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I have been on antidepressants for past 11 years for anxiety disorder. I was on escitalopram for last 3 years and it stopped working. My current psychiatrist started me on buspirone, clomipramine, fluvoxamine and clonazepam. Now I am on buspirone 10 mg 1-0-1, fluvoxamine 100 mg 1-0-1, clomipramine 75 mg 0-0-1 and clonazepam 0.25 1-0-1 I am having side effects like dry mouth, drowsiness and sexual dysfunction. I got a little improvement when starting these meds but now I am having many side effects. Now it's been 45 days since starting these meds. I do not know whether I am being over medicated or not. Is this combination of medicines in these doses normal?
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Probably related to medicine. You should consult your treating doc and expressed your concerns.
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Only your Dr. can ans about this coz no one else has saw, he prescribed it, what kind of symptoms you had.
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Hi, clomipramine is known to cause dry mouth, drowsiness and sexual dysfunction. Clonazepam might be having an additive effect on drowsiness. You should discuss with your psychiatrist to consider decreasing the dose of clomipramine and gradually tapering off clonazepam, it might help, if it doesn't then you will have to stop clomipramine.
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