It’s been 1 week since I lowered my Olanzapine dose to 2.5 mg a night. So far so good. But the next step is to completely stop it.
Would tonight be too soon to stop it? Should I take 2.5 mg a night for longer before I try to completely stop it? Or should I give it a go tonight?
What’s your guys opinions?
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way to soon. i took like 2-3 months probably to wean off the last 2 mg of haldol and still it all came back hard. if i quit too fast i last 3 days. if i quit slow it all starts around 6 weeks and is bad by 2-3 months without meds.
my dr once told me it can take like 6 weeks for stuff to come back. so if it were me id stay on the low dose at least 6 weeks and see how i feel. then consider halfing it. and taking that another 6-8 weeks. and then maybe stop it if i still felt good
@irrelevant - Thanks for the reply!
It might be too soon. I’d stick to what your dr planned out for you. I know it’s tempting to stop earlier than they recommend though. @TheCanuk
Very tempting lol. Sick of being fat. Ive read tons of stories online of people losing lots of weight once stopping Olanzapine. It has me optimistic.
Nobody knows only time Will tell.
But I watched a Young lady who went off of Olanzapine on you tube.
And she had with drawal symptoms a Long, Long time after stopping it.
Shiiiiiiitt lol
are u replacing it or r u trying to see if u can go without meds?
Go without meds. I stopped my AD (escitalopram) a bit over a month ago, no serious problems with that. Now its Olanzapines turn to fu-ck off lol.
I plan on occassionally taking Ativan and thats it.
thats what i thought so in that case yeah id wean as slow as posible. i was gonna say that i quit meds much faster if im switching
Canuk Im sorry that I upset.You you dont know how difficult or easy it Will be. It Can take a week but It also Can take month to come.
I hope the best for you and I find it totally understandable that you want off the Zyprexa when it causes so much trouble to you.
Yes I was in your boots while getting of a psychotropics I found really hard getting off of.
No need to say sorry! Thanks for replying.
Theres no rhyme or reason i find. I was on 10mg abilify daily then went to 5mg daily for 4 weeks. Now ive been on nothing for over 4 weeks. Feeling the most normal and least anxious i have in ages. No positive symptoms. I wonder if I’ll start getting weird again at some point soon or just stay normal as long as i keep being healthy and exercising and all that?
Maybe they would have to rethink my diagnosis if i don’t become psychotic again for years to come?
I am kinda shocked at how easy it was for me this time. And how i feel so damn normal haha.
I wish you all the best with your olanzapine journey canuk! And i hope you get to a level of weight/fitness that you are happy with.
I reduced my meds very slowly. I was on reduced meds for over a year. I never quite completely got off them because I always seemed to get squirrelly after reducing below 50% minumum recommended dose.
Anywho, point is it took me over a year and then I went psychotic again in Feb 2023. It took me several months of my life with the assistance of Vraylar to completely work my way back out of it. It was probably my mildest psychosis, but it was still not fun.
Pretty much everybody wants to try it at some point, but most people do not fare well in the long run. I learned my lesson that I am not one that can go without medication until if/when a better alternative comes along/is proven to work.
Good luck. Be aware of your symptoms creeping in is all I can suggest.
Thank you! I appreciate that.
Thanks Bowens.
I want to make one thing clear guys.. I am not 100% totally against meds. They helped me out of a really dark time in my life. They help a lot of people out. Theres a lot of good things these meds do. My goal isnt too scare people away from them.. but when it comes to me personally, I cant stand the side effects. They are not worth the improved mental health.
are you diagnosed sz or sza? sz , right?
Not sza. Sz.
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Bowen. I really understand that you went into a Dark place when you went without meds. When I got off of one of the 3 psychotropics I was on I got into that Dark place as Well for a Long time. So to survive I got bridged with some other psychotropics for some years and now I`m finally out from that Dark place and back to status q.
But what other consider a huge dose of antipsychotics I consider as that dose of meds thats keeping me staying Well.