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Old Dec 28, 2023, 11:41 PM
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So my doctor is out of town and his partner prescribed the muscle relaxant for my back. I was cautious in my email to the doctor, saying "if there's one I can take" because I'm on 2 meds with lots of interactions. She wrote back that I definitely could have a muscle relaxant. I now think she thought I was being cautious about asking for it instead of worried about interactions (because I knew my own dr knows to check everything). I just did a search and it interacts with clozapine. It's marked as major but I don't think it's that bad really; I'm pretty sure I've taken meds with the same level of interaction before. But now I'm nervous about the med and there's no way to get in touch with them until Tuesday. I guess I'll use with caution?

I can't believe this. I don't blame her; she had no idea that I was the interaction queen and if she's not familiar with clozaril she might not have known to check for interactions with it.

Oh well. Good thing my back is healing. I realize that this is partly the muscle relaxant but advil is helping a lot too.

Too much stress this week....
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