Posted by yxibow on March 31, 2009, at 3:40:41
In reply to my friends, trying to reverse a psychosis ....., posted by Jeroen on March 30, 2009, at 18:08:24
> my friends, trying to reverse a psychosis .....
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> i will take 10 mg of Abilify, 400 MG+ of Seroquel upto 800 mg like Maxime of this board told that her psychosis went away
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> im going to try it, should i up my abilify also upto 30 mg?
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> also Seroxat 20 mg
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> WILL ABILIFY BLOCKS THE EFFECTS OF HIGH DOSE SEROQUEL? after 2 weeks i should be able to quit the abilify and see if psychosis is gone?
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>No. And no and no. Two weeks of Abilify, even at a change that much is just barely enough to get over some EPS and see very very minor changes.
APs, like antidepressants are palliatives. That means, if it is suppressing and helping stop some of your most distressing psychotic issues, you have to continue to take them, basically indefinitely just like antidepressants, even if you "feel better".
Yes, you can slowly lower doses, but going off medications completely when feeling better sometimes illustrates the need to continue on them, because they ARE making you feel better.
If you drop them, and by the way you cannot drop them like that after two weeks cold, nasty things like withdrawal dyskinesia and severe anxiety can happen.
I thought you were going to try Seroquel XR. Isn't one medical trial at a time better because it just seems like a lot of circles :/
And aren't the doctors in charge of these changes ?
I mean, I wouldn't sharply change doses of APs just on a dime. The window of psychotropic change is fairly long, it doesn't happen overnight. Going from 10mg to 30mg of Abilify sounds like a lot of change.-- best of luck, I do mean it, I'm not trying to be overcritical I hope
Jay
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