Posted by bleauberry on July 22, 2008, at 20:13:11
In reply to i think i have TD from Clozapine, posted by Jeroen on July 21, 2008, at 8:12:57
I still have drooling in my sleep after being off of zyprexa a couple years. And a slight eye twitch. And trembling during movements of exercise, such as doing a push-up.
Hey, I don't think it is realistic for any of us to enter the world of powerful psychiatric drugs and come out of it the same way we went in. That is probably most especially true with antipsychotics. I'm not sure you can point the finger at clozapine because you've been on a bunch of others and high doses to boot. Things were probably already in the works but didn't elevate to the level of noticing them a lot until it was clozapine's turn to join in.
Or it could be side effects that will go away after being off clozapine for a while.
In any case, I hope your doctors are trying to think of ways to get you off the antipsychotic merry-go-round and do some other stuff. If destined to stay on them though, hey, I saw at pubmed where refractory patients were improved with a combination of Risperdal and Zyprexa.
Antipsychotics and TD. Length of time and size of dose.
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