coming off medication

It is likely that going off his meds will cause his symptoms to return. Your brother needs to really consider what will happen to his life if he goes off his meds and he has a major episode with his disorder. He should discuss his options with his doctor. Many people with mental disorders become stabilized on meds and feel they no longer need the meds. They fail to make the connection that it is due to the meds that they feel better. I hope your brother will talk to his doctor first before discontinuing his meds.

I never had symptoms till starting meds. Now I have migraines nausea vomiting, I never I repeat never have appetite. I also developed muscle problems like I have had a cramp in my elbow for almost a year. The doctors did a biopsy and genetic testing they found the medication to have caused a cellular dysfunction in my muscles and most likely throughout the rest of my body and organs that is responsible for my symptoms and their is no cure. The genetic testing ruled out all known muscle diseases caused by genetics or genetic mutations, or inheritance, the medication is probably the cause. Basically this medicine is given to people who don�t have good health care it is billed as a cure. All patients are labeled for life with this diagnosis and there is no way to prove you do not have the illness in that respect is not a very scientific diagnosis. In science for a theory to be accepted and it still doesn�t mean it is 100 percent guaranteed to be true, there has to be the possibility to disprove it, this is not the case with schizophrenia.

The fact that psychiatrists dole medication out the way they do is unjustified. Apparently disfiguring someone for life with Tardive Dyskinesia is not a big deal. Nor are painful muscle spasms in which the patient falls off the bed and lies in convulsions on the floor. Apparently this helps with mental distress. I would love to inject those doctors with some Haldol in their ass-cheeks. Then, we would see what they thought of their "medicine."