could some one with low dopamine and serotonin..

be a bad candidate for antisycotics

all i know is Haldol makes me paranoid and skitzo with no prior skitzo past and the same with abilify and zyprexa...

now that i try to come off these meds i start to hallucinate and get panic attacks... i was depressed but never sycotic,always had panic disorder but no hallucinations is there a counter drug to withdrawal from anntisycotics im on abilify and i dont believe im skitzo or paranoid skitz i just think im scared of myself cuz im so blank dull and zombied out and thats not how im use to operating so im scared and paranoid,of these meds..i always believe i had low dopamine and serotonin cuz street drugs like cocaine and ecstacy always made me panic and dellusional and have adverse effectcs

Hey,

I replied to you in some other thread about medication, but now I can see why you're having problem,s with your particular medication. Haldol has had some bad press recently, and I think that you should discuss this with your doctor. I can't answer your other more specific questions about low dopamine and serotonin, and no-one else here can either. So, please just go back to yuor doctor, okay?

thanks for the replys

i been through 5 phychiatrist all of tell me there should not be any side effects or withdrawals from the medication i only took haldol once and it was a injection but it put me in a coma state sycosis ,since then i been on klonopin,zyprexa ,lamictal and now replaced zyprexa with abilify..because of haldol ...

i think the drugs are doing brain damage ,im only 20 years old and i have delerium,i shake like i have parkisons,i get paranoid on them,and i cant walk with out a cain or sit still since being on abilify but i cut my 30mg pill in half tonite witho ut consent (well the dr recommended i only take 20mg and i had to eye view cut it to a 15mg pill) and i seem to be doing much better walking and shaking wise ,and im able to type ok.but these antisycotics trip me out its like when im on them im on lsd andi n slow motion and when im off them i have seizures and just go in to traumatic shell shock and scare myself near death..

strange hUH?

i believe my disease is a bit if not a lot diff then a typical skitzo

Hi pillmatic. I hope this finds you well

If you don't mind me asking why did your doctor put you on antipsychotics in the first place if you say you've never been psychotic or had hallucinations before you started taking them? That sounds rather odd to me.

Cocaine and ecstasy both belong to the amphetamine class and are very dangerous. These drugs and others like them increase the levels of dopamine in the brain (up to 150%) and can mimic in part or in whole the symptoms of schizophrenia. One of my last breakdowns happened during the same time that I was using cocaine and meth.

My uneducated opinion on antipsychotic medications given to people without transmitter imbalance is that it could possibly cause brain damage including the disabling behaviors of slurred speech, poor balance, inability to concentrate, extreme fatigue, flat affect, tearfulness, nervousness, tremors, etc. But thats just my opinion, antipsychotics are very powerfull drugs and theres no telling what they would do to somone who didn't need them.

Zero

thanks for your reply i was given my first antipsyc (haldol injection) because i was having G.A.D just anxiety and panic attacks,but the haldol made me hallucinate and made my panic attacks worse it created this image of myself that i was non existant to the world it was like i was in a panic/fear inside my body for 7 days and i thought i had died ,nothing worked but my eyes all i could do was see,and fear so they had to put me on more meds for the behaivor,which i have a thread on called haldol induced psycosis...

i was doing good with a quarter of the lowest dosage of zyprexa,but then when i stopped i started getting panic attacks again and my brain became filled with what seemed like water ,migraines ,blurred vision,un able to sit st ill,twitching and then a seizure.

now im on abilify and im shaking,cant walk straight ,and am basically trapped with fear in my body ,i shake uncontrollably and the memory loss is killing me ,,blurred vision,nausea,unable to move or feel my body sometimes i keep forgetting who i am,something in me seems empty i forget how to be myself and how to act and even forget that im a real person.. it scares me which leads to more panic. major depression starting to kick in ,and feeling like im going to seize or something ,vertigo and even the feeling of just collapsing im so weak in the legs and arms its not even funny

pillmatic, wit those symptoms, you shouldn't even be here. You should be at your doctor's discussing all of this with him/her. i mean, c'mon dude, this stuff is serious. Shivering/shaking is a very bad sign that your body just doesn't like the medication; and feeling 'trapped' even more so. I took a sleeping tablet once and had the exact same symptoms. I went straight to my doctor about it and he told me to stop taking them. So, c'mon man, this is crazy. Either call to or phone your doctor and sort this out, okay?

Kevin

Sorry to hear you're going through such a tough time. Unfortunatly just about everything that you describe are side effects of antipsychotics. While I think it's unlikely that antipsychotics would induce psychosis or hallucinations they could be causing everything else.

Call your doctors office and tell the nurse what side effects you are experiencing and how badly they are effecting you, and the nurse will tell your doctor. You should keep them updated on all side effects (good or bad). There are alot of different meds out there and sometimes a combination is needed, and different amounts of the same meds can have very different effects.

The goal is to eliminate hallucinations and delusions with the least number of side effects. Sometimes this can take a long time to perfect, so hold in there and keep your team informed.

Zero