Apiz 10 MG Tablet Health Feed

Dear lybrate-user,
schizophrenia has both positive symptoms (hallucinations, delusions, disorganised thoughts) and negative symptoms (tiredness, lack of interest in any goal directed activity, lack of pleasure, restricted vocabulary, apathy, etc.) probably you would have become alright because of relief from positive symptoms. The negative symptoms also need treatment (amisulpride and aripiprazole). Please don't stop these medicines. Discuss with your psychiatrist. She/he may add an antidepr...more

Schizophrenia is treatable with medicines but one can't predict that it's curable. It means one can have remission of symptoms with medicines but symptoms can reoccur if proper treatment is not taken. Schizophrenia is a continuous illness and with proper medicines it can be treated.

Thanks, hope this helps you. If you have more queries you can ask in follow up. Please write your history of complaints also.

Dear Kannan,
Thank you very much for taking interest in knowing what your relative is going through. This is a serious mental illness with frequent relapses. So it needs long term treatment to keep the illness under control. For some persons it is life long.
ECT is a temporary treatment to prevent suicidal thoughts and disturbing hallucinations (not illusions). If it is effective it needs to be adminstered at regular intervals as maintenance ECT. Of usually maintenance is done by Clozapi...more

Hi lybrate-user, I would like to say that the symptoms of slowness of movement what you have mentioned in a patient who is on Rispeidone and aripiprazole is most probably EPS (extra pyramidal Side effects) unless proved otherwise. There may be underlying or Co morbid Parkinsons disease. But in this position its difficult to diagnose as the Pt is on antipsychotic. Gabapentin has no role in decreasing antipsychotic induced slowness in movements. But its often used as a treatment of Akathesia which...more

Dear lybrate-user,
it is nice of you to help sweta, even if she doesn't want it. If she stops medicines, relapse will occur and again to put her back to treatment is difficult - but not impossible. Teleconsult your doctor on your own, show sweta over video. Both mirtazapine and aripiprazole are available as melting dissolving tablets. Join un co operative patient group. Others will give you tips how to give her food and medicines. Doctor will only diagnose and prescribe. Worse comes to worse...more

Yes, you should be planning a pregnancy while taking daxid and arip medications. Please consult your psychiatrist if you are planning on becoming pregnant.
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Four Types of OCD.
Contamination & Washing. ...
Doubt About Accidental Harm & Checking. ...
Just Right OCD: Symmetry, Arranging, & Counting. ...
Unacceptable Taboo Thoughts & Mental Rituals.

Treatments include:

Psychotherapy. Cognitive behavioral therapy can help change your thinking patterns. In a form called exposure and response prevention, your doctor will put you in a situation designed to create anxiety or set off compulsions. You’ll learn to lessen and th...more

Dear lybrate-user,
both fluvoxamine and prozac are ssris. The anxiety and fear of severe withdrawal is a part of your ocd. Please withdraw from 100 to 50 and stop. No need to go for 25 mg - may not be available. No withdrawal will happen, since it is at a lowest dose. Usually fluoxamine will be withdrawn from 300 - 400 mg/day. Please add therapy also for your treatment so that with erp (exposure and response prevention) your fear comes down - not only for withdrawal but also for other obsess...more

We all tend to engage in some repetitive activities at various points in our lives. However, when a person continues to engage in the same activities which are rhythmic but purposeless, resulting in self-injury or injury to others, it is known as stereotypic movement disorder (SMD). In order to qualify as an SMD, the routine movements should continue for at least four weeks and should interfere with the daily functioning.

This disorder is more common in adolescent boys than in girls, an...more

Becoming dull is sometimes a side effect of the medication olanzapine that she is taking and very rarely seen with the use of the other two medications i.e. Aripiprazole and lithium. Please consult your doctor for suggestions or you can consult us online for further recommendations.
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