Hello,
my sister is diagnosed with schizophrenia for five years now and her main treatment was with haldol depot injections. However, she still occasionally has episodes when she needs to be hospitalized, not to mention all the side effects she’s been experiencing from Haldol.
I was reading a bit about schizophrenia treatments, and even though there isn’t too much that can be done, I came across info about Seroquel which is newer type antipsychotic medication that should at least have less side effects, but is Seroquel as effective as Haldol?
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Hi,
I was looking into the same subject since my brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was experiencing terrible side effects from Haldol (mainly restlessness and personality changes). He was both on depo injections and Haldol pills and that really didn't make too much difference at all.
As far as Seroquel is concerned, once we switched psychiatrists, he started him on seroquel mainly to eliminate the side effects, but as effectiveness is concerned, he told us to expect pretty much the same from Seroquel.
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