So I am now sure its the Zyprexa. 3 hours after it take, it put my energy in my feet, if you can understand this… I am so low in energy then that I feel heavy and in emotional pain and can hardly do some activity… Its very powerful, I assure you 
. The problem is that in the day, its onle the Zyprexa, who helps me… Am I condemned to always feel this killed energy in the evening? I am stuck, people… Theres no other med for me. Some of them make me crazier, some of the other have even more bad side effects…
Somebody else who has his energy killed by his ap? Is the only solution is to take it right before sleep?
I am afraid that my ap maintains me in a zombie state… I still take it cause I want to see if ill feel better on it one day, but in the evening it makes me quite dumb with very low energy. I cant even get up from the bed… I am afraid it wont go away, no… is the solution to take it right before sleep, please? Somebody else who gets ‘‘low’’ on his ap but continues taking it?
I stopped taking my ap, I don’t suggest you do that. I feel energy, but my mind is so deformed that I can’t really use it for anything productive. I also have an inability to start and persist in things, it limits my productivity.
The issues for me aren’t all the medicine, though that can cause some issues. The illness itself was forcing people to live their lives out in asylums long before there were antipsychotics. Question anyone who tries to tell you the meds are the only contributor to your issues.
No, I assure you. The Zyprexa keeps me on my feet and I eat at least on it, but I assure you that in the evening it kills me literally… It drains my energy, I am sure of this. I am sure that I am not the only one. I guess I have some normal aspect still in me and the Zyprexa acts for some hours like it would acted on a normie, you see… I didn’t have the low energy without this ap, I am sure its the med…
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On Zyprexa I had severe attacks of psychosis almost every evening 2 hours before my next dose. Barring my psychotic break it was the most difficult thing I’ve ever had to deal with in life. I had such bad intrusive thoughts, those that involved harming others and myself.
Zyprexa never flattened me though, or made me feel demoralized. I had very bad anhedonia on it, as well as many other issues. It made me depressed too, but that was constant and didn’t get worse at any particular time. Life was very hard on Zyprexa.
I hope you can find a solution @Anna1.
Are you still taking lithium.
No, I am not on lithium anymore… It made me fragile in a way, it made me anxious, I am strange with some meds. We are different gorrister, maybe I have mostly borderline disorder even though that I have paranoia too. Zyprexa is good for me in the day, but it steals something like 5 hours from my life after it take in the evening… It drains so much my energy that I cant get up from the bed. and of course, it makes me anhedonic and demoralized too. But the other aps were even worse on me and I need an ap now I find… I tried once to stop all the aps and I stopped eating and I took personnaly what was said on the tv. I was paranoid even from the people on the tv, it was a sharp state…
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Zyprexa didn’t do anything for me and it made me extremely ill, it wreaked havoc with my blood sugar and gave me metalbolic syndrome, I can never take it again! I was a non-responder to all antipsychotics so I started taking clozapine and that helped me considerably with less side effects, that is the way it usually is, you might want to try that.
Yes. Risperdal and Depakote both make me live off my couch!
I am barely functioning but I guess it beats living in the Hospital.
Please hang in there @Anna1!
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Who here has a bad kind of ‘‘kick’’ from the med? The problem is that in the day, I am ok with this treatment. All the other aps made me crazier. I am stuck with this Zyprexa and the evenings… and for some 4 hours, I am really knocked out by it. I don’t even want to talk and have my strange ‘‘dark’’ ideas because of the med… It definitely puts me down for some hours after it take, I am sure its the med…
Hey, people, please help! Should I accept this ‘‘kick’’ of 4 hours? I am really stuck I find, cause I don’t like at all the other aps…