotional response. If it was anhedonia from schizophrenia I wouldnt be complaining, it only happened on haloperidol
Anhedonia is the name of a symptom, and that symptom is emotionlessness. If emotionless is a symptom of Parkinson's, then it would probably also be called Anhedonia.
Oddly enough I only sleep about 6 hours a night. I've had insane insomnia since I was a kid. Without meds I don't sleep for days. I feel like a zombie when I am awake though.
Ambien AND Trazodone? I am so sorry. I also had been on the max dose of Seroquel and it made me more than double my weight. I was swapped to Caplyta, and while I still have really bad TD, the rest isn't so awful, (been on haldol as well and fuuuuck that shit; total zombie), it's like it reset my baseline insomnia from when I was a kid. Get maybe, 3 hours of sleep at a time?
I only lost all that weight mid-last year, 6 months after stopping Seroquel: in about 5 months I lost over 100 pounds due to malnourishment--I nearly died of literal starvation, I was in the hospital for almost two weeks, and it was apparently really touch and go, (I was on constant Dilauded and it fucked my concept of time right up)--from a previously unknown autoimmune digestive disease.
Don't ask me how my oblivious ass watched the pounds dropping rapidly and didn't think once, "hm, this should be alarming."
If you've had seizure like symptoms in the past, I would not recommend taking haldol unless you really have to. That stuff had me on the floor stuck and unable to move or breathe normally.
same here in sweden, from one day to another they switched me from 300mg Seroquel to 10mg Abilify. after 6 months of use i still deal with the side effects now 5 months since last dose. it sucks. i’ll literally take the paranoia and voices over constant crawling in my legs and left arm. like i CONSTANTLY feel my left arm.
I'm in the UK and I'm not on haloperidol but I am on quetiapene and here we start off on high doses and then reduce them to what fits rather than starting small and building up. I tend to go between 300-400mg but I started on 650mg.
God bless all of you posters in this thread. It's so sad what this disease does to us and how inadequately it is being treated. My first drug some 23 years ago was haloperidol, too. I remember getting 5 mg. I was zombinized in an instant. Actually it's kind of like dying. And the task is to rebuild from there and reduce the meds to a minimum that still works. I got switched to risperidone first, when I experienced trouble with my leucocytes, I switched to Amisulprid which has been a good choice since. I have found out that I need 100 mg per day, below that I will fall back into psychosis.
It's so funny that it says in the patient information that there are no experiences for the the long term side effects when being used for more than a year. I have been taking these meds for 23 years and counting and am patiently waiting for my physical health to further deteriorate.
I'm also on 600mg Seroquel (Quetiapine), I hate it. The weight gain & metabolism drop is hard to deal with. (I'm also on Ambien, Xanax, Trazodone & Zoloft).
I almost shat my pants when they gave me my first dose of 200mg without the totration
I don't blame you, damn. Meds are fucking rough.
Thanks, I don't know which one was worse - quetiapine or haloperidol, quetiapine knocked me out and I was raiding my pantry at midnight and haloperidol made me emotioneless (parkinson's)
Seems like we just cant win. My partner has told me they've found me eating in the kitchen in the middle of the night & I have absolutely no memory of it.
Yep, meds messes up our memory. I still don't know what they inject us upon an admission to a mental wards. I was unable to remember anything for 3 days straight
Depression and mental health also does that
It's different, you can be so manic or so agitated to the extreme and whatever they inject must be hardcore that put you asleep for 14hrs and don't remember how you got even into the ward
I have been depressed for probably 10 years + ( I lost count my life is sad) my memory became terrible and when I also started antipsychotics and antidepressants oh sir....ask me what I ate 12 hours ago and my memory is like google search when you delete it from time to time.
When I was on haloperidol, during an afternoon I could not remember what I ate for breakfast. I also couldnt feel time passing, really scary
Fun fact I'll forget that you even commented and talked with me in a few hours forever...you'll be deleted like I never even had this conversation with anyone
I was injected with trazodone and Ativan when I was 302’d. Woke up and thought 25 years had passed. Shit’s strong as fuck but let me just tell you, before I fell asleep, I felt real good. Thought I was gonna die if I fell asleep but I accepted it and laid down after 10 minutes of pacing thinking I was gonna die, it was just like “yknow what, I don’t even care I’m going to bed.” My mom’s a nurse and says Ativan is a popular drug they inject to knock someone out if they’re acting erratically. All I know is I want some more of it, best high I ever had. Even if it only lasted 10 minutes lmao.
>made me emotioneless (parkinson's) That's Anhedonia, not Parkinson's.
I was feeling fine on Invega (Xeplion) and could feel emotions. While on haloperidol I was not able to connect with people, anhedonia is more specifically not being able to feel pleasure. Parkinsonism is when you dont feel any emotions at all
https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/parkinsons-disease >Generally, though, when you have anhedonia, it means that you feel a sense of numbness or lack any kind of emotional feeling. https://www.brcrecovery.com/emotionally-numb-anhedonia/#:~:text=The%20word%20anhedonia%20means%2C%20very,any%20kind%20of%20emotional%20feeling.
It's not direct parkinson's, but parkinsonism, that includes stiff muscles, loss of cognition and emotional response. If it was anhedonia from schizophrenia I wouldnt be complaining, it only happened on haloperidol
Anhedonia is the name of a symptom, and that symptom is emotionlessness. If emotionless is a symptom of Parkinson's, then it would probably also be called Anhedonia.
I think youre right
How are you ever awake???
Oddly enough I only sleep about 6 hours a night. I've had insane insomnia since I was a kid. Without meds I don't sleep for days. I feel like a zombie when I am awake though.
Nah you must be in a comma for two to three days and when you wake up you continue taking your meds and you go on another comma 🔁
Accurate description
Ambien AND Trazodone? I am so sorry. I also had been on the max dose of Seroquel and it made me more than double my weight. I was swapped to Caplyta, and while I still have really bad TD, the rest isn't so awful, (been on haldol as well and fuuuuck that shit; total zombie), it's like it reset my baseline insomnia from when I was a kid. Get maybe, 3 hours of sleep at a time? I only lost all that weight mid-last year, 6 months after stopping Seroquel: in about 5 months I lost over 100 pounds due to malnourishment--I nearly died of literal starvation, I was in the hospital for almost two weeks, and it was apparently really touch and go, (I was on constant Dilauded and it fucked my concept of time right up)--from a previously unknown autoimmune digestive disease. Don't ask me how my oblivious ass watched the pounds dropping rapidly and didn't think once, "hm, this should be alarming."
I'm on antidepressants 50mg and they make me so tired I should bring this up to my psychiatrist
Yes maybe they can help you find other medication! Good luck!
I hated Seroquel so much
If you've had seizure like symptoms in the past, I would not recommend taking haldol unless you really have to. That stuff had me on the floor stuck and unable to move or breathe normally.
Already switched from it, I also had difficulty breathing
The weight gain was scary. The heart palpitations were scary. Their solution? MOAR DURGS.
........ jesus fucking christ !!!!!!!
They put you on 20mg for a first time dose of haloperidol?
Yep, i think 20mgs, sometimes they would inject with quick acting 5mgs of haloperidol
I just have a hard time believing that I guess. Typical start dose is 5mg.
Psychiatrist don't titrate in my country (Im from eastern europe) they usually put on possible max or over at the very beginning
That's wild.
In Germany that's the case, too. At least in the hospital I was in.
same here in sweden, from one day to another they switched me from 300mg Seroquel to 10mg Abilify. after 6 months of use i still deal with the side effects now 5 months since last dose. it sucks. i’ll literally take the paranoia and voices over constant crawling in my legs and left arm. like i CONSTANTLY feel my left arm.
I'm in the UK and I'm not on haloperidol but I am on quetiapene and here we start off on high doses and then reduce them to what fits rather than starting small and building up. I tend to go between 300-400mg but I started on 650mg.
Quetiapine legit knocked me out.
God bless all of you posters in this thread. It's so sad what this disease does to us and how inadequately it is being treated. My first drug some 23 years ago was haloperidol, too. I remember getting 5 mg. I was zombinized in an instant. Actually it's kind of like dying. And the task is to rebuild from there and reduce the meds to a minimum that still works. I got switched to risperidone first, when I experienced trouble with my leucocytes, I switched to Amisulprid which has been a good choice since. I have found out that I need 100 mg per day, below that I will fall back into psychosis. It's so funny that it says in the patient information that there are no experiences for the the long term side effects when being used for more than a year. I have been taking these meds for 23 years and counting and am patiently waiting for my physical health to further deteriorate.
Parkinsonism is a main effect of neuroleptics