Frisium/Clobazam Side-Effects?

Question

Anybody taking Clobazam-Frisium suffer any bad side-effects?

Answer 1

Clobazam only has a licence for prevention of fits in epilepsy. It is frowned upon by many neurologists as tolerance may occur. I occasionally found it useful in elderly patients with dementia who developed fits, but were unsuitable for investigation. It is easy to titrate and has no side effects, other than the normal benzodiazepine issue of always producing addiction. This of course was not an issue in these cases as the drug would never be stopped anyway.