User Reviews for Stelazine oral

I was prescribed Stelazine around 1970 for a condition hardly known at the time, on the supposition that I was "pre-schizoid". What I really had was depersonalization/ derealization syndrome. But that's all beside the point. This drug I could call the pill from hell; and I later learned it was a drug of choice in the Soviet Union for softening up dissidents, AKA "mentally ill" people. Its pharmacological affinities with with thorazine, etc. notwithstanding, it has an 'effectiveness', as it were, distinct from causing tranquility. It was like a psychotropic egg-beater were shoved into the mind and turned on. Thought-processes were mangled with a terrible sense of confusion; ideation was realized in disconnected phrase units. Externally-viewed by others I could imagine the appearance of tranquilization: here's a subject no longer concerned with CIA alien insects beaming mind-control rays through the walls. That wouldn't be because your deranged thinking was calmed down, as with other antipsychotics, but because your thought-processes had become too disarticulated to assemble such a fanciful scenario, let alone sustain it. Mind, I had no psychotic ideation in the first place, being misdiagnosed, as I said. This was so taxing to deal with, I was left in cycles of exhaustion and would lie down to sleep it off. But that wasn't the worst of Stelazine: I could hardly  b r e a t h e  except through a deliberate act of will. The breathing reflex was virtually gone. I had to spend my every conscious seconds pulling air into my lungs and letting it out. In... and out.... in...and out... Minutes, hours, with these mangled thoughts, and the barely sustainable chore of doing what everyone does naturally: getting oxygen. Which all made the business of collapsing to sleep even more imperative. So on this double whammy, one can see how the word "tranquilizer" applies to this thing: You're too mentally battered with incoherent thoughts to sustain irrational thoughts, and too invested in breathing to concentrate on space aliens. That was one pill, and I stopped right then and there. Perhaps I escaped with my life from asphyxiation. Age of patient: I was 20 at the timeRead More Read Less

I have taken this drug for 31 years. I have been stable for 31 years. (I have bipolar disorder.) I hope it is never discontinued.

great

Was diagnosed in 1979 with Schizophrenia after a psychotic episode that followed years of drug abuse ending with a heavy period use of Angel Dust. I have been taking 2mg per day for almost 30 years and am prescribed through my family physician. I have had a femoral by-pass associated with being a smoker. I was able to perform sports activities at an above average rate for many years. I am now 60. If I may be late with my pill or miss a dose I get more talkative and need to monitor my subject matter. It has been a Godsend for me really. Many before me would have loved having access to this and other aids for Schizophrenia.Read More Read Less

Sedation, fatigue, some dizzyness

The drug worked very well for me.

I have bipolar, manic and Stelazine 4mg has worked when nothing else has. It gives me hand tremors and loss of libido though which I hate. It really works though .

I was diagnosised with schizoaffective disorder back in 1989 and this medication, as long as I take it everyday, 30mg, which I have been since then, has restored me back to my way of thinking, & being myself.

Olanzapine 10mgs a day Mirtazapine Zopiclone 15 mgs nocte

I WAS 8 YEARS ON 5 MG DOSE. FOLLOWED BY RISPERDAL 2 MG FOR 18 YEARS. MY NEUROLIGIST SAID THIS CONTRIBUTED TO MY DRUG RELATED PARKINGSON'S.

treating the above condition with this drug is like treating ashtma with zyklon b