Grusinskaya
Greenlighter
- Joined
- May 10, 2012
- Messages
- 11
My partner was switched to 10mg daily of olanzepine a good few months ago (for symptoms of schizophrenia but his diagnosis was reviewed by the psychiatrist and drug-induced psychosis raised as possibility) . It has done nothing positive for him apart from helping with sleep, making a lot of his symptoms such as hearing voices, paranoia etc worse.... He hasn't taken anything in the way of stimulants since start of April saving a short period of trying modafinil which concluded in him sticking firmly to tea and coffee. I don't like what this drug has done to him... He is also taking amisulpride with procyclidine to help (somewhat) the akathisia, a combination he took for many years with few problems. He decided to stop the olanzepine the other day (I tried to reason that he should taper after researching a little but he's a stubborn bugger) and as he sees his psychiatrist Tuesday I am keeping very close eye til then. By many accounts olanzepine seems pretty nasty, other people's experience of it would be welcome...