Reducing Olanzapine dose to 5 mg

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I’m currently on 10 mg a night. Thinking of lowering it to 5 mg a night to see if it helps with losing weight.

I know none of you guys are doctors… but whats your opinion of lowering my dose?

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I am not sure if it still is effective at 5. I manage my weight at 15, it takes really a lifestyle change for me, but once in the habit it got easier.

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I used to be on 7.5mg and tried reducing it on my own so that i might lose some weight. The result was that after a year i became mentally unwell and had to take an even higher dose 10mg to become stable again. Whats ironic, is i didnt even lose any weight.

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i was on 15 mg olanzapine, then switched to 9 mg paliperidone, now on 6 mg paliperidone. reducing dose definitely helps, im losing weight slowly but steadily as i still enjoy pizza

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I love me some pizza man lol. Pineapple and beef on it.

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Good luck, hope it works.

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Thanks Aziz. Going to lower it tonight. I will let you guys know if I start getting paranoid or if I can’t sleep.

I hope my appetite gets under control.

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I hope my libido increases too. Maybe lowering my dose will motivate me to find a girlfriend.

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Had a crappy 6 hour sleep. Kept waking up.

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Lowering doses is really hard.

It didn’t work out for me when I tried.

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What happened?
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I lowered my dose for side effects reasonings

Was a big mistake

Took quite a while to get settled again

Still not quite right but a bit better

Just as long as you know the risks of lowering may mean you will take time to get back should it be too low for you

But you have to try to find out

The doctors here always go on and on about it being ‘trial and error’ - so I see little difference between that comment and experimenting with doses

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A couple of years ago I tried reducing my Invega from 12 to 9 mg and after a couple of months I was talking to voices 24/7. This lasted for several months. I forgot how many in total. Maybe close to a year.

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I used to be on 5mg, but had to go up to 7.5mg for sleeps sake.

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Yeah I had a sh-itty sleep last night on 5 mg. I hope it’s not an every night thing. I did fall asleep on the couch though. Maybe if I slept on my bed it would of been a better sleep.

Hoping my appetite is more under control on 5 mg.

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I don’t know if 5mg is a therapeutic dose but hopefully it will be good for you. To be honest, I tried lowering my olanzapine and I didn’t have trouble with sleep, but my sz symptoms came back. It took a long while to feel better again. The sad part is that I didn’t even lose weight or reap any benefits from lowering my dose. Good luck to you though @TheCanuk

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It’s hard to have any opinion about your meds cause you’re the only one who know yourself well enough to know what will happen. I just want to say that I’m somewhat concerned about you cause lowering your medication with 50 % is very much.
At last but not least I wish you the best of luck with your recovery.

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