How do you approach titration or transitioning to Cobenfy in patients currently on an antipsychotic?
Are there any special concerns for antipsychotics with a higher anticholinergic burden?
Answer from: at Community Practice
Antipsychotics with significant anticholinergic activity, such as olanzapine and clozapine, can add to the effects of trospium contained in xanomeline-trospium combination. Product labeling reads "Concomitant use of COBENFY with other antimuscarinic drugs that produce anticholinergic adverse reactio...
I keep them on the antipsychotic that they are on, and depending on the response, I will slowly lower the original antipsychotic dose, but it depends on the patient. For example, I would start to lower the zyprexa and gauge for any reemergence of psychosis, but try and lower the zyprexa as much as p...