Posted by ronaldo on December 17, 2006, at 11:40:08 [reposted on December 23, 2006, at 11:47:38 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Zyprexa w/d - progress - comments and advice....., posted by blueberry1 on December 17, 2006, at 11:09:41
Hello blueberry
Sorry to hear the Zyp is giving you such a hard time. Take each day as it comes, each day is a day closer to Zyp freedom. Zyp w/d gives me bad insomnia which tends to make me manic. I have never used 1.25mg before. Last time I went from 2.5mg straight to zero. I will try 1.25mg this time. How do you measure your 1.25? Do you simply cut a 2.5 pill in half with a pill cutter or do you cut it freehand with a razor blade? My pill cutter works best on the larger pills, it does not seem to cut the smaller ones accurately. I think I will have to get some more 2.5mg tablets. I hope the amisulpride is good to you. Only another 10 days and the Zyp should start to let up. Good Luck!
BTW what do you think of 50mg or 100mg of Trazodone for sleep? I have some spare which I might use up. If it works I might get some more.
.......ronaldo
> I'm having a much harder time weaning off zyprexa than I ever could have imagined. Insomnia isn't my problem. It's just that with each step down I go through about a 2 week period of increased depression until I stabilize. Anxiety increases. I withdraw from the world. I walk around dizzy, in a fog. I feel like I have a mild case of the flu. I have a vague sense of free-floating fear. I get aches and pains and leg cramps. It takes me about a month at a new dose for these things to tame down, but they never completely go away.
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> Anyway, I was on 5mg for about 10 years. Then 2.5mg for several months. Now I've been at 1.25mg for about 3 weeks. Going from 5mg to 2.5mg was a little rough. But going from 2.5mg to 1.25 has been real rough. I actually can't even imagine getting off zyprexa. Seems impossible. I'm glad other people don't have this much trouble. More than going from 1.25mg to 0 I've actually been pondering going back to 2.5mg. But I'm going to force myself to wait until I get my amisulpride and then feel it out.
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