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Originally Posted by DeFyYing
I've been on Zyprexa 7.5mg for a few months now and it absolutely wrecked my delusions, paranoia, mania, and social anxiety. Problem is I've started dipping into depression, and my pdoc's not sure if it's a depressive episode or if it's induced from the Zyprexa. Either way, my Lithium's antidepressant properties don't seem to be enough to stop this so she prescribed me Prozac 10mg a month ago and it did nothing (she started low because she was afraid of triggering mania).
She just increased it to 20mg yesterday, which I hear is the normal starting dose. If anyone has tried symbyax or just prozac, how long did it take until you started feeling better? I feel so unmotivated and apathetic, anhedonia has been kicking my *** and I'm just getting impatient
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This is interesting. I do not think depression is a side effect of Olanzapine. Oh well. It took several weeks for me to benefit from Fluoxetine. Unlike some APs that have a relatively immediate effect, as you know, this is not the case with ADs. The combination of Olanzapine and Fluoxetine worked very well for me. The Olanzapine is one of the more powerful APs. I find that it also strengthens the effect of the AD. It is an FDA approved combo for BP. However, eventually my pdoc added in Buproprion which made a difference. The Olanzapine did make me just a little “drugged” which is not good for driving a car. My concern with Olanzapine was ending up prediabetic.