Thread: New Medication
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Old Feb 19, 2016, 12:35 AM
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Originally Posted by rep97 View Post
So I am taking this new medication to treat schizophrenia... it is called clozapine. Does anyone else take it here?

I got blurry vision last night and I couldn't see much... and I get hungry a lot so I have put on weight too...

Does anyone else take it? If so, what side effects did you have and did your doctor stop it after sideeffects?
Clozapine is the most effective AP drug on the market for dealing with Treatment Resistant Schizophrenia.

I assume that with Clozapine a part of its effectiveness is down to the fact that people who are on it , generally take it, because it becomes harder to dupe the pdocs because of blood draws. What i'm saying is that lots of people that are termed treatment resistant , are folks that wont take their meds consistently and at the recommended dose. For nearly all other drugs, because there are no blood draws, it cant be proved one way or the other if persons are compliant. Depot injections of course, are outside of that.

So give clozapine a whirl and if it does not work for you , don't discount other meds , that may work , but only if you take them as prescribed.

When I wasn't getting any better , my pdoc gave me 2 choices Clozapine or Depot injection. I thought to myself ok, here are 2 forms of meds that I will have to take as prescribed , not much choice , so why not choose the med that was right for me. But this time , I would have to make it work (take my meds consistently). It was either that, clozapine, or injections..