Posted by SLS on June 24, 2008, at 13:15:34
In reply to police and schizophrenia case, posted by Jeroen on June 24, 2008, at 10:13:11
> so now i am on clozapine 3 weeks but its not helping,
Neither are you helping clozapine.
Give it a chance. Take it for at least two months before giving up on it.
I normally don't write to you because I find your case so frustrating. You are never compliant with treatment long enough to gather any information about your illness. I think the last thing I wrote is that you should slow down.
Just let these medicines get you well, and stop confounding your treatment.
This is not easy.
Do you have the courage to get well?
If so, then you need to start listening to professionals and not Psycho-Babble. You need the fortitude to remain on drugs long enough for them to work, just like anyone else afflicted with your condition needs to be. Since I have seen doctors require of their schizoid patients that they remain on a drug for at least two months, and I have seen the majority of them improve, I would say that painful patience is what you will have to exercise in the future. You might have to go back and try the drugs that you don't feel you gave an appropriate amount of time to work. That is a hopeful thought on my part. Clozapine works for more people than any other of the newer "atypical" neuroleptic antipsychotics.
I have aborted drug trials prematurely. I did so more often when I was at my sickest. This is a paradox of sorts. It was painful to continue for so long with one treatment when I needed relief so desperately in the present. I couldn't wait for the future.
I needed to go back and retry several drugs that I had failed to alot the necessary amount of time to work. However, this is truly hard to evaluate objectively given all of my treatment failures along the way. Since I did exercise patience this last attempt at treatment, I got lucky, and it worked. What made the last 1 1/2 years easier is that I stayed on medication long enough to get partial relief. It is much easier to be patient when you are feeling even a little better.
Allow time for clozapine to begin helping, even if that means staying with it for a few months. When it begins making you feel a little better, you will not only have less pain to persevere, but you will have true data that there is a possibility that the drug will work more and more as time goes along.
Stop beating your head against the wall. It is an easy way to start to feel better.
I have a wonderful idea. Spend two weeks away from Psycho-Babble and use the time to do your own research on Google and Medline and confer with your doctor afterwards. You'll see a whole bunch of scary stuff as well as promising stuff written. Use the results of your research to formulate a list of questions about your treatment. Let no question be unasked. I do not believe you know how to interpret your research findings as well your doctor. See for yourself that clinicians give antipsychotics for schizoid disorders trial periods of months rather than weeks. Of course, it does happen sometimes that someone will respond during the first week of neuroleptic treatment. However, you cannot compare yourself to any single person and define treatment periods by that standard.
"The wisdom of patience comes in knowing
that one must give Time time to work."
- Scott
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