[TigerLight]

So last month my dr. Switched me to Celexa 10 mg, Olazapine 20mg, & Vistal for anxiety 25mg. I got a new counselor this week and we went over all my meds & I have since started taking them. She strongly believes I have social anxiety as well.It’s just hard taking my mental health drugs along with other meds.
I’m really hoping this med combo works.
So far even though its only been since weds. I feel a bit calmer...& have been sleeping better. I just hope my teeth dont start hurting again. Is it normal to feel so sleepy when 1st taking the anti depressant & anti-psychoatic? I take them both at night.

[still_crazy]

hi. that's a sedating combination. not that im 2nd guessing your shrink, its just...wow.

if you need a tranquilizer/antipsychotic, there are less sedating options. i take abilify, which is now generic. its odd...take it before 10 AM or it might keep you up at night.

maybe you'll adjust to the olanzapine? its kind of a high dose. maybe they'll lower it a bit, once you've stabilized?

try not to let them pile on drugs and diagnoses. happened to me...took years to recover from "Treatment." if possible, try to keep the psych drugs to a minimum. 3 psych drugs is fairly normal these days. beats the old school method of giving people massive doses of Haldol. anyway...

olanzapine and celexa can help agitation, anxiety. the 10mgs celexa is lower than what many start with, which is a good thing if you're prone to agitation and anxiety.

hope this helps. :-)

[TigerLight]

Originally Posted by still_crazy

hi. that's a sedating combination. not that im 2nd guessing your shrink, its just...wow.

if you need a tranquilizer/antipsychotic, there are less sedating options. i take abilify, which is now generic. its odd...take it before 10 AM or it might keep you up at night.

maybe you'll adjust to the olanzapine? its kind of a high dose. maybe they'll lower it a bit, once you've stabilized?

try not to let them pile on drugs and diagnoses. happened to me...took years to recover from "Treatment." if possible, try to keep the psych drugs to a minimum. 3 psych drugs is fairly normal these days. beats the old school method of giving people massive doses of Haldol. anyway...

olanzapine and celexa can help agitation, anxiety. the 10mgs celexa is lower than what many start with, which is a good thing if you're prone to agitation and anxiety.

hope this helps. :-)

Thanks so much for your advice. Sometimes it does feel as if they are just piling on diagnoses just give you more pills and make you feel more insane than you actually are. The Vistaril helps alot with my anxiety. The antidepressant and antpsych make me a bit tires.

[*Laurie*]

Yes, it's normal to feel quite sleepy from those three medications.

[TigerLight]

Med. Update: the anti depressant is making my teeth hurt really bad & the zyprexa is bringing my blood pressure down to not normal range. 70/45

[still_crazy]

hi. 20mgs/zyprexa is I think about as high as they usually go, outpatient (in hospitals...whoa. they'll go way higher...).

is getting a new doctor an option? I'm not criticizing your doctor, but...personally...I've always found it easier to get a new to me doctor to make changes than to get a current shrink to really listen. kinda strange, I guess. maybe not...

thing is, antidepressants usually boost blood levels of antipsychotic drugs. so...the 20mgs/zyprexa is pretty much the typical outpatient max, anyway, and then you have celexa boosting it a bit further. celexa is one of the easier to tolerate drugs for depression, but...

its a bit sedating, too. i had one shrink who put me on celexa, he referred to it as a "tranquilizing medication."

but i dunno. its not always easy to get a new psychiatrist. there are plenty of other tranquilizers out there...old and new...

i take abilify myself. im not gung ho about any tranquilizers, but i can tolerate it OK and its not too sedating. other people do well on risperidone, geodon, even older ones, like perphenazine, loxapine, navane.

zyprexa is actually notorious for causing weight gain and metabolic problems (diabetes II, for instance). i knew a dude on long term, high dose zyprexa who ended up in the hospital because he had developed diabetes and didn't know it, and then he almost died. its kind odd to me that so many psychiatrists are still starting people on it without informed consent and monitoring.

the older ones--loxapine, perphenazine, navane, even Haldol--can get the job done w/ less weight gain than the newer ones, but there's more twitches and sometimes they can cause depression or make depression worse.

sorry about this. :-(

[vishva8kumara]

I hope you will soon find a combo that works best for you. Some doctors treat each end of the problems while few good doctors treat the source of all problems. Hope you will find a good PDoc too.

[mugwort2]

Originally Posted by TigerLight

Thanks so much for your advice. Sometimes it does feel as if they are just piling on diagnoses just give you more pills and make you feel more insane than you actually are. The Vistaril helps alot with my anxiety. The antidepressant and antpsych make me a bit tires.

Is it possible for you to get a 2nd opinion if you really are these diagnosises and if you need that many different pills. What do you think. Your opinion is most important I would at least talk long and hard with your pdoc and see what their reasoning is. What is the point of seeing a pdoc if there's serious doubts.IMO.

[TigerLight]

Originally Posted by still_crazy

hi. 20mgs/zyprexa is I think about as high as they usually go, outpatient (in hospitals...whoa. they'll go way higher...).

is getting a new doctor an option? I'm not criticizing your doctor, but...personally...I've always found it easier to get a new to me doctor to make changes than to get a current shrink to really listen. kinda strange, I guess. maybe not...

thing is, antidepressants usually boost blood levels of antipsychotic drugs. so...the 20mgs/zyprexa is pretty much the typical outpatient max, anyway, and then you have celexa boosting it a bit further. celexa is one of the easier to tolerate drugs for depression, but...

its a bit sedating, too. i had one shrink who put me on celexa, he referred to it as a "tranquilizing medication."

but i dunno. its not always easy to get a new psychiatrist. there are plenty of other tranquilizers out there...old and new...

i take abilify myself. im not gung ho about any tranquilizers, but i can tolerate it OK and its not too sedating. other people do well on risperidone, geodon, even older ones, like perphenazine, loxapine, navane.

zyprexa is actually notorious for causing weight gain and metabolic problems (diabetes II, for instance). i knew a dude on long term, high dose zyprexa who ended up in the hospital because he had developed diabetes and didn't know it, and then he almost died. its kind odd to me that so many psychiatrists are still starting people on it without informed consent and monitoring.

the older ones--loxapine, perphenazine, navane, even Haldol--can get the job done w/ less weight gain than the newer ones, but there's more twitches and sometimes they can cause depression or make depression worse.

sorry about this. :-(

This dr is a fairly new dr as it for me, so I think im going to stick with this out patient program since i get counseling as well.

[TigerLight]

Originally Posted by mugwort2

Is it possible for you to get a 2nd opinion if you really are these diagnosises and if you need that many different pills. What do you think. Your opinion is most important I would at least talk long and hard with your pdoc and see what their reasoning is. What is the point of seeing a pdoc if there's serious doubts.IMO.

I do have all the diagnosis's in my siginature. All psych I have been too say the same thing, i dont doubt my doctor....its the meds that keep not working and doing more harm than good.