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Jan 19, 2015, 06:31 AM
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Hello all !
I have been taking Olanzapine 5mg for the past ten years and while it has stopped my mania psychosis etc in its tracks I am left being very physicaly slowed down and lacking in motivation but comfortably numb. This is quite a nice place to be as I have little stress and pressure of any kind in my life. I have not seen a pdoc/Pstchiatrist in the last ten years and have been contented with my symptoms as I feel things could be a lot worse. I am now tempted to try Flouxatine to try and give me a little more get up and go !. I feel that I am lucky that I am not on a cocktail of meds and I rarely have a mood swing which usually come on after having had alcohol. I am just in this comfortable bubble but sometimes feel that it is a bit of a waste of my life. this is getting monotonous. any thoughts please Fingers1 Last edited by fingers1; Jan 19, 2015 at 07:14 AM. |
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Jan 19, 2015, 06:51 AM
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Since you have been on Olanzapine for long I wouldn't recommend stopping it suddenly. Could you talk to your doctor, or go and see a psychiatrist again and discuss this? I take the same dose but it doesn't have the same effect on me.I still feel alert but no longer irritable, agitated and my thoughts slow down and paranoia/delusions ease. Sometimes I am on up to 30mg a day. It just depends on how bad the sypmtoms are.
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Jan 19, 2015, 12:14 PM
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I'm numb on 7.5 mg. I'm going to ask to go down to 5 tomorrow and to change my fluxaten to welbutrin.
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Jan 19, 2015, 02:30 PM
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Miguelsmom did wellbutrin ever cause you increased anxiety when u took it in the past. Im prone to massive anxiety which is why ive stayed away from wellbutrin
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Jan 19, 2015, 08:50 PM
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The welbutrin helped my husbands OCD. It actually made me less anxious.
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