Posted by Solstice on February 27, 2012, at 0:21:00
In reply to Re: Saphris - how long to kick in? » Solstice, posted by SLS on February 26, 2012, at 19:45:51
> > If Saphris is going to work, how long does it generally take to kick in?
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> For bipolar mania, my guess is 3 - 7 days. I hope someone else will chime in on this. By comparison, it can take several weeks for an AP to work in schizophrenia.I finally found something on NAMI that said that *some* improvement in *some* patients make be noticed in a few weeks, but that full benefits may not be noticed for 6 - 12 weeks or longer. This info was geared for schizophrenia, but I'm thinking that even if it's faster for bipolar symptoms, it probably isn't too much faster. She just took her fifth dose.
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> How long did it take for the Geodon to begin working?It seemed like it was right away - like the next day she woke up a different person. Of course, things had been so difficult for so long, it's entirely possible that it was more gradual than that, but that even minor improvements were huge in their impact.
Best of all, she had absolutely zero side effects. Of course, that has made it really hard to get used to having all the trouble we've been having finding another medication that works like Geodon did.
> > The good news is that at the moment, those frightening physical symptoms have subsided.
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> This is good news, indeed.
Yes it is, and it continues to be relatively okay. I'll try to get her psychiatrist on the phone tomorrow to see what she thinks. I guess that since it might be unrealistic to expect Saphris to be fully effective just yet, as long as she doesn't have those side effects again, we should probably hang in there and give it a chance.Solstice
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