I’ve had it with clozapine. I’ve decided to give my pdoc an ultimatum the next time I see him at the end of the month. If he doesn’t start taking me off of clozapine I will take myself off of it. I am perfectly fine staying on my Abilify but I refuse to stay on clozapine.
Note: I am only at 200mg clozapine and it is currently not beneficial at all but is still giving me side effects
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What side effects are you getting?
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High cholesterol, sedation, weight gain, drooling that I choke on when I sleep, it makes me shaky, and it also makes me super constipated
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Wow! I don’t blame you for wanting to stop it. Maybe ask if there’s a different AP that you could take alongside your Abilify
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I used to be on 400 mg of clozapine. Currently I take 12.5 mg (next to Invega).
Be prepared to reduce it slowly and struggling to sleep. At least that was my experience.
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I can relate to your situation with the Clozapine I too find it totally unacceptable with the weight on Seroquel so I’m going to ask the doc to take me of Seroquel:
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Respect and obey your pdoc! They give you meds for a reason.
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I do respect my pdoc but if I obeyed them at everything they said I wouldn’t be where I am now.
I’ve been taking clozapine for 3 years.
I have no problem
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you are right Jeff. But sometimes I just have wishfull thinking that something could change for the better.
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I didn’t go past a week on clozapine because of side effects.
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