I’m stable symptomwise on 5mg olanzapine, but the meds aren’t working well on sleep anymore, and it appears to be getting worse with time. I might lose my job over the insomnia.
I tried taking 10mg just for sleep, but then I get restless legs that keep me awake.
The psych team wants me to take nozinan, but I have read bad reviews about it here. Like it feels like getting hit by a bus when you wake up in the morning or that it’s a bad copy of clozapine.
I tried transitioning to quetiapine, but it did not work on sleep.
I guess my strategy now will be to try the original medications instead of generics. I will ask for the original seroquel. If that fails I will ask for the original zyprexa. That’s the best plan I can come up with.
I will ask my doctor if a psychiatrist can help me with a sleep med, but they have turned me down every time I ask. I was thinking maybe gabapentin, but I have to get in touch with a pdoc for that, my gp is really good, but isn’t expert on interactions.
The last time I got letter correspondence from the psych team they said to take nozinan. But I refuse. I have been on meds for 16years and have not got facetime with a pdoc even once.
Mr Hope I don’t to give you any kind of advice but I’ve had friends who had to get a little raise in meds. after having tried other meds or lower dose of their main meds. 7.5 mg Zyprexa is a very low dose.
I had to get free from my meds Geodon after 20 years of usage because that it had caused quite severe insomnia the last decade I took it.
That came not without so I had to get a raise in the other antipsychotics I used.
I don’t remember the name of it, but they put me on a drug that was a combination of a sedative and a tricyclic anti-depressant. It kept me on a regular schedule of about 8 - 9 hours of sleep a night, which for me is a miracle. It eventually quit working, though.
I’m happy with most of my meds. When I was first sick, they prescribed me modern day antipsychotics. I’m on perphenazine effexor benztropine and metoprolol. I think it’s time for them to help and if they don’t find another pdoc. Hugs
Yes. I think the doc is willing to let me stay on a low dose of quetiapine if it can help me with sleep since I have not had positive symptoms in a long time. The benefit of possible sleep outweighs the risk of a relapse.