Your doctor should know
You need to talk to your doctor or pharmacist before starting treatment with chlorpromazine if any of the following apply to you:
- you have high blood sugar (symptoms include being thirsty all the time, needing to wee often, decrease in appetite and/or feeling weak)
- you have ever had seizures (fits)
- you have Parkinson’s disease
- you have heart problems, or a family history of heart problems including strokes and heart failure
- you have ever had blood clots, or you have a family history of blood clots
- you have myasthenia gravis, with weak or tired muscles that can make it difficult to breathe
- you have an underactive thyroid gland (hypothyroidism)
- you have liver or kidney problems
- you have glaucoma (raised pressure in the eye)
- you have a condition called phaeochromocytoma (high blood pressure caused by a tumour near the kidney)
- you have an enlarged prostate gland