Posted by med_empowered on July 23, 2007, at 21:07:48
In reply to Re: [over?] medicated haze. help. triggers » med_empowered, posted by LlurpsieNoodle on July 23, 2007, at 20:13:21
hey, sorry--I didn't mean to overstep. I'm just a poster here...the thing is that higher doses of antipsychotics will increase your neuroleptic load, which over time increases your risk of tardive syndromes, which is already a little elevated since you have mood problems and you're female.
Benzos have mild antipsychotic properties, and can help augment neuroleptics. I thought you might want to talk about that with your doc since some studies (a lot of them from the 70s, though) showed that higher doses of benzos often helped out tremendously with psychosis and "other" symtpoms (agitation, anxiety, insomnia) in schizophrenia.
Have you had an AIMS test while you've been on neuroleptics? If you're going above the approved dosages, I would think it would be particularly important.
Have you tried Risperdal or Abilify? They're both higher potency, so you might be able to get the effect you want/need w/ less drowsiness. Abilify has a weight profile similar to Geodon (sans the weird cardio issues), but Risperdal is a kind of fatty-making med.
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