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Old Aug 22, 2023, 05:11 PM
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I've been having some tremors and they've been getting worse lately. It has just recently become more easy to get a clozaril level drawn so my pdoc ordered one and I had it drawn yesterday. It came back today as "urgent". 300-600 is normal; mine is 1376. So I'm going to be lowering my dose. I already was lowering it so we're going to get a week of that reduction in then reduce again and then probably again after I see my pdoc in Sept. She said she suspects I have been high for a long time and just adjusted to it. So I may actually be feeling much better soon. I have struggled with low blood pressure and orthostatic hypotension for several years. I am really hoping that this will fix it. My labs that are monitored when you are on clozapine have been good consistently so that's very good.


On the other hand if you are on clozapine I do not recommend looking up toxicity. Ugh.
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