I have tried everything for 9 years to fix this. I tried good sleeping habits, a ton of supplements, avoiding blue lights, I even refused to change from glow lights to led, I’ve been really desperate.
I started to believe that the zyprexa had made irreversible damadge to my brain so I could not sleep. A few times I thought maybe it’s the generic zyprexa that’s not good for me, but I kept putting that in the back of my mind because in theory it’s supposed to be the same as original, even doctors say this.
But I finally decided to go back to original zyprexa, I had nothing left to lose, I probably would have died from fatigue soon if I hadn’t.
I started the switch about 3 months ago, the first month insomnia got even worse, I was in awful shape, had no chance to work, but then sleep started coming back to me. The last two months is the best I slept for the last 9 years.
The generic nearly killed me. I’m pretty sure it’s shaved some years off my life considering the strain I have gone through. I could be bitter about losing 9 years, but instead I feel lucky that I managed to figure this out before it was too late.
Sucks that you had to go through insomnia, it’s not fun, but nice that you figured out a fix. I guess the different brands of the same medicine are slightly different.
Yes, they are not the same, they have the same working ingredient olanzapine, but so do coffee and tea, caffeine. Maybe not a accurate comparison, but illustrates the point.
And people react differently to meds, so I guess the problem I had with this particular generic can’t be generalised.
I’m glad things are going better for you! Things are also (hopefully) going a bit better for me too. I’m switching to abilify right now, I have some psychotic symptoms as I taper down but today it’s been pretty good. Can’t really expect no symptoms while switching from olanzapine to a partial dopamine agonist I guess…
I hope it works out. Just do what you can to get good results. Mental hygiene is very important.
Like @shutterbug said, even scrolling on amazon can cause psychosis. That kind of sums up how vulnerable we are, especially when having a pre excisting condition.
Thanks, I hope so too. I have had worse and worse psychotic symptoms for each day since I started the tapering one week ago. I think it may be withdrawals, today it was better, maybe it will start getting better after I have reached steady state on 5mg. I’m triggered by sounds from the street and other apartments. It sucks but I hope it will pass. I think the next tapering down I will do 1/4 or 1/2 of 2.5mg… 2.5mg down was kind of heavy on the brain.
I’m planning on going to 10mg abilify zero zyprexa (if the abilify will work for me). If it doesn’t work out I’ll probably stay on 5mg zyprexa and 10mg abilify as I am now, as I think I feel just a tiny bit more awake on it.
I think the abilify can take some time to work. And maybe also time to heal from zyprexa withdrawals.
Sounds like a good plan. Just have to deal with feelings coming back to life. Anyways that’s what happened the few times I quit zyprexa and was on latuda or seroquel. It’s good to feel, but it takes more effort to deal with I guess.
I will probably try seroquel again at some point, but now the plan is to stay on original zyprexa for 6months and then see where I’m at with sleep. Hopefully it continues to improve.
