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Psychiatrist•Bangalore
Dear abc, Don’t try to guess the illness from the tablets. The same tablets work on many different illnesses. If you want to help your relatives, please consult the doctor who will educate you on the illness and how you can help in the treatment
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Psychiatrist•Vadodara
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She needs to take regular medicine. Also she is not on any mood stabilizer. Overall prognosis is good for bipolar disorders but need to add mood stabilizer.
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Bipolar mood disorder is relatively good prognosis psychological disorder treated by mood stabilisers. Need regular intake of medication may be life time.
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Psychologist•Bangalore
You have a serious mental disorder and need to continue both medication and therapy for a long time. But because you are young there is a possibility that if you cooperate well and get the right kind of therapy, you could recover well. Because it is a psychotic condition you need to be made to relate to reality often by confronting the distortion of your environment. You may be given to delusions, hallucinations, and disordered thinking and speech. You may be emotionally unresponsive, suffering ...more
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Psychiatrist•Bangalore
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Dear Priya,
Good mood stabiliser like lamitec will help you in the long run. Please don't stop them. Olimelt may be lowered or stopped according to your need vs side effects.
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Hi, one of my close friend's mom is suffering from auditory hallucinations for the more than a week. Most of her talks/hearings are somewhat related to past conflict. Monday they met homeopathy/ayurveda and they suggested for ayurveda tablets/syrup (saraswatharistam and manasamithira vadagam). She was taking ayurveda tablets for 2 days. Since its getting worst and her health would not allow her to wait for few more days to see the response for homeopathy/ayurveda tablets, wednesday night they met psychiatric in chennai. Doctor suggested (psychosis) for a tablet 'olimelt 5 mg' at night (8-8: 30 pm) for 20 days. If she is not getting sleep still, then they suggested to take 'zolfresh 5 mg' at around 11: 30 pm. 1st day (wed night): took olimelt 5 mg around 10 pm, slept around 1 am and woke up around 8 am. 2nd day (thurs night): thursday day time slept for 30 mins. Took olimelt around 8: 45 pm, did not get sleep till 10: 10, started blaberring/crying after that. So gave zolfresh 5 mg, then slept from 12 am-8 am. 3rd dy (friday night-yesterday): friday day time didn't sleep, took her outside. Took olimelt around 8 pm, had meditation for 45 mins, slept around 10: 15 pm. Woke up by 12 am, and blaberring for an hour. So gave zolfresh 5 mg by 1 am, then slept from 2 am till 8: 30 am. Would like to request experts opinion on the below. - can she take both psychiatric tablet and ayurveda medicines together? Would it help for faster recovery? - any other suggestion for faster recovery (like food habits, yoga, meditation, oil bath. Etc)? - in google, its mentioned that "zolfresh 5 mg" has a side effect of hallucinations. Understand this tablet is for deep sleep, but have a fear about this side effect bec. Our main problem is itself hallucinations only - we are trying our level best to divert her, but sometimes it works, most of the times don't. What to do for that - based on above day by day things, are we in a positive direction or we need to speed up the treatment by getting second opinion? How long her body/brain will take to respond for these tablets? When can we expect the slight positive change on this health issue? - there are other suggestions like consulting neurologist, siddha (parallel treatment), acupuncture. Do you recommend any of those at this point of time or wait for sometime to see the response for current medicines? - which treatment would be the best one for this kind of health issue? Any prompt response would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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Psychologist•Patna
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Any type of hallucinations can be removed by psychological counseling and psychological autosuggestion therapy through the online process for three weeks without any medication you can contact me for this on Lybrate website thank you.
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Psychiatrist•Chennai
You need to have a valid prescription and regular review when taking olimelt (olanzapine). There are also many other good companies if the particular brand is not available, consult your psychiatrist for the same. Periodic weight measurement, blood sugar and lipid levels need to be monitored. Usually this medicine is used for initial control and later changed to others, depending on the condition. Do not keep giving the medicine, thinking it is only for sleep on your own. Hope this info helps.
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