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Meds The I hate Haldol thread.

daturetard said:
No doubt but the people that get that shit are probably never the same after that hospital visit.
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can confirm- went in for drug overdose (ambien), was aggressive with the nurses because I was confused, got an injection. later learned they didn't even bother with the ativan/benadryl combo when injecting me- this, along with an apparent predisposition, caused me to develop dystonia. Genuinely some of the worst pain I've ever experienced- was pretty much unable to move, muscles so tense that they kept tearing themselves, etc. The "attacks" happened about eight times during my visit and I had to beg for the benadryl/ativan treatment every time. 0/10 would not recommend the experience. Was given cogentin upon discharge which prevented any further attacks, but I still have widespread muscle tenseness and tics that I believe were originally caused by the haloperidol.
 
In the UK at least, psychiatric staff refer to the B52 as a sort of DLR when someone is an 'immediate threat to themselves or others' but it doesn't always work.

A friend was a psychiatric nurse and mentioned one patient who ended up being given paraldehyde. Now that's an interesting one since you have to use a glass syringe as it melts plastic. Apparently it still failed to calm the patient. You have to feel some compassion towards people who struggle with such severe mental illness. Well I think you do, but it's still not a 'socially acceptable' class of illness and so people will often hide it (or attempt to do so).
 
i already replied to this thread, but here's some more thoughts on it from my situation:

oh man... i've been on a low dose of haldol for like 6 years now, and it took me like a year to ween off the higher dose, so that's like 7 years of haldol... my parents want me to take it and i live with them.. i'm moving out, and the doctors say i don't have to take it.. i don't know if i'll get my social security money if i'm not on meds though, and i can't work cause of a back injury and not really my schizophrenia. i also can't drive cause of an anxiety disorder which doesn't get cured with the schizo meds, and just generally don't feel like it's safe for me to drive with my personality whether medicated or unmedicated... just would suck if i loose that money. i almost want to stay on the low dose. it doesn't bother me at all, but i'm worried about tardive diskinesia which might give me bad dreams or some shit. not a very good situation. i'm probably gonna just start taking ativan as needed which wouldn't even be every day, just occasionally for a better nights sleeep and also keep going to therapy... i think i might also be able to get the MRI from my back sent to my psych docs and they can just say that's enough with the schizophrenia not to work.. i actually have pretty bad spinal arthritis and lifting most stuff or moving certain ways sets the injury off and my schizophrenic voices turn shit when the injury is bad... i'm not gonna take meds to hurt my back working if the voices aren't really bothering me regularly.. the doctors i go to get that. i was kind of acting out when they medicated me because i was having health issues with recreational drugs and was just using the time in the hospital to get clean... it actually worked. lol. i guess i probably could've went to rehab and not been forced to take meds if i were a normal person.

the dose of haldol i'm on now i still can ejaculate one time a day and it feels like it would if i weren't on meds. a second time and it's kind of very dull, and i can't go anymore than that, when normally i could go like 5 times in a day.. i mean, i don't really care to do that, and i really doubt i'll ever want kids, so i don't feel worried i'm messing up my sex drive.... i also find haldol injections even at high doses to be a lot more tolerable than the pills that i've tried risperdal, quetiapine (combined with another pill i forget) an zyprexa.. all of them hit a lot harder in different ways. i was totally shocked that the haldol really didn't effect me other than my sex drive. i think a couple days after the shot i might get some very mild nausea spells, but it's very hard to notice. if i weren't on the drug i'd just think i was feeling a bit off, and not be worried about it...

that's my experience with haldol injections. i know everyone is different. doesn't really hit me very hard.
 
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