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What Causes Bed Wetting Incidents After Taking Saphris For Bipolar Disorder?

Hello, my son is 14 years old, and suffers from bipolar disorder..He is on 900 mg of lithium daily and 10mg of saphyris. He just started the saphyris 4 1/2 weeks ago. He has started having bed wetting incidents at night now. I was just wondering if this was a side effect of that medication. I have looked at some of the clinical pharmacology for it, but don't see it listed. If it is a side effect, will it stop, or lessen? Is it a serious side effect? He was on abilify but had some adverse effects and we had to discontinue it and start the saphyris.
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Saphyris does not cause urine incontinence, but due to its sedative effect sometime patient would not able to control urine while sleeping which lead to urine incontinence. it is not a serious side effect. Same could be the reason in ur case also. In that case either need to stop the drug or decrease the dose is required. Rest u can discuss with his treating psychiatrist.

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What Causes Bed Wetting Incidents After Taking Saphris For Bipolar Disorder?

hi thanks for using healthcare magic Saphyris does not cause urine incontinence, but due to its sedative effect sometime patient would not able to control urine while sleeping which lead to urine incontinence. it is not a serious side effect. Same could be the reason in ur case also. In that case either need to stop the drug or decrease the dose is required. Rest u can discuss with his treating psychiatrist. thanks