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cashart10 · 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by pirilin

Are you having side effects? or is just the number of meds that worries you. Both. The clozapine makes me entirely lethargic for quite some time into the day. It makes me like a zombie who slobbers out of control. I literally wake up with wet hair because of my slobbering (disgusting, I know.) There are other side effects that I won't mention.
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[QUOTE=Blue_Bird;4984602]Do they help? Do you feel you could do with less? They help with mania and to an extent psychosis. If the meds were working for me, I'd be less concerned. They do nothing for my now crippling depression and suicidal ideology . My pdocs practice (in my opinion) is to increase meds to the maximal dose and then add a new one without trying to wean me off of the other one. Sometimes I have no idea what side effects are from what med.

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Have a talk with your pdoc. Ask him to review the meds you're on. What together well for you?
they're each targeting, etc Good luck!

I have had the discussion on the medication and my fear of it numerous times. He just says this is what we need to do to until I am better. I seriously believe I am treatment resistant. I have discussed with him that I may not be the Sarah I am expected to be ever again.

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I used to be on a lot of meds and it was really doing more harm than good. Now I'm on 3 main meds and 1 prn. Doing a lot better.

I take several meds, and together they work well. I don't like having several prescriptions

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Originally Posted by BastetsMuse

The question would be, are they working, but over time it ends up that I need them. I don't think pdocs should be measured by the number of prescriptions they write but by whether they work.[/I]QUOTE] I think you are correct in saying that docs shouldn't be measured by the number of prescriptions they write but by whether they work. I find myself, zombified with an ability to do little and my family fed up.
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