Posted by JahL on February 27, 2001, at 15:09:36
In reply to Re: Tremors in Toronto-is clumsiness same thing?, posted by Dubya on February 26, 2001, at 20:48:22
> Hi, I am on 20mg clomipramine, I feel drowsy, almost too much, I had clumsiness as in accidentally knocking things over when I was anxious (I didn't tell this to my psychiatrist). I am hoping that this medication will help. I have been taking this med for 5 weeks. So far, I have taken 10mg for the first 3 weeks and then 20mg for the past 2 weeks. Coincidentally, after having increased the dose to 20mg, either I'm crazy or I've been noticing that I'm drowsier than ever.
Dubya, can you tell me why yr pdoc has you on such a TINY dose of Clomipramine (esp. for OCD)?
The STARTING dose for obsessive behaviour is 25 mg, moving SLOWLY upwards towards the 100-150mg range. Even for simple depression the lowest rec'd dose is 30mg.
Max dose is 250mg (300 for tough cases like mine).
Clom. felt a v. 'powerful' drug when I took it & it's not surprising it's effecting yr co-ordination etc. However the side-effects do abate somewhat; I know this because I was on 15x the dose you are on, for some time, and I found it tolerable.
Jah.
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