"Boris" <imejl@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> <pengwin2@webtv.net> wrote in message
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>> Ask your doc to switch. I could not experience any pleasure or feel
>> sensation and paced back and forth for 12 hours a day on Risperdal. It
>> was torture.
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>> Low doses of risperdal were ok but I experienced voices 24 hours a day
>> on low doses.
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>> penguin
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> Fucking antipsychotics. They are so imperfect. I wish they would do more
> research on finding new and better antipsychotic drugs because this is
> torture.
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> I have tried 4 out of 5 atypical AP and with every one of them I don't
> feel good as I want to. All that is left for me is to try Clozapine but I
> am very scared because it can cause agranulocytosis and diabetes. And even
> though I feel miserable, I don't want to die.
Had a look at the wiki page on agranulocytosis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agranulocytosis
Nasty, nasty stuff, also associated with gum disease (?!). But it doesn't
appear to be fatal. I have poorly controlled diabetes and that hasn't been
fatal to me, either. I'd say talk to your MD and see how s/he feels about
this one medication you haven't tried yet. (And I say MD because s/he might
know more about physical diseases than your psychiatrist.)