i was diagnosed with schizophrenia many years ago due to hearing voices. i have been on haldol which was crippling, got off it, then onto risperdal, geodon, and seroquel. the most tolerable is risperdal however i tend to need something to help me get to sleep very badly. i dont fall asleep easily. thats when my psychiatric nurse moved me on to geodon then seroquel along with risperal. both of these i find not very tolerable at all. with seroquel i will sleep very sound though i might suffer some bad hallucinations getting there. and i will oversleep with it. with geodon i will sleep ok, get to sleep easy enough, though when i wake up i dont want to get out of bed. if i do i simply retreat to my bed and just lay there sort of hoping i could sleep or rest but just lay down for many hours and when i do finally get out of bed when i move around i will put on these horrible faces due to me not being able to tolerate it. risperdal would be ok if i could sleep. the voices are pretty much not an issue. i was hoping if someone could suggest a medicaid medication that might work given what i have said that i can suggest to my psychiatric nurse.

i would appreciate it very much since i feel my psychiatric nurse has run out of options. i dont know what she will put me on next.

thank you very much