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liesagain · 06-25-2009, 03:44 PM

Thanks for the replies..........

Clayton, the doctor is a psychiatrists. Basically having has one episode of psychosis apparently isnt "enough" to as the doctor said.............label his with the diagnosis and keep him on meds for life. So apparently the treatment plan after initial psychosis is to use the meds for a year then stop them. They told me that there was only a 5% chance that the mania and psychosis will never return again.........( as a mom I was clinging to that 5% for dear life) but most likely it would return............the question at that time was when. They said it could take weeks or months even years.

So I guess the upside is it happened sooner(while he was still living at home)

We( he and I) are trying to learn all we can about the illness so all imput is great!!!

oh yeah..the geodon....he developed the prolonged Qt intervale an ECG/EKG change ( a rare side effect)and cant ever take that again.............

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liesagain Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: limbo Posts: 2,848	Thanks for the replies.......... Clayton, the doctor is a psychiatrists. Basically having has one episode of psychosis apparently isnt "enough" to as the doctor said.............label his with the diagnosis and keep him on meds for life. So apparently the treatment plan after initial psychosis is to use the meds for a year then stop them. They told me that there was only a 5% chance that the mania and psychosis will never return again.........( as a mom I was clinging to that 5% for dear life) but most likely it would return............the question at that time was when. They said it could take weeks or months even years. So I guess the upside is it happened sooner(while he was still living at home) We( he and I) are trying to learn all we can about the illness so all imput is great!!! oh yeah..the geodon....he developed the prolonged Qt intervale an ECG/EKG change ( a rare side effect)and cant ever take that again.............