It seems that aripiprazole was too weak for me and I almost had a collapse in December.
I’m now taking olanzapine (5 mg) and aripiprazole (20 mg). The good thing is that I have no dellusions. The bad thing is that I’m putting on weight (damn olanzapine!). I hope in the future I take only 20mg of aripiprazole.
I just have tried olanzapine and aripiprazole. My pdoc just put me on olanzapine again because I wasn’t sleeping very well and I was starting to have dellusions :~/. I want to be just on aripiprazole again. If it doesn’t work, I’ll try other meds (maybe Saphris or Latuda).
Olanzapine is one of the ones most notorious for weight gain just so ya know. Latuda didn’t work for me either…in fact my therapist said it seemed to make me crazier @.@ I think because the akesthesia was so bad. I don’t know anything about Saphris though. Good luck with whatever you choose!