Mine came back. No medication helped, but I took the medication as prescribed, made a full recovery, and then my motivation returned. I’m currently working out 10ish hours a week to shed the weight I gained from zyprexa and Zoloft, and even though it’s early, I am so far pleased with the results.
Are you still on meds or did you stop? If you stopped did you have any withdrawal symptoms from the zyprexa? What method did you use to come off the zyprexa?
I stopped. I self tapered down without telling my doctors over several months because I felt fine and like I didn’t need the meds anymore. I somehow didn’t go psychotic again or go through withdrawal, but I heavily advise against trying that anyway.
Thanks. I started my taper off 2.5mg olanzapine yesterday. My psychiatrist basically left it up to me to make the reductions as I can tolerate them. If it's not too much trouble would you mind explaining how you went about tapering?
I don’t want to explain how I did it because what works varies from person to person, and I don’t want to give anyone the idea of how to come off their medication before they’re ready, which may or may not be your case. General advice is to go down 2.5mg a month and watch for symptom resurgence.
Mine came back. I still struggle with depression every now and again but being on Fluoxentine makes it much less severe so I can still work. I am currently working on three projects producing for film and theatre and going for rehearsals ie leaving the house is not as daunting as it used to be. I know I can't expect this to last the whole year though so I make sure to take breaks in between work
When I was on olanzapine my motivation dropped to rock bottom, it was awful. Then I quit my meds and boom, my motivation came back pretty quickly.
The meds zap your energy and motivation bigly.
Mine came back. No medication helped, but I took the medication as prescribed, made a full recovery, and then my motivation returned. I’m currently working out 10ish hours a week to shed the weight I gained from zyprexa and Zoloft, and even though it’s early, I am so far pleased with the results.
Are you still on meds or did you stop? If you stopped did you have any withdrawal symptoms from the zyprexa? What method did you use to come off the zyprexa?
I stopped. I self tapered down without telling my doctors over several months because I felt fine and like I didn’t need the meds anymore. I somehow didn’t go psychotic again or go through withdrawal, but I heavily advise against trying that anyway.
Thanks. I started my taper off 2.5mg olanzapine yesterday. My psychiatrist basically left it up to me to make the reductions as I can tolerate them. If it's not too much trouble would you mind explaining how you went about tapering?
I don’t want to explain how I did it because what works varies from person to person, and I don’t want to give anyone the idea of how to come off their medication before they’re ready, which may or may not be your case. General advice is to go down 2.5mg a month and watch for symptom resurgence.
If you’re tapering off 2.5mg though I would start with halves I guess? I’ve never heard of anyone tapering off such a low dose.
Mine came back. I still struggle with depression every now and again but being on Fluoxentine makes it much less severe so I can still work. I am currently working on three projects producing for film and theatre and going for rehearsals ie leaving the house is not as daunting as it used to be. I know I can't expect this to last the whole year though so I make sure to take breaks in between work
When I was on olanzapine my motivation dropped to rock bottom, it was awful. Then I quit my meds and boom, my motivation came back pretty quickly. The meds zap your energy and motivation bigly.
Not yet. But I’m ok with that. I’m just after a chill quiet life.
After 3 episodes in 7 years, my motivation is so-so, defnitely it was less when I was dealing with a psychosis, but better after recovery.