I almost always (last year was an exception but I'd just begun clozaril and was having a lot of sedation from it that wore off later) get hypo/manic/mixed in June. A couple of weeks ago I felt things going up a little and lowered my AD dose (I'm allowed). It stopped everything, including the hallucinations that had begun.

I've never done that before. I've never been aware of an episode when it was so faint that just a tiny change like the AD adjustment fixed the whole thing. I've never had that ability. In the past I wouldn't have been aware until I needed big med changes. But clozaril works for me and somehow I was much more aware.

My pdoc is so happy that I did this. She's been treating me 14 years so that's a long time to wait for someone to manage to do something that everyone has been trying to teach me for years.

I hope this continues. I can't imagine living with the ability to stop episodes before they ramp up. It's as good as they have always said it would be.