I was trying to answer your other thread but it just got delisted.
I quit my Olanzapine (Under doctor supervision) a little over 9 months ago and haven’t been able to sleep since without sleeping pills
I am now on Lurasidone and that works great for my psychosis, it doesn’t help me sleep, and it gave me akathisia but I keep taking it because it works. Trazodone stops the akathisia so it’s manageable. Clonazepam allows me to sleep.
I’ve been on antipsychotics for 18 years and I will be on antipsychotics for the rest of my life, whenever I have lowered my dose too much or tried something else that didn’t work I became psychotic. So I take my meds willingly. I like them, they allow me to work and function normally.
I don’t think I should drive a car, but I have found a med regime which is minimal enough that I am functional. However, although I feel awake enough to drive, I think that the distractions that I experience mean that cars are out of the picture. I’ll stick to walking from A to B and not being hit by a bus.
I have a valid driver’s license and know how to drive. I should mention though that years ago when I was placed in a psychiatric hold, my driver’s license was suspended and I had to go to a special department of motor vehicles office to be re-evaluated so I could qualify to retake my driver’s test at the regular DMV. The entire process took about 90 days but I am legally able to drive again.
Maybe something similar has happened to other where a person’s driver’s license is suspended.
Hi @Headspark today I had this article in my phone’s news feed. Don’t really want to scare you but I thought of you. Have you seen stuff like this already.
I had a moter scooter, the kind that goes 45 miles an hour. It was so much fun. It was a small town. I live in a big area now with public transportation and moter cycling is too dangerous. I can’t do it anymore anyway and I can’t drive. I’m not even going to try, I’m too crazy and disoriented, and my moter responses are bad, you know like I look right then left to pull out and I can’t remember what I saw.
I’ve never taken a driving test.That’s because I’m well aware that I would be a danger to myself and others if I got behind the wheel of a car.It has nothing to with my being a schizophrenic person.
I haven’t read that exact article but I’ve read similar things. I’ve been on daily clonazepam for about 8 months now for insomnia. My insomnia has improved but it’s not close to gone, If my insomnia goes away I will ween myself of benzos. I’m hoping I’ll only have to be on them another year. I don’t want to be on them but it’s the only thing that allows me to sleep.
I was on clonazepam for about a year several years ago for headaches and became dependent on it, and I successfully weened myself off that. I’ll just have to do it again. I’m definitely dependent on it again.
So far I don’t feel like my cognition has been affected, but I know it’s a definite possibility.
Good to read it was reversible after discontinuation…
When diazepam treatment was discontinued, the effect persisted for some time, but was ultimately reversible.