It is kicking me in da booty!
Has anyone’s sleep cycle recovered? Read a lot of bad press on it.
I never felt so odd. Sleeping only a few hours.
I had insomnia when I quit Olanzapine. I don’t remember for how long. I just remember I would stay up all night until 6am then sleep until the afternoon.
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That’s encouraging to know it eventually recovered for you
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I want to eventually stop taking my olanzapine but i’ not going to lie, the hundreds of horror stories online of peole not being able fall asleep is scary.
I guess on the positive side, i’ve went from 20 mg a night to 5 mg a night (over many months) and im still able to sleep on 5 mg.
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Good thinking with tapering down. I will let you know how it goes with sleep recovery. I was on 5 mg too. I’m sleeping about 4 hours a night right now, but that is with Trazodone, which is not habit forming.
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I’m on a very low dose of Clozaril as my AP
I can sleep but vivid weird dreams since going down to this dose
My pdoc wants to take me off it completely and I really hope I don’t face this problem too 
How long have you discontinued it @anon14580204 ?
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I’m at 3 weeks now. Doc said it will take a month. I hope that’s all it will be 
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I hope for you
It might take a bit longer too
You are off AP entirely?
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I take Vraylar now. It is very agreeable for me.
I quit clozapine after tapering on March 12… initially the insomnia was terrible, plus I had flu-like symptoms and autonomic nervous system symptoms like a low heart rate and cold hands/feet. I was taking Zyprexa as my new AP. Now I take 10 mg Zyprexa each night and am finally sleeping about 7 hours most nights, but if I miss a dose I usually only get 2-3 hours of poor sleep.
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