Summary: WARNING ABOUT stelazine, moban, paxil, risperdal, haloperidol
my doctor just prescribed me zyprexa, i'm supposed to go to the drug store and pick it up tomorrow. I'm NOT going to take it after reading the side effects people have had here. Reason being i have had serious sideffect problems.
The problem is every drug he has prescribed me for schizophrenia for the last 3 years has had some side effect. I've been mentally healthy because of them but physically sick. I've been on 5 different medications for schizophrenia. (and then numerous medications for the health problems they caused) I was healthy and athletic 6'0 155pounds gym girl when i was diagnosised with it and put in the hospital.
Over the 3 years i've taken stelazine, moban, paxil, risperdal, haldal. Before stopping them all together. First the pills robbed me of all my energy so i couldn't work out anymore. Then my hair started to fall out in clumps. (i had to shave my head at the time) Then i started to gain weight in 3 years i went from 155 to 250. Then i got insomnia (that still hasn't gone away) Then i was diagnosed with Tartive something (something technical i'm not sure what its called but i have the same symptoms as parkison disease) I went to different medical drs and they said it was caused by taking medication for schizophrenia for so long and that it would go away once i stopped taking them or by taking another medicine to combat sideeffects and or lorasipam when the illness occurs. That was last year. i have uncontrolled body movements of my hands and legs, more than trembling actual movement. It has not gone away. It is something i have to live with now. Because of it i had refused to take anti-psychotics for a long time. (Although i still took other medications from a dr for health problems that were orginally caused by the anti-psychotics) Last month my dr insisted that i've been off them too long and that i may relapse if i didn't start them again so i tried haloperidol. My feet and legs swoll up. (that went away) I have pain in my feet and legs. And they found blood in my urine. (that didn't go away) I have gone for blood tests, a ultrasound of the kidney and legs. But they didn't find anything else. Looking back i would have prefered to remain mentally ill than to have the health problems i have now by using the medicines to cure mental illness. The ironic thing about it is now that i plan to refuse the anti-psychotics again i may just end up back at square one but with this parkison like disease in addition. I want to warn everyone please go to a medical doctor and get a check up a month after starting any of these medications.
It has been years since i wrote that post in 2003. And i have learned my lesson so far as what my body can and can't take in regards to psychatric meds. It took from then, till now 2008 for me to learn that, every med they gave me except for abilify, had some adverse effect to my body. Since November 2007 i have been off all psych meds again. I started seeing a nutritionist, walking 30 mins a day (not all at once two times a day 15 mins at a time) I cut out drinking soda (well for the most part-cos of the empty calories) And when i stopped the meds my constant craving for food and sugar went away. my appetite went back to normal after about 2 months. I don't know any solution to the problems the meds cause. I am still looking for one as to the fact, that i know most likely i will have to eventually take meds again. But I am slimmer and healthier than i've been in many years right now. I lost over 75 pounds and it's still coming off every month i weigh i'm shocked. My feet don't swell, i don't have strange body movements and the many other problems i had. AND now after all these years the doctors say... um we think you were misdiagnosed. You are NOT schizophrenic, you are um, Bipolor. And at first they said bipolor schizoaffective, now they are saying just Bipolor and they want to treat me for that....
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