I once quit clozapine. Struggled with insomnia for months. Now I take a low dose for sleep.
I was going to discontinue clozapine due to tachycardia, but as soon as the dose dropped to 100 mg I became suicidal. Went back up to 300 mg and that went away. Added a beta blocker for the tachycardia.
I was on Clozapine years ago and it worked really well.
I was on that for half a year.
I can not recommend anybodies who have been using this meds for years to go of it. Because there’s no alternatives to this meds.
Clozapine was hell. I tried to quit cold turkey and ended up having a grand mal seizure. The only way i was able to get off it is when my doctor put me on invega. For some reason there was less withdrawal, but i was starving all the time and could only sleep 6 hours a night. I’m still struggling with sleep even now. I have very strong feelings against clozapine, but some people need it so idk
I am thinking of slowly discontinuing Clozapine cause of that too, tachycardia AND OCS . I am at 125 mg daily now…and feel “so-so”
Just don’t wanna relapse. I’ll see what my pdoc says next appointment
What’s OCS? I’m not sure what that stands for…
Obsessive compulsive symptoms