[sweetngentle]

My 19 yrs old son has schizophrenia. He was inpatient for 3 & 1/2 yrs. He now lives with me (spouse and I are living separetly). My question is this.....he is on so many meds and he still haw halucinations, hears voices, delussions, paranoia. He takes:
Neurontin 900mg
Seroquel 600mg
Wellbutrin 150 mg
Clozapine 325mg
Celexa 60mg
DDAVP 0.2 mg
This seems to me like a bit too much...but he is still have sz symptoms. Anyone have any suggestions? I have already taken him to 2 different p docs since he was discharged. The only thing they did was to reduce the dosage of seroquel from 1,000mg @day to 600mg @day and increase his clozaril by 100 mgs.
Sweetngentle

"Blessed are those who can give without remembering. and take without forgetting."
Elizabeth Bibesco

[Lexicon]

Wow! To my surprise, I have taken most of these meds! In some cases, though, it's not the amount of meds the patient is on, but how effectively they are working.

If your son is on all of these meds, then there is probably a very good reason. If you'd like to get them decreased or maybe find a different opinion on your son's condition, you could ask another doctor.

[sweetngentle]

These meds keep my son from much worse things. Once he had to go off clozaril and his sz symptoms shot off the charts. He talked to the ring on his finger...a bug on the wall...thought he was "cyclops"....in a word became extremely "psychotic"

After changing is meds a bit he was able to go back on clozaril. He had a relapse last December. The times he was hallucination were about 20-30 times a day. His paranoia and dellussions got so bad that he couldn't tell the truth from reality. As I was driving him to the hospital to be admitted he saw bigfoot in the car. I'm glad I didn't know that until after we had reached the hospital

Take Care,
Sweet

"It's never too late to be what you might have been". George Eliot

[swayneg]

I too have schizophrenia and was on many different "Meds"
for it. It wasn't till I went to a MHMR Clinic that the Staff worked on my coping skills and interpersonal skill was my Doctor able to reduce my "Meds".
Hope this helps. Steve

[jdc492]

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[moonlight]

Schizophrenia is such a hard thing to fight. It doesn't really surprise me that he is on so many meds. As long as he is taking and managing all of them it should me working a lot better.
Seroquil (sp) is what they put me on in my last hospital stay. It slows ya down a lot. Some of these drugs should not be taken all that regularly but for certain symptoms. Like this mofo. If you are his caretaker than you should find out on your own what each one does. Even find a different doctor and go to him with your questions, just as an informational thing. DO NOT insist on talking to your sons doctor--please from personal experience--lord I have to fight my mother on this almost every single day---you are there to help but as a third party. This is your son's battle and you can't fight it for him as much as you want to.
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moonlight

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