 So you spoke to your psychiatrist and they want to change your medication. In this video I'm going to give my advice on what to expect when changing your psychiatric medication. Hey what's up you guys, welcome back to my channel. If you're new, hi, hello I'm Lydia. Please consider hitting the subscribe button to join our growing family. We're aiming to reach 10k by the end of the year. I know we can do it if we work together. Share my account. Let's raise awareness. So changing medication is stressful. There's side effects to taking into consideration and if you're in America there's the question of will it cost more? Can I afford it? I mean I'm not American so please take that with a pinch of salt because I've known them to America. Please feel free to correct me in the comments if I'm wrong. The first experience I had was with antidepressants. Now the first antidepressant I was on was fluoxity and also known as Prozac and my god it sent me manic which led to my first hospital admission where obviously I was taking off it. I was started on lithium at a thousand milligrams. No builds up just straight on to a thousand milligrams. The hospital I was in was really bad and it got shut down but because the lithium reacted badly to me I stopped taking it and I went on to another antidepressant called Cetallopram. Now Cetallopram wasn't a good choice for me. It decreased my appetite and I was diagnosed with anorexia so it wasn't the best decision it got very serious with that. I let them increase the dose because I was happy because I was using weight and then eating disorder services got involved and they stopped the medication. The next antidepressant I was on was sertraline. I was sertraline I can't really remember it that well. If you're interested in my experience with medication I'll link a video up on the icard where I go about the medications I've been on. The transition between different antidepressants was always the thing in my mind was is it going to send me manic? Then we start with anti-psychotics. The first anti-psychotic I was put onto was Cretiopein. Autonomous Sericwell. Now me and sericwell because we had seen that I was like Cretiopein. Me and Cretiopein was a love-hate relationship. I loved it because it let me. It got me to sleep. I've always had problems with sleep. Even when I was a kid I had issues so when I was going on to medication to help me sleep I was very happy. Getting back to the subject of the video changing medication was difficult. The sericwell I had a love-hate relationship with and eventually I got stopped because I was putting on so much weight I was really unhappy and it didn't help my psychotic symptoms. So I was put onto Clopixel. I was on a very low dose of 10 milligrams and honestly I reacted really badly to it. Then there were other anti-psychotics I got put on to try and the only one that's weird is Halopherodone which is what I'm on now. When I was changing medications it was always what the new side effects going to be. The truth about changing medications is you never know what you but say the transition for me from quick therapy into Halopherodone. That transition took time because I was on 600 milligrams of quick therapy and I was starting out on 0.5 milligrams of Halopherodone so they kind of switched place because my psychiatrist at the time didn't want to just take me off the quick therapy and she wanted to lower it slowly. I think that's the thing medication is it's so difficult when you're trying to find the right medication for you because there are so many medications out there and they all have their side effects and now if you react to it good then congratulations it's when the side effects make you worse. So I take Halopherodone twice a day at five milligrams. Things to remember when you're changing medication. One, don't expect the worst. Two, I know for me with Halopherodone I was put into psychos. I think I'm saying that right. I hope I'm saying it right because I was really stiff. I'm stiff anyway because I have arthritis in most of my joints and I have had since I was 17. Oh my god that's 10 years in December. Oh my god but yeah it's I want you guys to remember that changing medication isn't scaring. You have to go into it with an open mind because you never know when you're going to find your miracle drug. I remember I was on Lomontrogene for two weeks I think it was and I got a rash so I spoke to my GP and my GP told me not to take it. If you're interested in my Lomontrogene journey I'll link it up on the icard because I did make videos when I was on it and it did work with my mood but I had to stuff it because of like another rash so danger zone. So yeah that's all I've got for this video. If you're new subscribe. I actually check out some of my other videos. I talk about all different things. There's plenty of playlists. Thank you for watching and I'll see you in my next video. Peace.