The last symptom?

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Since discharged, apart from the dizziness, mum had been getting better on many fronts:
  • More facial expression
  • Getting better at the physio exercises
  • Walked faster
  • Folded clothes on daily basis and sometimes washed some dishes and/or wiped table after dinner
She continued to sleep well at night and her appetite had been pretty good.

However, the dizziness remained as bad. She claimed that the previous over-the-counter medicine, dimenhydrinate, worked a little better than betahistine (medicine prescribed by the ENT specialist) i.e. when she took the latter, the dizziness was worse. I asked a friend who is a pharmacist and he said that betahistine is actually stronger than dimenhydrinate and so my mum could just switch back if she wanted to.

On the weekly appointment day, the psychiatric doctor was ok with the switch. She also said that olanzapine doesn't cause dizziness (which contradicts what I found out online from more than one source). Clozapine could cause dizziness but only from a sitting position to standing position. However, mum's dizziness lasted to no ends the moment she got up from a lying position till she laid back down again. 

So the doctor will wait till after mum sees the ENT specialist a second time.

Her dizziness improves slowly and by the time she attended the second physiotherapy, she could do more iterations of the exercises.

By the time mum went for the 10th blood test (the first few times was done when she first started clozapine in ward), she was in much better shape:
  • Could joke around
  • Had "normal" conversation
  • Started driving again
  • Filled up the pill organisers by herself
  • Her dizziness lessened

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William said…
Excellent progress!
January 13, 2019 at 8:21 PM
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