Thank you for this informative video. Lost my brother very suddenly due to heart failure. He unfortunately had treatment resistent schizophrenia. He had been on clozapine for several year's.
Did it ever occur to doctors that when the drugs preceding clozapine did not work..maybe.. it was because they don’t have a clue what they are doing to an individual-? Having seen firsthand how a relative was “diagnosed”, started ( involuntarily,with no explanation) on antipsychotics,speed tracked to injected neuroleptics,stopped and started on multiple drugs, put through cold turkey withdrawal into a life threatening physical decline- from withdrawal, to finally Clozapine and anti epileptic drugs, I can safely say the drugs create the condition for many people who were just highly stressed or traumatised. PTSD can be relabelled Schizophrenia.... side effects so far for relative- so much rapid weight gain scarred all over from huge red stretch marks,on top of older stretch marks . Brown liver spots on eyes. Pre diabetic. Nerve damage to heels. Incontinence. Inability to swallow properly. Seizures. Unable to stay awake - sleeping on off all day. Heart tremors. Hand tremors. Unable to tie own shoelaces or do up coat zips or buttons. Unable to find clothes that fit. The new reality from age 18 for one young person previously slim agile bright energetic and good looking with his life ahead of him. Every other type of treatment should be tried before neuroleptics . He is 24 now. 7 years of struggle to deal with side effects. Could not finish studies. Just let go full scholarship business degree , second one - he cannot produce enough energy to read anything. It is like watching someone slowly tortured . It slows down brainwaves,poisons the system and reduces function to bare minimum. Young people with still developing brains should NEVER EVER be prescribed this poison.
I don’t want to take away from positive experiences other people clients of health system may feel they have with this drug, but when I hear people say it reduces voices- one interesting fact of anti seizure meds is that some cause ‘ Aural Hallucinations’ - “ voices”. This is a totally neurological phenomenon or effect- nothing to do with psychiatric level mental illness. It may have a psychological impact- but people who are prescribed Lamictal when there is a very big clinical question mark proposed to them about their “mental health” are at a disservice by clinicians. As the next step to remedy that adverse brain event from treatment is - more treatment with stronger drugs. Catch 22 or Fait accompli by...x y z.
@@rumit9946 doctors do not seem to want to face facts about engineered psychosis, adverse effects like brain damage, diabetes,heart attacks, pneumonia and whether these are ACCEPTABLE dangers for the people they prescribe these to. Clozaril is a last resort drug.
This poison really hurt me bad and they call it medicine. I was 16 when I was forced to take in 2003 it makes you gain sooo much weight and it’s not healthy as a child to gain weight young it can affect your metabolism when you’re older. It caused other dangerous side effects too I was having the worst diarrhea and was bedridden the first weak I took and and weeping in bed. I couldn’t read anything the doctors showed zero concern when I was in the hospital and wouldn’t let me out. It made me more crazy anyway and affected my personality made me feel like on being poisoned. It can affect white blood cells etc. it should be completely illegal. They are too busy going after pain management medication yes there’s an abuse epidemic going funny thing is lots of addicts are on antipsychotic because they make you feel like garbage so they abuse pain meds from the pain the medication causes. I have early arthritis and I suspect it’s these heavy medications that helped it develop. I was in my 20s when I developed it. I haven’t been the same I have been wanting to get out of government mental health for a long time. They make it very hard with bad care. If you’re poor and have emotional problems garbage antipsychotic medication is what they try to put you on. There’s a better alternative but the government doesn’t make money off it so patients suffer. I am not even a schizophrenic and I was put on this stuff
I've heard lithium can counteract a granulocytosis potentially caused by clozapine. Can you confirm this? This is at least what one of our psychiatrists has said at the place I work
Please listen to me..clozapine, first help me in a psicotyc attack,.than get me ocd and paranoid as i thought of isis in my house, and earthquackes comes soon...my psichyatric didnt belive me and said that it whas my desease, not the drug effects..and i decrease this drug by myself..than I stop with any psycotic.and its 6 years without them..I didnt get in psicosys anymore.Sorry for my english.I am italian
ciao , all mental illness actually will gone away naturally .. but if u got mental illness because of drugs or brain injury excident , maybe.this will lifelong illness and need treatment lifelong
@@polyannamoonbeam Metformin is routinely prescribed in Australia to those taking antipsychotics and there have been no documented problems to date. It works well to counteract the weight gain and Diabetes Type 2 caused by Olanzapine/Zyprexa and Clozapine and it also has anti aging properties. However, since it is not an expensive, profitable drug it may not be popular in countries where Big Pharma calls the shots.
My 20 year old son has been using clozapine for a year already and is working for him. He just showed me a rash he got on his groin and arms. It is not itchy , but I am so paranoid it could be the clozapine. He's going to doctor to get it checked
How in the name of God you can talk about all those horrible side effects and saying is good? Anyone here taking this "magic " pill, feeling great and no side effects????
One of the worst medications I was forced to take at 16 it could have killed me. Not even a schizophrenic bad violent child hood so they gave me this instead of helping me escape the violence and emotional abuse
Thank you for this informative video. Lost my brother very suddenly due to heart failure. He unfortunately had treatment resistent schizophrenia. He had been on clozapine for several year's.
Did he take it everyday?
You are just WOW
Thank you for this fast explination
Very informative video!Thanks!
Great explanation. Thank you!
Wow this was a great video, I hv been taking clozapine since 7 months nd I feel sleeping more is one of the side affects as well
Good Job!
U said bcoz of its sideeffects we prescribe it at last but here in india docters prescribe it in very starting. God save humanity from allopaths.
good video, thank you.
Thanks so much im going for a job as a clovapine health advisor
Did it ever occur to doctors that when the drugs preceding clozapine did not work..maybe.. it was because they don’t have a clue what they are doing to an individual-? Having seen firsthand how a relative was “diagnosed”, started ( involuntarily,with no explanation) on antipsychotics,speed tracked to injected neuroleptics,stopped and started on multiple drugs, put through cold turkey withdrawal into a life threatening physical decline- from withdrawal, to finally Clozapine and anti epileptic drugs, I can safely say the drugs create the condition for many people who were just highly stressed or traumatised. PTSD can be relabelled Schizophrenia.... side effects so far for relative- so much rapid weight gain scarred all over from huge red stretch marks,on top of older stretch marks . Brown liver spots on eyes. Pre diabetic. Nerve damage to heels. Incontinence. Inability to swallow properly. Seizures. Unable to stay awake - sleeping on off all day. Heart tremors. Hand tremors. Unable to tie own shoelaces or do up coat zips or buttons. Unable to find clothes that fit. The new reality from age 18 for one young person previously slim agile bright energetic and good looking with his life ahead of him. Every other type of treatment should be tried before neuroleptics .
He is 24 now. 7 years of struggle to deal with side effects. Could not finish studies. Just let go full scholarship business degree , second one - he cannot produce enough energy to read anything. It is like watching someone slowly tortured . It slows down brainwaves,poisons the system and reduces function to bare minimum. Young people with still developing brains should NEVER EVER be prescribed this poison.
I don’t want to take away from positive experiences other people clients of health system may feel they have with this drug, but when I hear people say it reduces voices- one interesting fact of anti seizure meds is that some cause ‘ Aural Hallucinations’ - “ voices”. This is a totally neurological phenomenon or effect- nothing to do with psychiatric level mental illness. It may have a psychological impact- but people who are prescribed Lamictal when there is a very big clinical question mark proposed to them about their “mental health” are at a disservice by clinicians. As the next step to remedy that adverse brain event from treatment is - more treatment with stronger drugs. Catch 22 or Fait accompli by...x y z.
@@polyannamoonbeam thank you doctor
@@rumit9946 doctors do not seem to want to face facts about engineered psychosis, adverse effects like brain damage, diabetes,heart attacks, pneumonia and whether these are ACCEPTABLE dangers for the people they prescribe these to. Clozaril is a last resort drug.
Very sad story. Doctors want to prescribe tis to my son also. Will try to block it. Sounds awful
This poison really hurt me bad and they call it medicine. I was 16 when I was forced to take in 2003 it makes you gain sooo much weight and it’s not healthy as a child to gain weight young it can affect your metabolism when you’re older. It caused other dangerous side effects too I was having the worst diarrhea and was bedridden the first weak I took and and weeping in bed. I couldn’t read anything the doctors showed zero concern when I was in the hospital and wouldn’t let me out. It made me more crazy anyway and affected my personality made me feel like on being poisoned. It can affect white blood cells etc. it should be completely illegal. They are too busy going after pain management medication yes there’s an abuse epidemic going funny thing is lots of addicts are on antipsychotic because they make you feel like garbage so they abuse pain meds from the pain the medication causes. I have early arthritis and I suspect it’s these heavy medications that helped it develop. I was in my 20s when I developed it. I haven’t been the same I have been wanting to get out of government mental health for a long time. They make it very hard with bad care. If you’re poor and have emotional problems garbage antipsychotic medication is what they try to put you on. There’s a better alternative but the government doesn’t make money off it so patients suffer. I am not even a schizophrenic and I was put on this stuff
I've heard lithium can counteract a granulocytosis potentially caused by clozapine. Can you confirm this? This is at least what one of our psychiatrists has said at the place I work
Imagine the presenter on speed. What would THAT look like
This guy is manic
Gee... I wonder why, in this job....
Please listen to me..clozapine, first help me in a psicotyc attack,.than get me ocd and paranoid as i thought of isis in my house, and earthquackes comes soon...my psichyatric didnt belive me and said that it whas my desease, not the drug effects..and i decrease this drug by myself..than I stop with any psycotic.and its 6 years without them..I didnt get in psicosys anymore.Sorry for my english.I am italian
ciao , all mental illness actually will gone away naturally .. but if u got mental illness because of drugs or brain injury excident , maybe.this will lifelong illness and need treatment lifelong
@@zackbro4886 i had meningitis caused by wrong spinal anestesia a few months before psycotic attack.."sono molto sfigata"😦
How did you stop that drug?
Very useful and informative review. Thank you so much!
Thank you for this informative video. You didn't mention Metformin, which has been shown to help reverse the weight gain caused by antipsychotics.
No... Clinician s are advised here not to prescribe due to other toxic effects. We looked into it and Hospital advised not safe..
@@polyannamoonbeam Metformin is be very safe and also has anti aging effects. Someone in my family takes it along with antipsychotics.
@@hadiyahalkauthar they refused to prescribe for our relative.
@@polyannamoonbeam Metformin is routinely prescribed in Australia to those taking antipsychotics and there have been no documented problems to date. It works well to counteract the weight gain and Diabetes Type 2 caused by Olanzapine/Zyprexa and Clozapine and it also has anti aging properties. However, since it is not an expensive, profitable drug it may not be popular in countries where Big Pharma calls the shots.
@@hadiyahalkauthar Ireland...
Are you from Hungary? Your name is sounds hungarian :)
what to if my doc put me on it i gained 15 kg please help she doesn't wanna lower it
Ask her to prescribe Metformin to help reverse the weight gain.
Hey. Didn’t SUBWAY fire you?
does he have mania?
Probably induced by the trauma of these job, long story short.
My 20 year old son has been using clozapine for a year already and is working for him. He just showed me a rash he got on his groin and arms. It is not itchy , but I am so paranoid it could be the clozapine. He's going to doctor to get it checked
I'm scared to death as the doctor offered it to my son recently. Does it work for your son? Does it help with psychosis?
@@gosiak2822 Yes me too. Dont want my 19 yr old son to take Clozapine
The generic caused a rash on my son, but not the original.
I never want to need to take ANY drug with side effects!! This has side affects so they seriously need to rectify this!
My Brain works harder then my mouth. This mans brain works as hard as his mouth.
This seems like a super bad choice
so many side effects , why consider then?
Causes sudden death
Accute pancreatitis
It should be completely banned
How in the name of God you can talk about all those horrible side effects and saying is good?
Anyone here taking this "magic " pill, feeling great and no side effects????
One of the worst medications I was forced to take at 16 it could have killed me. Not even a schizophrenic bad violent child hood so they gave me this instead of helping me escape the violence and emotional abuse
I gained all that weight on clozapine
Are you still on it
ME TOO!!! usually 45kg, yesterday i was at 48 kg, today its 49 kg
@@maxhammer4067 yea but my weight is coming down now
@@MurdaManKaron
Did you reduce your dose or did your body just get used to the medication
@@maxhammer4067 both, but I really started dieting and excercising , when I take my dose I get really hungry for some reason
Talk too fast and dont understand what he means> Oh my!
CLOZAPINE GIVES ME GOOD LONG SLEEP. WHAT HAPPENED IF I OVERDOSE CLOZAPINE?
Horrible drug.
I did toilet in pant