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Old Jul 31, 2012, 01:34 PM
fishsandwich fishsandwich is offline
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Originally Posted by newtus View Post
if a psych puts someone on 2 diff antipsychs what does that mean
My psych used to put me on lower doses of two antipsychotics instead of a higher dose of one, kind of to mitigate the extreme side-effects. Instead of a handful of devastating side-effects, I'd get two handfuls of less-serious ones.
There could be other reasons, though.
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