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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?
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Psychiatry · New York Medical College
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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...

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Psychiatry · South Broward Hospital District
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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...

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