Posted by Sebastian on January 1, 2007, at 19:30:13
In reply to Taking a poll - have you failed to quit Zyprexa?, posted by kotsunega on January 1, 2007, at 0:44:26
I've taken zyprexa for almost 10 years. i don't know how many times I tried to quit. I started with a dose of 10mg and stoped after 9 months for about 4 months. During that time I could not eat, sleep. I also went psychotic, ie, could not leave the house. So I went back on it for anouther 9 months, quit for anouther 4 months, same thing. That was the last time I quit for a while, about 4 years. The next time I tried to quit it was very difficult. I started by cutting the dose in half, I felt like I was going crazy for a few days, then it got easyer, but wished I had cut down slower. For the next month I felt fine but different, sort of less happy. Then I made a mistake and stoped taking the medicine all together. Days one and two were ok, then it was awfull, I could not eat, got very paranoid and started avoiding people, eating lunch and studying in my car and feeling like I was going to do something stupid like run and scream. Also did other stupid things like bust up laughing for no reason in class, every one just looked and avoided. Thoughts would race, I got extreamly woried about poeple for no reason, calling and calling and saying stupid stuff that made no sense. By the end of the week I was falling apart and littery finding it harder and harder to eat, literaly I could not get food down my throat. My parents told me to call the doctor, he instructed that I take 1.25mg zyprexa, within 15 min I could eat, and I started feeling calm again, something that didn't happen all week. Slowly I pleaded with my doc to get the medicine back up to the full dose again. I stayed there for anouther 9 months and decided I wanted off the medicine, it was making me tired, fat, and i felt like I was in hell. Decreased the dose to 5mg and felt great for a while, then I was feeling tired, worn out and wanted the med again at full dose, but my doctor would not let me. I went a little crazy over the next 2 years, finding that I would worry alot and imagine things. Tried some other anti-psychotics, but none of them could take the place or fill the void of zyprexa. They all made me feel worse and I was not feeling happy at all. Only zyprexa has this amazing calming, refreshing, happy feel to it. All the other AP did not work except zp. I asociate zyprexa with saine, not zyprexa insane. Eventualy I went back on the full dose again but it was not the same and I would not feel good at higher doses anymore but I was insane at lower doses. Is it my imagination. I realy liked the effects of zyprexa the first pill I took, it made me feel realy good and I wanted to take it, when I saw the price of it i realy wanted to take it. So for the last 2 years or so I've been on many different doses I'm starting to think changing the dose and taking it as needed is best. Currently I take 5mg again with abilify, so far I have not gone crazy, but its only been 3 weeks and I don't think I can get all the way off the zyprexa, because you feel fine for a while and then desperatly want it back again.
poster:Sebastian
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