Haliperidol 150mg depot side effects

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Dear listeners

This is my first post so please bear with me.

In the past I have suffered terrible anxiety which haliperdol has helped to calm down.

But..there is always a but. I want to go back on abilify. I don’t like the side effects of haldol. It gives me electric shocks like pins and needles. It is difficult to describe It also makes my mood flat like I can’t enjoy things in life. I feel inner restlessness so can’t sit still for very long.

Can anyone relate to these side effects and do they wear off?

Here is a little of my background to help my fellow users to answer my question above:

I have been on Haldol depot for 5 weeks on tablets before then so all in all been on haliperdol for 8 weeks. It has helped with me get out of hospital which I didn’t like. I was in hospital for a total of 3 months when they weaned me off abilify as I relapsed on it. I think the reason I relapsed is because I came of mirtazpine virtually cold turkey without medical supervision. I was told to reduce it in steps from 45 to 30mg then slowly to 15mg but I went from 30mg to zero in a matter of days. Not a clever move I admit with hindsight.

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All i can say is ive heard this alot before i am on haldol and have zero complaints and its been a good lifesaving med

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My dad had this he was schizophrenic and epileptic, he complained of zaps to his rectum. He thought it was meds. He had it for a long time. Eventually it left. He was mostly on Seroquel the longest, for years.

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Yes im on haliperidol sister drug zuclopenthixol/ clopixol. Makes me extremely flat numb mood constant but abilify gave me other side effects like shopping addiction and less calm in mind etc

Welcome to the group were a friendly bunch

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I can emphasise with the side effects of abilify. It did give me hypersexuality and made me go on spending spree. The spending spree did however calm down after a while. My sister-in-law advised to stick with haldol as the depot is more expensive to administer than the tablets. Once you switch to tablets she said it is difficult to go back on depot injections. I was expecting haldol to make me more drowsy but it has a paradoxical effect of alerting me and I only have 4 hours of sleep per night. Perhaps you could comment on whether it makes you drowsy?

Thanks

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Abilify is available as depot too

Ive been on clopixol depot 7 years it doesnt sedate me.

I dont think cost of meds should be a factor if you can afford them. All antipsychotics affect each person differently. So keep talking to your psychiatrist

Edit And in my opinion the fact that haliperidol depot is causing so many side effects like electric shocks, flat mood and insomnia is worrying. There are lots of AP talk to your doctor