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Originally Posted by BeyondtheRainbow
It is mine. It is very rare that I'm not mixed to some degree. Until clozapine it was pretty much always moderate to severe; now it is more mild dipping into moderate. A few months ago I had a month that my diagnosis was mild or moderate (don't remember) hypomania and that was actually weird because I see that so rarely.
Since clozapine works for me I've learned that if I feel symptoms I need to get treatment immediately if I feel any change. In the summer I avoided a big mixed episode by asking to do a 4 day pulse of a higher dose of clozapine; generally in the summer I have a bad episode and this prevented it.
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Were you able to stop or lower the dosage of another med when you got on the clozapine? I don't want to add any more meds or go to the pdoc sounding drug seeking. My mixed is not horrible, I suppose, as I tend to have depression/hypomania together or very close in time to one another. Only rarely will I be fully hypomanic or fully depressed. I do know if I start sleeping less and less (particularly under 5 hr. for me), full mania follows very quickly, and I need to call the pdoc ASAP. But my sleep is OK for now, and neither manic nor depressive sides seem to have the upper hand. Though maybe besides being situational, the depressive stuff could be ED stuff as well; lines blur.
Did you get any side effects from clozapine?
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