I start to think that the knock out effect in the evenings are from my zyprexa. I was attribuating it before to the illness but now i think its the med. After it take it puts me low energy to the point that i cant get up from the bed. Plus the feeling to feel my brain in my head, i am so low gosh… i still dont have the benefits in the day. But can this change? Can this tiredness lift up with time? Or ill have to take my med right before sleep but this one is complicated cause i sleep in different time 
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Olanzapine made me really tired too, I would never get up in the morning, and it even made me tired in the afternoon as well. Then everyone would say that I was lazy.
Simonw, my tiredness on it is really strange. Its not in my body, but in my head. Its like zyprexa compresses my brain, its hell… but in the day i dont have this. But its not cool - my evening hours are stollen from my life…
Sleep is healthy. My pdoc told me that one of the reasons he put me on clozapine was because it made me sleep a lot, and after a big psychotic break it was healthy for me to just lay in bed and sleep all day to let my brain recover. But I don’t think it’s healthy long term to sleep 20 hours a day like I did on clozapine! That’s not living.
When I get psychotic, I don’t sleep well. When I almost had a break last year, I was put on olanzapine again because, beside making me less psychotic, it makes me sleep very well.
Guys, i talk about this compressing brain effect. It breaks my mood too and i start to think negatively after the take of my med… i wonder if with the time it can wear off? Its worse than a simple tiredness, its painful i suffer. I feel my brain in my head…
Do you mean it feels a bit like having depression?
Its physical idk… imagine a compressed brain simonw. Its like my brain closes in those moments, its getting compressed and i have very low mood then and i start to drag my feet on the floor cause my brain is not “open” or oxygenated in these moments. I feel compression, it puts me down…
Now I know why the ER pdoc gave me 2 mg of Ativan intramuscular injection with Zyprexa after my last psychotic break. He thought sleep would help my brain recover. I slept for 36 hours straight, after that shot.
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