Saw my pdoc yesterday. She said I could taper down the Zyprexa, to 5 mg for 3 days and then stop it.
But I only took the 5 mg last night and couldn't sleep. 5 hours after taking my night meds, I finally took an extra half of klonopin. I think about 45 mins later, I finally fell asleep.
I'm going to email my pdoc and ask her for the low dose of Seroquel for sleep she had offered before and I had rejected. As I've said here before, I HAVE to sleep well, otherwise I go doolally.
I don't want a possible option of increasing the Zyprexa again; I've been ravenous, and had already been gaining weight from all the comfort-eating I had been doing for some time now.
I just hope there won't be a hangover from the Seroquel. I've only taken much higher doses of it and it made me so so fatigued. I'm hoping a low dose will be different?
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Bipolar 1
Lamictal: 400 mg
Latuda: 60mg
Klonopin: 1 mg
Propranolol: 10 mg
Zoloft: 100 mg
Temazepam: 15 mg
Zyprexa 5-10mg prn
(for Central Pain Syndrome: methadone 20 mg; for chronic back pain: meloxicam 15 mg; for migraines: prochlorperazine prn)
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