I just increased my clozapine from 225mg to 250mg 3 days ago.
And now since yesterday I’m not able to speak properly, i stop in middle of the sentence, i mumble, i forget the words i wanna say. I simply go confused about what i wanna say and words come out incorrect.
I have been taking clozapine since 5 years and never had this problem.
Pdoc said to please go back to the previous prescription when I was doing well. I said ok, i will go back to 225mg.
I have stuttering. I take 800mg of Clozaril a day and was also on 30mg of Prolixon a day. I thought my stuttering was due to the Prolixon so went off it. My stuttering has somewhat stopped but not completely.
I had this side effect when I went up in dosage too quickly…for example, when I first started clozapine I went from 50mg-300 in a couple of days…like you I couldn’t communicate properly…I had in my mind what I wanted to say but it came out different.
We started from scratch after that…going from 12.5 for a week to 25mg for a week, going up by 50mg every week or so until I got to 300mg…and since have not had any issue…
I have great empathy for you as I know how horrible and scary that is…
I would like to update that my speech problems on clozapine was because of myoclonic jerks(type of seizures), when i increased my anticonvulsant drug dose, the speech problems went away