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Aripiprazole questions

privatecaller

privatecaller

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my new team of counsellers and psychiatrist are considering starting me on what i gather is this fairly new drug and ive been on olanzipine for about 10 months. but it jus makes me sooooo tired. does anyone have any experience with it? one of you must have. is it the right move? whats it going to be like, they say i wont be so tired cos i at the moment im sleeping like 14 hours a day which is obviously a waste and i have to have a nap during the day too plus caffeine to keep my energy up.
 
privatecaller said:
my new team of counsellers and psychiatrist are considering starting me on what i gather is this fairly new drug and ive been on olanzipine for about 10 months. but it jus makes me sooooo tired. does anyone have any experience with it? one of you must have. is it the right move? whats it going to be like, they say i wont be so tired cos i at the moment im sleeping like 14 hours a day which is obviously a waste and i have to have a nap during the day too plus caffeine to keep my energy up.
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I got tardive dyskinesia with Aripiprazole in only 1 week, while it took 2 months to get dyskinesia on Amisulpride, and never got dyskinesia with Olanzapine.
For this reason, I find Olanzapine better.
 
Simple answer is: try it and you will see. The doctors don't know how antipsychotics work. They can't predict how would it work in your case. It is the method of trial and error. I know many people who take ziprasidone (Zeldox) and are quite happy with it. When I was given ziprasidone I had to discontinue its use after two days and the next 14 days I suffered from an unspeakable hell-mentally agonizinig akathisia of the worst kind and it was not cured lege artis in my case an I am considering to sue them. And I know people who had malignant neuroleptic syndrome after common risperidone. So take care and when you get bad don't listen to doctors that these are only temporrary minor side effects and simply refuse to take the drug sooner than you will be so sick that you would loose control over yourself. I speak only from my experience so please don't take it as a definitive universal truth.
 
I have in the past been on olanzapine for a year or two. It initially caused tachycardia, which faded after about two months. I had extreme weight gain (60 lbs), some muscle tremors, and similar somnolence to what you are talking about. I had discussed trading olanzapine for aripiprazole before I just said fuck it all and went off all my meds. This isn't usually a good idea, but considering I've been off all antipsychotics and antimania drugs for over 3 years and have been fine, the initial gut feeling that I had been misdiagnosed and proxied by my mother seems to be the case.
 
^Hey, it got me into pharmacology! (But yeah, you're right). This is also what's behind my deep distrust of behavioral pharmacology.
 
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