Clozaril and tachycardia

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Hey guys
Question. I been on Clozaril for about 10 years now. It was the only effective medicine to stop my auditory hallucinations.

This medication came with the side effect of tachycardia…
My pdoc at the time prescribed me a beta blocker (propranolol) to slow down my heart rate.

I’m gradually lowering my Clozaril dose. I’m at 125mg a day now but I feel confused and lost at some times.
If I get off Clozaril completely, do you think the tachycardia would go away? I never had that problem until shortly after starting Clozaril treatment

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Is beta blocker working?

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I had a similar issue, but not on that ap. My heart rate still runs high even after off the geodon. The propranolol has helped a lot. But I have a heart condition already, so maybe my advice isn’t any good.

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I’m on clozapine and taking beta blocker, thats why I asked…

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I didn’t have a heart condition before
But I did lower my propranolol to 30mg once daily instead of 40mg and my heart rate goes above 100

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Hey,

Yes the beta blocker is keeping my heartrate between 80-90 heartbeat a min resting

But I’m not sure if I will have to depend on the beta blocker for rest of my life? If I have to it’s fine, it is what it is

Like I said it all started after Clozaril
But again Clozaril saved my sanity from all the voices etc

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I just accepted that meds are for life…
I had 140 bits per minute before Nebivolol.
It still keeps my pulse at normal range.

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I’m also on clozapine and propranolol for tachycardia…I’ve only been on the beta-blocker about 2 weeks, I was having resting heart rate of 120. I wanted to go off the clozapine (I’m on 300 mg) but when I went down to 100 mg I started feeling suicidal again. The clozapine is the only thing that helps that, I can’t go off it. Hopefully the propranolol will take care of the tachycardia. What irritates me is that I had to advocate for the clozapine, then the atropine drops, then the beta-blocker…I mean, I TOLD the pdoc to initiate these things, which he should have known to add those things without me telling him. It’s frustrating.

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Once you try clozapine, you’ll never come off.
I’ve tried everything in beetween, but nothing beats clo.

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Clozaril was the only medication to work well for me. Again, it came with this tachycardia side effect

But no other medication subsided my voices. If it wasn’t for Clozaril I dunno where I would have been by now

Propranolol has worked great too for the tachycardia. But, as long as you are on Clozaril I believe that you will need a beta blocker too if you have Clozaril induced tachycardia

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I agree with both of you that for most Clozapine is superior to any other antipsychotics for positive symptoms for most people as well for me where only Clopixol had an comparbly effect.
I know that all the modern meds from the 90s and so forth that came after Clozapine were only jokes to me (a personally point of view not the view of science or other medication users) and most of aypical drugs quit working for me after one year of usage.