Ive been on clozapine for nearly 2 years but not getting better as I had hoped. Is there a chance of recovery after having been on clozapine 900 mg What next
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I was on high dose clozapine for years and it didn’t help. But using polypharmacy has done good where clozapine didn’t
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what is polypharmacy?
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Multiple different meds
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Like how many different meds?
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I think taking different kind of meds has helped me:
An antidepressant
Typical ap
Atypical ap
Anxiolytic
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For example clozapine and abilify seems to be better than clozapine alone.
Results: All patients completed 3 months’ combination treatment. There was a significant reduction in the mean BPRS score in seven patients (63.6%) over the 3 months of combination treatment. Augmentation with aripiprazole in clozapine-treated patients did not result in a corresponding increase in adverse effects. Use of the combination allowed a significant reduction in the daily dose of clozapine.
Conclusions: Combined application of clozapine and aripiprazole is in accordance with a neurobiological rationale and appears to be safe and well tolerated without increased risk of adverse effects.
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I take Abilify, Seroquel, Lithium, Neurontin, and Vistaril. Does me just right!
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That’s a lot of milligrams! Ha! Glad it is working for you.
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You have no idea man. 20mg of Abilify, 1200mg of Lithium, 1800mg of Neurontin, 100mg of Seroquel, 150mg of Vistaril… All of that is divided, of course…
But you’re right that polypharmacy works sometimes when individual drugs don’t. It’s worked very well for me.
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my mom takes that shes addicted seems to help
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