She spoke of low dose clozapine again. I’d be willing to try it a 2nd time and stay at a lower dose and then not get lots of side effects and have to stop like last time.
Would clozapine be a good thing to try (retry) at this point? Has anyone here really been helped by clozapine? Or not? What is considered a low dose? Can you take another AP pill with clozapine (like aripiprazole) or will that be unnecessary?
I think this has to be my next move. I will probably call my dr tomorrow.
dear Plady when I was very young I got put on 600 mg Clozapine because I was fluid psychotic and Guess what. After 6 week the entire psychosis went a way but I had all the well known side effects so I quit.
For me clozapine works no better than haloperidol except clozapine gave me tons of side effects and haloperidol gives me next to none. I couldn’t be paid to take clozapine again.
I’m on 200 mg clozapine, originally I was experiencing high hunger, wanting to sleep all the time, and salivation…but it’s kept me out of the hospital for over 6 months now whereas prior to taking it I was in the hospital almost every month. It’s helped me like nothing else. Now my doctor added Vraylar, 1.5 mg, and I’m sleeping a lot less (like going from 14 hours a day to 6-7).
I know folks can tolerate certain meds but clozapine is still bad. If you keep passing out might want to stop. I was scared of clozapine. I hope it wo out for y’all.
It’s definitely not enough yet. BUT it’s working a bit.
Unfortunately, I have bad side effects of weight gain and tachycardia and sleepiness.
So what do I do? I have no idea… My pdoc is out of town for a few weeks. I don’t know if going up higher in dose will help erase those voices and monsters in my head completely, or if I should just stick where I am, and learn how to fight back against them, and do things anyway.