Posted by Thomas123 on February 26, 2003, at 15:14:52
In reply to Re: Anyone on typical antipsychotics?, posted by stjames on February 26, 2003, at 14:27:05
There is small minority of people with schizophrenia who refuse to switch to atypicals. These people are oftenimes given their illness overachievers.
These people conciously choose typicals over atypicals even when they can obtain atypicals.
Atypicals are oversold as revolutionary drugs. I think they are better but the improvement is modest from an efficacy standpoint. Still side-effects are less. There is assumption people on these drugs will fail to develop tardive dyskinesia. It is too soon to say however as people have been on the drugs (excepting Clozaril) only for a decade or so.
Clozaril and Seroquel might be good bets but the others are problematical.It might be a different ballgame with Abilify which is a weak dopamine agonist.
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