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Old Apr 01, 2016, 07:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Icare dixit View Post
I would ask (or not be frightened or anything) for/of an increase in both olanzapine and quetiapine: what you're taking are not therapeutic doses. Considering you take both, I would think 15 mg olanzapine and 300 mg quetiapine for now is really not that high.

I wouldn't take zopiclone and clonazapam at all, but withdrawal/paradoxical symptoms are likely, so maybe start gradually lowering those. Don't just stop taking them, but let the antipsychotics do what zopiclone and clonazapam do now. If quality of sleep is an issue, you might want to take 400 mg quetiapine. In that case, the olanzapine is fine at this relatively low dose.

Great it's going better, but for maybe a few years or longer at the least you really should take rather high doses of antipsychotics. It keeps your brain quite literally from burning up.

No-one will cut open your brain unless an MRI finds something that needs to be removed. That is possible, but don't count on it. Meds are probably gonna be all.
I trid 10mg of olan and it's too much side effect. theneed to eat constantly is putting on weight and it's worse coz I am dealing with AN/BN (eating disorder). so eventually compromised with dr on 7.5mg
Quet doesn't work that well. I have been on 600 mg before but i remained psychotic.
My sleep is havoc if I am off on any ofthese med. Olan made me more restless and more dreams in my sleep, so I kept wakingup.
I am DC now
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Bipolar, BPD, ED
increasing med right now: a downhill slope
Seroquel 200mg
Epilim 300mg
Olanzapine 5mg
Amisulpride 50mg (just started trying this)
Clonazepam 1.5mg
Ativan 1mg (PRN)
Zopiclone (Imovane) 10mg

In psychosis and struggling worse with ED
I skip med because I would rather be psychotic than living in the real sucky world
Who can understand?...

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