Posted by alienatari on February 4, 2007, at 21:59:01
In reply to Re: typical antipsychotics, posted by med_empowered on February 4, 2007, at 19:37:56
I know of the risk, he has told me of the risk and Ive read alot about the problems with combining haloperidol with lithium. LIke I was saying before, my Pdoc is well experienced and is in Research. I trust him. I dont want to change him he is not a bad psychatrist.
I cant try amoxapine because If i do that i have to stop clomipramine and I have severe OCD I dont want that to make things worse as I am on a high dose of clomip (200mg).
Anyway maybe Clozapine is the only thing left for me. *shrugs*
> I think you should avoid the haldol+lithium combo...this combo has caused serious problems in some patients. Can you switch shrinks? The risk w/ combining lithium and antipsychotic, especially haldol, is *not to be ignored*.
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> Anyway...I dont know what dose of valium you're on but..can you up it? Loxapine and moban would be my first pics for typical antipsychotics; after that, perphenazine and after that Mellaril, if your heart is OK. You might even want to try amoxapine..its like loxapine+an AD all in one.
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> Do see about another doctor.
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