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Old Feb 16, 2016, 06:49 PM
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I'm home, in my pajamas and cuddled up with my orange cat who may never stop purring. I'm exhausted after missing my naps (all I really have wanted to do the last few days is sleep and they let me because they feel I really need it) and a little worried that I haven't heard from the pharmacy after the resident wrote the orders for gabapentin incorrectly (he wrote two different orders, one for the daytime doses and another for the night doses and he has to correct that so they can combine it before they can fill it. If they don't by tomorrow afternoon I may have to have them fill one bottle and deal with it when that runs out. I can make do tonight and probably part of tomorrow but it's just tricky, especially since I don't have an easy ride tomorrow and am not sure I"ll be driving. I sure couldn't have been safe today.

I'm on 175 mg of Clozaril twice a day, so 350 mg total. That's more than my pdoc had been aiming for but it is working and every day I'm feeling a little better. I think I finally started feeling it when I was on 250 mg divided. I could really do without the drooling at night (common side effect); it's gross. I may need a medicine to help with that. But otherwise it really hasn't had side effects. I'm tired and sleepy a lot but it doesn't seem to be from the clozaril as much as the clozaril plus gabapentin plus just being exhausted after so long without a decent week or even string of days of sleep

So glad to be home. I'm hoping to take meds about 8:30 and sleep until morning.
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Bipolar 1, PTSD, GAD, OCD.
Clozapine 250 mg, Emsam 12 mg/day patch, topamax 25 mg, ,Gabapentin 1600 mg & 100-2 PRN,. 2.5 mg clonazepam., 75 mg Seroquel and 12.5 mg PRNx2 daily
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