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Mental Health Coming off olanzapine hell. Help!!

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Reine1982

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Ok I have bpd, harm OCD and depression. My current meds are 300mg quetiapine and 45mg mirtazapine. I was taking 20mg olanzapine but has been swopped over to quetiapine. Basically I started reducing olanzapine by 5mg at a time in oct and started to introduce the quetiapine. Anyways 10 days I stopped the olanzapine from 5mg to nothing on the advice of my psychiatrist. I now feel ill. I'm constantly wanting to be sick. I'm itching like mad and anxiety is so high I don't feel safe. My psychiatrist also stopped my diazepam at the same time as she said I was getting dependant on it. I only took 4mg twice a week when I needed it. I rang my mental health team on fri and nobody rang me back. I rang crisis team on Saturday and they said somebody would visit me yesterday.....nothing!!! I am disgusted how they have left me struggling plus I have had a close bereavement in the last two weeks. I have been on olanzapine for roughly five yrs now. I feel like I shouldn't have been dropped from 5mg to nothing even tho I am on the quetiapine. Any advice would be really appreciated xx
 
You could go to the hospital but it may be financially costly. But in your post you said you don't feel safe.
 
It's probably WDs from diazepam and olanzapine. When you see your psychiatrist, ask for a quietiapine dose increase, or ask her to give you a TCA. That should stop the itching, and calm you down.
Why did you switch drugs?
 
If you're in any immediate danger you need to get to the hospital. It does sound like you're going through diazepam/olanzapine withdrawal. Yeah, why switch if it appeared to work?
 
The olanzapine wasn't really working I was in and out of hospital and under the crisis team a lot. My psychiatrist said she doesn't want my quetiapine increasing from 300mg as I don't have schizophrenia but I do have pseudo hallucinations. Not sure if my doc will increase my meds when the hospital deals with it. My social worker came out yesterday and refused to give me any extra support or help from crisis team so I am left on my own to struggle. Sorry I have not replied earlier. Many thanks for ur time in posting x
 
I've personally found zyprexa to be somewhat habit forming. It's certainly stronger than seroquel. Switch back to zyprexa?
 
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