Posted by Lou Pilder on February 23, 2012, at 16:52:47
In reply to Re: Daughter's Saphris Complaint, posted by Solstice on February 22, 2012, at 22:40:19
> Gosh.. by 8pm, my daughter was so irritable. She announced that she was NOT going to take that nasty medicine. She went on her typical hypo-manic pressured talking jag.. would not stop complaining about the taste and she found close to one million different ways to describe how awful it tastes.. "like cat poo that's been eaten and thrown up." Then she complained about the 'stupid' scientists who couldn't figure out how to make something not taste so bad. This went on for 45 minutes! I told her that her only other anti-psychotic options are those that cause weight gain, so she'd have to choose between a 30 min nasty taste every evening, or gaining weight. She was so angry. She stormed off to take a shower, but when she came back down she was a different person. The pressured random fast-talking was still going on, but she was silly - happy - giggling - had the kitten in her lap while she sang 'Thriller' and had the kitten 'dancing' to it. Real excitable and non-stop talking. *whew* it's exhausting.
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> I researched some things.. reading patient reviews.. and a lot of them said that initially they felt the brain-fog, but that it went away after a week or so. A lot of them also said they split their dose in half for several days before going back up to their prescribed dose. A good number of them were only prescribed 5mg.. and my daughter's is 10mg. So in order to hopefully minimize the brain-fog issue for her tomorrow at school, I split her dose so she took 5mg instead of 10. Maybe Friday night we'll go back to 10 and see if by the time school starts again Monday, maybe she'll feel clear headed.
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> I invite any feedback from anyone who has any info about Saphris!
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> Solstice
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> Solstice,
You wrote,[...I invite any feedback from anyone...].
The subject here is the use of the drug {Saphris}.
The drug has a constituant in it that was used as a gas in riot control in the 50's.
Lou
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