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         |  umbroman3
             from United Kingdom on 2023-07-12 20:11 [#02629251] Points: 6123 Status: Lurker
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 | the doctors tried me on this one first, gave me tablets, the voices went away for like 3 months, then i stopped
 taking the tablets and the voices came back. i gained a lot
 of weight. so they put me on monthly injections. during
 covid they changed me to 5 weekly. now the medication is
 called aripiprazole. also i have diabetes and bad legs, like
 varicose ecsema on my legs. about a month or two ago they
 put me on medication called orlistat for weight loss, ive
 lost about 5 or 6KG, nearly 1Kg per week
 
 
 
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         |  umbroman3
             from United Kingdom on 2023-07-12 20:14 [#02629252] Points: 6123 Status: Lurker
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 | i suppose the reason for putting me on injections is so doctors can trace what medication im taking. cos i dont
 believe im actually ill, im not really ill and not really
 schizophrenic at all. the voice is a psychic man talking to
 me. nobody believes it. i tried to tell my parents, the
 doctors, the nurses,and you guys, im not believed.
 
 
 
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         |  belb
             from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2023-07-12 20:27 [#02629253] Points: 6495 Status: Lurker
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 | it's a real fucker when the psych people just tell you yr ill and the meds will sort everything. my old community
 psychiatric nurse said something really powerful - the
 voices are real for you and who's to say yr not
 perceiving something we can't.
 
 for me it was similar with the risperidone, totally got rid
 of the voices but i backslid on the booze and stopped taking
 my meds, this was when i was in the hostel. i'm on 4-weekly
 arsecheek injection of flupentixol and 15mg olanzapine daily
 now - virtually no voice hearing and i've genuinely just
 forgot a lot of my, aham, theories.
 
 time can do a lot, is all i'm saying. hope you get some
 relief. and well done on the weight loss!
 
 
 
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         |  EpicMegatrax
             from Greatest Hits on 2023-07-12 20:33 [#02629254] Points: 25602 Status: Regular
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 | risperdal sux to the point where the odds are good that the new stuff will be an improvement. the once-a-month dosage
 deal could be about efficiency: doctors tracing if you take
 it costs much more than a monthly injection. however, it
 also saves you hassle, and, hey, usually you get nothing
 when they do something like this; enjoy it
 
 
 
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         |  umbroman3
             from United Kingdom on 2023-07-12 20:35 [#02629255] Points: 6123 Status: Lurker
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 | i suppose the real hold your hand event for me would be if someone i told would actually read the torah and tanakh (the
 talmud is quite a dry read for the most part), then read
 maimonides, and then read london's the times newspaper for a
 while. what would chill me out if someone here read those
 and then could explain to me why im wrong. but yeah kind of
 rude of me to say read all these books and then you might
 believe me. im not a professor handing out lectures and
 demands for book reports. i think wolfie bless him said
 there's no evidence for what im saying. im saying the
 evidence is torah, tanakh, talmud, maimonides, the times.
 
 
 
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         |  umbroman3
             from United Kingdom on 2023-07-12 20:36 [#02629256] Points: 6123 Status: Lurker
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 | my injections cost more than £100 a time for the taxpayer, one time a student community psychiatric nurse messed it up,
 £100 down the drain. bless her
 
 
 
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         |  umbroman3
             from United Kingdom on 2023-07-12 20:45 [#02629257] Points: 6123 Status: Lurker
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 | belb i cant understand everything youve been through, but im glad youre better now. we can understand each other a bit
 because we both hear voices in our minds. ive never had to
 struggle to find a place to live(yet), which would be awful
 for anyone to face.  we're lucky to have a welfare state
 here that protects us a bit, it could be better but it could
 be worse. hope the tories will lose next year and putin
 breaks his neck
 
 
 
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         |  mermaidman
             on 2023-07-12 20:56 [#02629259] Points: 8488 Status: Regular
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 | why did the voices go away for 3 months do you think? do you still have them now? maybe there might be a transition
 period switching medications i don't know how long it takes
 antipsychotics to work or there might not be at all
 
 
 
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         |  umbroman3
             from United Kingdom on 2023-07-12 21:00 [#02629260] Points: 6123 Status: Lurker
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 | i dont know 
 i still have the voice in my mind.
 
 anyone fancy a reading challenge? torah, tanakh, talmud,
 maimonides, the times.
 
 
 
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         |  mermaidman
             on 2023-07-12 21:02 [#02629261] Points: 8488 Status: Regular
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 | but when you were taking risperidone there were no voices right?
 
 
 
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         |  umbroman3
             from United Kingdom on 2023-07-12 21:02 [#02629262] Points: 6123 Status: Lurker
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 | the first time i took rispiridone, i went for a walk to the park about 30 minutes away, in the park i started to get
 vicious muscle spasms in my neck, like inhumane suffering in
 my neck. it was bloody awful. i walked home and the pain was
 just nasty and vicious and the ambulance came, then the pain
 stopped and the muscle spasms just stopped when the
 ambulance people got out, and the voice said the Queen had
 ordered my torture
 
 
 
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         |  umbroman3
             from United Kingdom on 2023-07-12 21:07 [#02629263] Points: 6123 Status: Lurker | Followup to mermaidman: #02629261
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 | i cant remember the dates exactly, on rispiridone i was pretty much knocked out for a few months, like didnt go out
 much, sleeping on the sofa, just watching dvd box sets of
 friends(sorry marlowe, i dont like it any more i swear). i
 had the voices for a few months on it i think, then around
 christmas the voices went away for like 2 or 3 months. and i
 flushed the tablets down the sink because i thought they
 were pointless. when i told my nurse he changed me to
 injections and he came every month to the house. the voices
 came back and stayed constantly. i changed to aripiprazole
 because of the weight gain issues, the voices are the same.
 
 
 
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         |  mermaidman
             on 2023-07-12 21:15 [#02629264] Points: 8488 Status: Regular
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 | sorry to hear that sounds like a side effect of the drug but like you said the voices went away for 3 months then you
 stopped taking risperidone and they came back anyway i'm
 really happy that you are getting treated none of us can
 convince you that the voices aren't real but you should talk
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         |  mermaidman
             on 2023-07-12 21:17 [#02629265] Points: 8488 Status: Regular | Followup to umbroman3: #02629263
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 | yeah it sounds like it takes a while for them to work 
 
 
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         |  umbroman3
             from United Kingdom on 2023-07-12 21:17 [#02629266] Points: 6123 Status: Lurker
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 | torah, tanakh, talmud, maimonides, the times.
 
 
 
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         |  umbroman3
             from United Kingdom on 2023-07-12 21:24 [#02629267] Points: 6123 Status: Lurker
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 | by the way ive had every injection they offered me over the past 8 or so years. havent missed one.
 
 
 
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         |  umbroman3
             from United Kingdom on 2023-07-12 21:26 [#02629268] Points: 6123 Status: Lurker
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 | torah, tanakh, talmud, maimonides, the times.
 
 is there anyone here who would be willing to read these?
 
 
 
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         |  EpicMegatrax
             from Greatest Hits on 2023-07-12 22:46 [#02629272] Points: 25602 Status: Regular | Followup to mermaidman: #02629264
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 | so it sounds like he's missed some quality xltronic! 
 we did the thing where moms arrange it and there's the
 thing where i'm hosted over there once and he was hosted
 over at old house once. and i was like: "cool, when are we
 doing that again?" and mom's answer effectively was: "we're
 not, because we're not jewish enough." i asked what that
 meant and mum laughed.
 --EpicMegatrax, #02629001
 
 
 
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         |  EpicMegatrax
             from Greatest Hits on 2023-07-12 22:46 [#02629273] Points: 25602 Status: Regular
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 | DA TABBERKNUCKLE 
 
 
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         |  EpicMegatrax
             from Greatest Hits on 2023-07-12 22:47 [#02629274] Points: 25602 Status: Regular | Followup to umbroman3: #02629268
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 | > is there anyone here who would be willing to read these?
 
 *shakes 8-ball*
 
 my sources say no.
 
 
 
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         |  EpicMegatrax
             from Greatest Hits on 2023-07-12 22:49 [#02629275] Points: 25602 Status: Regular
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 | i'm only rilling to weed the tea pleiades. 
 
 
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         |  EpicMegatrax
             from Greatest Hits on 2023-07-12 22:53 [#02629276] Points: 25602 Status: Regular
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 | i'm worried about lewis. he contacted me on a new number, confidently jesting, "my old phone was taken by aliens into
 outer space" and, actually, i don't really know exactly how,
 but from his tone i know he's saying this as a joke, to
 cover up the fact that he smashed his phone -- we're
 probably over at least two dozen smashed phones by now --
 during a dissociative episode. and we chat a bit and he's
 alright. but i haven't been able to get in touch with him
 recently and i'm worried, because he actually hasn't done
 that for a while and now he's done it again and not hearing
 from him. i wish he'd take his olanzapine
 
 
 
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         |  steve mcqueen
             from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2023-07-24 22:13 [#02629334] Points: 6639 Status: Regular
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 | what are the voices like, are they like indistinguishable from when someone speaks to you 'irl'?
 
 >>> torah, tanakh, talmud, maimonides, the times.
 London or NY?
 
 
 
 
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         |  steve mcqueen
             from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2023-07-24 22:14 [#02629335] Points: 6639 Status: Regular
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 | tmepted to say challenge accepted, but i aint got 5 minutes let alone a year
 
 
 
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         |  mermaidman
             on 2023-07-24 22:51 [#02629337] Points: 8488 Status: Regular | Followup to steve mcqueen: #02629335
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 | but don't you have any questions about lewis though? 
 
 
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         |  steve mcqueen
             from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2023-07-25 00:06 [#02629349] Points: 6639 Status: Regular
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 | lewis butters my bread m8, i dunno about u but the last time anyone tried to strike around here they were dead on the
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         |  steve mcqueen
             from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2023-07-25 00:25 [#02629350] Points: 6639 Status: Regular
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 | Nigger 
 
 
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