Posted by Ezekial18 on February 3, 2006, at 13:42:42
So I started decreasing my zyprexa dose 3 nights ago. I went from 10mg to 7.5mg and the thinking was to keep going down by 2.5 each week until I am off of it. I increased my seroquel to 200mg from 100mg when I started decreasing the zyprexa and may go up to 300mg as I decrease more. The problem with seroquel is that it makes me excessively tired and getting up in the morning is really difficult. Now to the point.... I noticed last night that I was feeling depressed and was having a lot of intrusive thoughts, I was too anxious to fall asleep, was too tired to get up today and when I got to work got really wound up and speedy. This was a lot of different things in less than a 24 hour period. I called my pdoc this morning and she said to go back up to 10mg on zyprexa. I DO NOT want to do this. I feel like chancing it and keep going down but not telling her (when I decide I want to do something, like go off of a med, nothing can stand in my way) but keep taking the seroquel (it ultimately helps me sleep). I am thinking I can take klonopin as a prn the next few weeks to help me cope if this unstable mood thing keeps happenening. She's a great pdoc so I'm sure she will notice if I am unstable (I see her every week), although I have successfully covered things up before. I realize as I am typing this that I am full of sh**, but I just wanted to lay down the story and see what responses I get. Oh yeah, I have been stable for a long time now and just really miss being out of my mind which I think is a big part of this. When I felt myself destabilizing last night I got kind of excited about it.
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