How long does it take you to fall asleep? How long is a normal or acceptable amount of time? 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 1 hour, longer?
I’m asking because I am wondering if I should bring this up to my dr or not (my sleep troubles).
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It should take me about an hour. That’s the way it always was. But I developed restless leg syndrome after taking taurine and now it takes about 3 hours ! 
I stopped taking taurine and my restless leg syndrome is slowly getting better.
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About 30-60min. Sometimes I don’t really sleep though. Insomnia for 9 years.
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@everhopeful oh no! 3 hours is miserable when you have restless leg syndrome. I have had that off and on due to different medications. Not fun! I’m glad it is slowly getting better though!
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@Mr_Hope Oh no! Insomnia for 9 years is awful! I know you are in the middle of a med swap too. I really hope you can find a solution to this issue very soon.
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It takes me about 1-2 hours to fall asleep and it sort of stinks because the olanzapine has worn off by this point so the voices can get nasty. I don’t know why 30 mg of olanzapine doesn’t knock me out in 15-30 minutes anymore. 
It’s better after I got off generic zyprexa and started on original about 7 months ago. At least now life is bearable.
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Oh good to know! I currently take generic olanzapine wafers but long ago I took brand name zyprexa zydis. @Mr_Hope
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Yeah. I started on original in 2007. Then generic became available around 2011-2012. Until 2014 they gave me sometimes generic and sometimes original. But then a little later they gave me generic only. It took me forever to connect the dots that the generic was causing insomnia and also a very bad connection between mind and body, dissensation. They actually sometimes use zyprexa as a pain killer for people who are terminal ill with cancer.
Anyways my health has started slowly improving after I started original zyprexa with better sleep and better sensation. But it still carries side effects like sleep problems and very low libido, restlessness and ocd. This is why I am trying to switch meds.
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@Mr_Hope oh ok! Thanks so much for all of this information that you have shared with me! That’s all very good to know. I wasn’t aware of any of that.
I really understand why you chose to do a med swap now. I hope I won’t have to! Olanzapine works so well for me. I have some trouble falling asleep but once I’m asleep I’m out cold the entire night. Hopefully it will be ok.
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30min after taking my 6mg risperidone at 11pm.
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About 30 minutes or less.
This is after my PM meds
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20min-1h
It depends on how tired I am;
And how many thoughts I have in my head 
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1-3 hours
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About 15 minutes
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It depends on how loudly my wife is snoring. She has sleep apnea that she refuses treatment for. It’s like being next to an industrial wood chipper some nights.
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At least an hour.
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Sometimes 10 minutes but usually like 30
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