Did it help hallucinations? Do you sleep well.
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Aren’t you on it?
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Yes! Typical olanzapine story here, gained a lot of weight. Worked on my delusions. I’m glad I don’t have deluded thinking anymore. I just wish I had the motivation to exercise.
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Did you have visual and auditory hallucinations?
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I have auditory hallucinations. I hear voices and nothing has helped with that. I hear them 24/7. But as I said I’m not deluded anymore thanks to olanzapine.
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Helped for hallucinations, no weight gain. Negative sides: Flat emotions, have a hard time gaining muscle, mild fatigue, some body aches.
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So it don’t help voices huh
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Are you sure it’s the olanzapine and not poor diet our something else?
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It has taken well care of positive symptoms when I’ve been ill, but the side effects are pretty heavy. I got my weight under control with effort, but it kills motivation and libido, gives brain fog, sleep disturbances, solomnes
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Nope! Nothing helped with the voices. But my voices are due to trauma from bullying.
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I easily gained muscle before meds, and when I tried doing strength training now even waiting many many days to recover, I find myself getting weaker the next work out. I know it sounds weird, but it seems to be the case. Apparently others don’t have this on olanzapine, god knows what it is.
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She said something about putting me on it because it more sedating
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How old are you?
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early 30s. My diet is ok too, I think.
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Yeah, it’s pretty sedating. Most sedating of the 4 AP’s I have tried.
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My invega is causing insomnia and nightmares badly.
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Ok. Weird then? You are not old. I wish I could come off olanzapine. It’s a good drug for psychosis, too bad it ruins everything else.
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As long as I can sleep on it and it keeps voices away.
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Hopefully olanzapine will help you sleep, and also take care of symptoms.
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I just started olanzapine a week ago and am titrating off clozapine, but I feel more social anxiety it seems. I am also having more food cravings. I have not had a worsening of positive symptoms, tho, so that’s good.
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