Are you close to any major university medical schools? (e.g. UCLA, Columbia University Medical school in NY city, etc.). These are usually the best place to get treatment for harder cases like your sisters. I recommend you also contact the early psychosis treatment centers close to you to see if they will accept your sister or can suggest other good places close to you:
For anyone seeking help for someone (or themselves) if they think they might have schizophrenia or even if they know they have schizophrenia - here is a list of early psychosis treatment centers around the world that can help you get high quality treatment - often for free (because they are research centers trying out the newest and best treatment approaches on people).
Here are three different lists. If one is not close to you - contact (phone is best) the closest one and see if they can reco…
Generally the best treatment for your sister’s type of case (called “Treatment Resistant Schizophrenia” is Clozapine. Have you tried it?
Here is more information:
Clozapine is a psychiatric medication and is the first atypical antipsychotic (also called second-generation antipsychotic) to be discovered. It is primarily used to treat people with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder who have had an inadequate response to two other antipsychotics or who have been unable to tolerate other drugs due to extrapyramidal side effects. It is also used for the treatment of psychosis in Parkinson's disease.
Common adverse effects include drowsiness, constipa...
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Jazz Pharmaceuticals Announces U.S. Commercial Availability Of Versacloz™ (clozapine, USP) Oral Suspension First liquid formulation clozapine for treatment-resistant schizophrenia Feb. 11, 2014 – Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc (Nasdaq: JAZZ) today...
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CONCLUSIONS: Minocycline’s effect on the MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery composite score and positive symptoms were not statistically significant. Significant improvements with minocycline were seen in working memory, avolition, and...
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So I’m currently on 100mg of Clozapine in the daytime and 325mg at night. I recently increased the daytime amount from 75mg. Trying to be positive about this, I’m really hopeful that the voices will eventually disappear, or at least melt away...
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and here are some more resources to read up on to get the best treatment for your sister:
Treatment-resistant symptoms complicate the clinical course of schizophrenia, and a large proportion of patients do not reach functional recovery. In consequence, polypharmacy is frequently used in treatment-refractory cases, addressing psychotic...
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http://www.currentpsychiatry.com/the-publication/past-issue-single-view/treatment-resistant-schizophrenia-what-can-we-do-about-it/52ba3a8f7626aab986d15c8af7f43015.html
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