Posted by Zyprexa on January 31, 2012, at 7:44:57
In reply to Can zyprexa + lithium cocktail stop working?, posted by stewie on January 28, 2012, at 23:06:27
Zyprexa never poops out. Unless you take anouther antipsychotic for a while. Abilify in particular. But being off the abilify and back on zyprexa it starts to work again. I've been taking zyprexa since 98. Stayed around the same dose of 10mg the whole time. Some times less and sometimes more, 5-15mg seems to be the effective range for me. Except when coming off abilify, I did that 3 times and each time it took a while for it to start working again. The good thing about zyprexa is if you stop it and start it again it works right away and just as well. My guess is he went off the zyprexa. I've never taken lithium. Every time I go off it(zyprexa) I go back to the state I was in before the zyprexa. I used to take 4 month holidays from it in the begining and go back on it and pop right back into it. I did that for the first 2 years on it once a year. I have not been totaly off it since, except for a few days. And I have not been in a total state except for the time I took abilify, which totaled me for a while. I also have schitzo affective. I've tried a lot of other APs and none worked as well as zyprexa, if at all. I can't live with out it. You can inject zyprexa. That would be one way to know if hes taking it.
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