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I remember reading an article online several years ago about antipsychotics. It was saying that some of them bind temporarily with receptors in the brain, while others bind permanently, meaning that their effects are irreversible even when medication is stopped.
At the time I was so depressed I didn't care enough to look into it any further, I just took my meds. But since then I have begun to wonder if the meds I am on might be causing permanent brain damage. I am on Clozapine. I have tried to find this information again, but can find nothing on the subject whatsoever. My psychiatrist didn't know what I was talking about either. Does anyone hear know anything about this subject please? |
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I've been on antipsychotics for 15 years. I don't believe I have any brain damage. I haven't heard anything so severe as that except in posts by people who hate medications. Obviously there are people out there that spread false or exaggerated information about things. It's hard to always know what information online is true and what is not.
I'd believe your doctor over anything you read in some miscellaneous online article. However, if you feel you have cognitive issues, definitely bring them up with your doctor. |
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I know back when my pdoc was experimenting with different meds he put me on thorozine before I had my neck fusion surgery. On top of that my neuroligist had me on compozine for my nausea from the continual migraine pain I had.
After I had recovered from the surgery meds stayed the same. Then this horrible experience happened. I couldn't coordinate my hands to feed myself & I couldn't walk without assistance (not a result from the neck fusion) I went to urgent care thinking it was the beginnings of Parkinson's. Turned out they realized it was a reaction to the thorozine. I stopped taking that med & a month later still no improvement. Went back to the neurologist & he realizer thst the compozine was still causing the reaction...& stopped that med. He said that sometimes the reaction doesn't go away after being that bad. It took over a month longer but the reaction went away totally. Maybe permanent reactions even after going off a med is what they are referring to? __________________ Leo's favorite place was in the passenger seat of my truck. We went everywhere together like this. Leo my soulmate will live in my heart FOREVER Nov 1, 2002 - Dec 16, 2018 |
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@eskielover--I was put on compozine when I was younger for a stomach ailment and I even threw that up. And my mother STILL denied there was anything wrong with me. Migraines are awful.
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