Khameer Kidia
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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So together with her psychiatrist, I ended up forcing her to start the drug.
Um quatiapine, which is a, you know, uh atypical antipsychotic drug that has many side effects, which I'll talk about in a second.
Um, and I watched her take the pills every day.
And I did, you know, what we call directly observed therapy, um, uh where I gave her the pills and watched her take it with um a glass of water, and I begged her to please carry on taking.
These meds while I was gone.
And, you know, I said, please, mom, um, take these meds while I've gone if you do nothing at all.
Um, and I noticed that the quotipene really helped with her anxiety.
She started to sleep more.
She was sleeping a lot.
Sometimes 10, 12 hours a night, she'd wake up.
Um, she was less impulsive when she woke up.
She was much less likely to start a fight.
She wasn't having these snappy outbursts.
But she told me that the meds were making her feel groggy and zonked out, and she was begging me not to take them.
And I said, please, mom, if you do one thing for me, take these meds.
So I go back to the US, and then a few months later, I get a call from her.
She's in the emergency department and she's been hospitalized because her blood sugars are through the roof.
And she's on IV insulin, and she had developed severe.
Severe diabetes from being on this drug because these atypical antipsychotics.
you know, like uh like quatiopine and olanzepine, um, they cause metabolic syndrome, which causes heart disease, diabetes, weight gain, and you know, they're used very heavily in patients with schizophrenia.
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