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Mental Health (Expert Forum)
"Typical" antipsychotic side-effects.
Answered by
Roger Gould, M.D. - Mental Health, Wellness
Questions posted in the Mental Health forum are being answered by Dr. Roger L. Gould, author of the Mastering Stress and Depression program and affiliated with the UCLA. Department of Psychiatry. Topics covered include anger, attention deficit disorder (ADD) , bipolar disorder , dementia , electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) , learning disabilities, memory, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) , panic , personality disorders, phobias , post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) , schizophrenia , stress , transitions, and work problems.
"Typical" antipsychotic side-effects.
by rjh, May 23, 2007 12:00AM
My psychiatrist is considering switching me from an atypical to a typical antipsychotic because I'm not getting a lot of relief from the paranoid delusions and hallucinations I suffer. I've done a lot of reading on the whole class of "typicals", as well as on the individual drugs themselves and the side-effects seem so much worse than those for the atypicals I've been taking. What I'd like to know is: Are the typicals are proven to give more relief from positive symptoms to go along with those side-effects?
Doctor's Answer
by Roger Gould, M.D., May 28, 2007 12:00AM
, May 28, 2007 12:00AM
The reason the atypicals are so frequently used is because of the side effect issue, but the typicals have been proven to be as or more effective, so picking the one with the least side effects is what you and your doctor need to do, but often it is a matter of trial and error. I don't think you can make the generalization about positive symptoms without considering each medication separately.
Member Comments (2)
by tuffty, May 27, 2007 12:00AM
You can try clozapine. it's atypical and mostyl peopl find it the best one, and btter than the typicals. It helps many people who didn't get better with other antipsychotics.Good luck.
