Posted by xbunny on June 13, 2006, at 8:03:41
In reply to whats so bad about stopping antipsychotics?, posted by xbunny on June 12, 2006, at 8:58:54
So I met with the psychiatrist today and had a very long and detailed discussion. As a side note I was very impressed with him given he is an NHS psychiatrist, he had put aside half an hour to talk with me and we were in conference for nearly an hour and covered many topics. He had studied my notes, had researched my current drug regiem and seemed very easy to talk to. To cut a long story short his plan is that he wants to replace my current regiem of pericycazine with a different drug and wean off that over the course of nine months to a year. He has made me an appt for 6 weeks which will give him time to study my notes more and formulate a plan of which drug he thinks is most appropriate. I am fine with this but it does seem a slightly roundabout route, are some antipsychotics more suitable for withdrawal than others? to be honest I think the psychiatrist is slightly biased against older meds, though after explaining to him my experiences with zyprexa, risperdal and amisulpride he said he could see why I prefered drugs that didnt make me feel that way.
Bunny
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