Posted by floatingbridge on August 11, 2011, at 22:30:49
In reply to Zyprexa update - I'm so confused/scared, posted by jerseygal1 on August 11, 2011, at 17:08:50
> Those of you who have been following my posts know that I was reluctant to start taking zyprexa. I finally did and I'm so confused/scared about where to go with it. I started with 2.5 then up to 5 mg which did nothing. My pdoc then had me increase to 7.5 mg which made me feel very flat, unemotional, and I think more depressed. I tried this for 5 days then went back to 5 mg. on my own. He wants me to increase to 10 mg. but I haven't yet as I'm afraid that it will make me feel even worse. My pdoc insists that zyprexa does not make you feel depressed. Did others have similar
experiences as they went up on dose? I don't want to miss out on the chance that the 10 mg. could be the magic bullet yet I don't want to sink into a deeper hole. My diagnosis is depression/anxiety and it's being used as an augmentation to pristiq. Has anyone ever heard of such a high dose as a
augmentation?JG, Abilify and Zyprexa might be like apples and oranges, but here's my experience with Abilify and pristiq. 2.5 didn't *work*, so then 5. I felt worse, but being depressed so long and whatever, I didn't know. So we go to 10. Then I knew pretty quickly it was a no-go. However, all complaints, including an inner agitation remitted quickly/imeadiately upon dose reduction. After that pristiq was pushed to 100mg which was also pretty quickly apparent a no-go. It was not like the
umpteen weeks spent waiting for the 50mg pristiq to kick in.I do not believe pristiq has shown great efficacy for most users at 100mg, but there must be some, and for those, then it works, and that is what matters.
So, my comfort to you is that, in my experience the dosage increases were fast in telling the efficacy and in their remittance, and I regained a baseline stability pretty quickly.
Someone else said this above, but the bottom line is how you feel, not what the doctor says, because we are all unique in our responses and if someone is the first outside a doctor's experience, so be it.
You can also be the first responder to a treatment that your doctor does not anticipate.
Hang in there, JG. I realize the stakes are high, here. If you can, try to avoid alarming yourself with worst case scenarios. I think you will navigate this transition and come out alright.
Have you googled the archives on zyprexa augmentation?
Continuing best wishes.
I dig a pony.
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