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Meds The I hate Haldol thread.

MedicinalUser247

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I don't know how many people have been on Haldol, but Haldol sucks. You can't think right you pace all over the place and you get shaky legs. Why do doctors put people on this stuff ? If there's anyone who also hates Haldol go ahead and leave a post. Thanks.
 
Benadryl also helps with the shakes as well.

Ever had a distonic reaction ? You never want to have one.

There's nothing like a medication that sends you to the E.R.
 
Haldol is cheap to produce due to its age and mainly used in wards because of it's rapid onset on severe psychosis where there's danger to staff and self. I guess there's a lot of history of it "working" that's reinforced it's use but working is a relative term.

Why it's still prescribed by new doctors I don't know it's basically poison and there's quite a few studies linking it to cancer.
 
i was on a high dose haldol injection says the person injecting me and a couple of the doctors after getting out of the hospital and olanzapine pills and it didn't stop my voices... the olanzapine actually messed with me most giving me restless legs... literally the only side effects i felt from the haldol was complete loss of sex drive, and then over the course of a few months i got the dose lowered. i'm still on it low dose and still have some loss of sex drive, but i can still ejaculate normally once a day, and can squeeze in twice, but it's noticably not as strong of feelings.. while not on meds i could go like 5 times a day... i don't really plan on having kids, so i really don't care about being on a small dose of haldol injections cause my parents want me to be on it while living with them the next couple years... i'm on a list to get into some other houses and the doctors are fine with me going off it when that time comes... i really don't have much problem with the injection at low dose, but never tried the pills. i'd imagine people could react poorly to the injection and have bad side effects. everyone is different when it comes to these meds.

i personally like risperdal... i'd probably take it if it didn't kill my sex drive, and get rid of the voices.. i like the voices most of the time. they are pretty entertaining and i've learned to separate them from reality, so i don't really want to take meds to get rid of them... risperdal was really the only med of the 3 different combos i've taken that stopped the voices, but if a person needs meds, just try whatever to see what works and gives the least side effects. everyone's brain is different.

i was so scared when they told me i was gonna get injected at the hospital. the head of the staff at the hospital a women came up to me all pleasant like "we are pleased to announce that you are a new' I forget the word she used "For the injection of haldol deconate" or something like that. kind of pissed me off cause she knew i didn't want to take meds and she was treating it like it was gonna be awesome.. so surprised and relieved when i didn't get a ton of side effects. i thought i'd be like nodding out feeling like shit all day.
 
I worked for ten years as a certified psychiatric technician, Haldol is one of the major tranquilizer's used as a chemical strait jacket, primarily for violent, explosive, or otherwise highly agitated people/patients! I sure as shit wouldn't want that jab, also available as a tablet, but in the closed door psych units the go to method of applying Haldol upon reluctant or resistive patients is via IM injection!

We used to refer to it as the "Quiet Maker!"
 
I had a low dose of haldol for only two days in a psych ward for medication induced psychosis. I kept dropping my water cup and I was already becoming less coordinated. I don't like to think about what would've happened if I stayed on it or if the psychiatrist was less responsible and gave me more.
 
Death and severe illness is spoken of below.

Someone I cared for had cancer. He was on his way out. I had been caring for him through all of it. Like me, he had some weird ass reactions to drugs.

So he starts seeing things a bit. My dear had cancer everywhere, of course he was seeing stuff. Palliative care prescribed liquid Haldol and tells me to start feeding it to him. I asked if it was really needed, I mean he had like a week or so left. Who cares if he is seeing birds in the room. It didn't bother him or me. Well, what he sees goes from "huh, would you look at that" to absolute mortal terror. I tell them he is having a reaction. They tell me he just needs more of it. So I give him more. They had me dumping huge syringes down his throat.

I should have trusted my knowledge of his reactions. My best friend ended up dying in the hospital instead of at home, knocked out to keep him from screaming. The Haldol triggered something and while stopping it calmed things down a bit, he still was yelling in terror till they put him under.

He was my closest family even though we weren't related, anymore. We fought the world, back to back. He trusted me with his life. I should have done better.
 
Why they use haldol when far better drugs like zyprexa are available i dont know. Zyprexa also comes in injection form and works fine for emergencies. I saw lots of people in the psych ward on it though and they looked liked zombies. It freaked me out kinda. Haldol causes akathisia way to often for my liking and just fucks people up. I did know 1 person though who was fine on it but she was on a low dose

I have never had haldol but i have had thorazine and i found it worked really well. However i took it for nausea and pain and also once in injection form for opiate withdrawal. The other first generation antipsychotic i have had is compazine. Its scripted for nausea but is actually a antipsychotic. That worked really well for me and combined with morphine was actually really good
 
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He was my closest family even though we weren't related, anymore. We fought the world, back to back. He trusted me with his life. I should have done better
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I'm caring for someone with late stage cancer too. There is no manual everything is a judgement call and inevitably there are going to be things we wish we had done differently in hindsight. Your friend could have been going through all that alone as many do. They were fortunate to have you by their side.

I'm sorry for your loss.
 
MedicinalUser247 said:
I don't know how many people have been on Haldol, but Haldol sucks. You can't think right you pace all over the place and you get shaky legs. Why do doctors put people on this stuff ? If there's anyone who also hates Haldol go ahead and leave a post. Thanks.
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I took four injections of haldol descanoat every 28 days for 4 months at 234mg and now it's been a year since I stopped I'm no longer a zombie I had tremors joint pain during my sleep headaches during withdrawal it was torture no libido emotions no pleasures torture, libido is improving now but still not like before I hope to recover completely.
 
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