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Mental Health olanzapine does it help depression

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Does olanzapine help depression, no anti psychotics have ever fully helped quetiapine did but soon as it wore off id be paranoid as owt.
Im currently taking 5mg olanzapine this was equvialent to 150mg seroquel I was taking between 75-100mg.

I've been feeling really depressed mainly cos my illness has got worse fibromyalgia and I have asked for duloxetine but doctor said no ask your psychiatrist, i asked him he said go ask your doctor ffs.
I asked for this as it helps fibromyalgia aswell as being an anti depressant.

Or shall I ask for a dose increase on the olanzapine, I don't wanna feel brain dead off them though or zombified sick of this anxiety especially since I binged opiates over christmas and now been taking my dose usually is causing depression.
 
I found olanzapine to be only helpful in depression when used with an antidepressant. Mind though I was on 15mg with 45mg mirtazapine. I found this to help the depression but left me only wanting to eat 24/7. So yes it can help with depression, mind though it can leave you zombified at larger doses.
 
I'm actually taking this as well, the last 3 weeks -- first 2 weeks daily, then I "cut back" to about every 2nd day, because as OP mentioned there can be a rebound effect of extra anxiety/psychosis so I want to limit my intake to minimize any future rebound.

Phew. anyway. It really does help. Probably first med [besides opioids, technically] that helped me with anxiety. I should say first non-euphoric drug that's ever helped me.

However there are side effects: sluggishness and a return of my "mild psychosis" [basically just mildly trippy anxiety and social anxiety and paranoia] if I stop; and YES uncontrollable hunger if I'm still awake 2 hours after taking it.

But I swear i've never felt so calm and normal in all my life. Thank God for drugs.

** Edit: almost forgot to mention WHY I'm prescribed it. Anxiety and mild psychosis created from drugs. Also mild depression and mild PTSD
 
My neurologist prescribed this for me for pain for crippling migraines. 10mg. I did find it helped with anxiety, but mostly because I was a zombie and incapacitated. I eventually weened back to 5mg and then 2.5mg, over about a 2 yrs span. Going off it was hellish. I felt like I had the flu for a month, panic attacks, cold sweats, full on detox, and then I was fine. I will never take that drug again.

OP, yes you want Duloxetine and Nabilone, if you can get it!
 
Yes my uncle stopped 20mg cold turkey, it sent him mental, he was hallucinating having delusions shoplifting stupid things, he eventually got sectioned and put on in,jection
Ill leave my dose at 5mg as it does help, going to ask for anti depressant to add on to it.
 
Low doses of almost all of the atypicals are used as an adjunct to ADs. In fact, you can get olanzapine + fluoxetine in one pill (Symbyax).

They are not generally prescribed first line or alone, however. Not saying they couldnt help as monotherapy but considering the metabolic side effects of most atypicals (with olanzapine probably being the worst), its good doses are kept low and used only when ADs arent cutting it alone.

Have you considered aripiprazole? FWIW, I feel its equally, if not more, effective, and has less weight gain and blood sugar and lipid issues than most.
 
At the right dose (usually relatively low), an antipsychotic can definitely help; for me, they're much like an "off switch" at night, shutting off my intrusive thoughts and making me feel like nothing matters, which helps me drift off to sleep. They tend to get a bad rap however because they're often very badly dosed, with way too many clueless doctors prescribing them at doses that are far too high and which lead to all kinds of nasty side effects.

In my experience, when dosed correctly, you should not be feeling ravenous hunger, feeling zombified/hungover during the day, and certainly shouldn't develop diabetes.

Also, though IME less so than with antidepressants, it can take a few attempts before you find the drug that suits you best. My main advice would be to try to find a competent doctor, and one that actually has proper experience in prescribing these drugs.
 
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I'm sorry, but Zyprexa seems like that crap they'd give you in the hospital just to shut you up so you can't think for yourself and then they won't have to bother with you. I was on a low dose at home and it made me feel like that.

If it does work for some, more power to you. I would rather be able to think.
 
CoastTwoCoast said:
I'm sorry, but Zyprexa seems like that crap they'd give you in the hospital just to shut you up so you can't think for yourself and then they won't have to bother with you. I was on a low dose at home and it made me feel like that.
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I would only vote for what u claimed about a chemical thrash called Olanza. (regardless of the fact that i like chemicals stuffs more than organic ones, I cant wait for any plant to grow)
But Olanza is unfortuantely one of billion meds that only zip patient's lip and put them to sleep. i hate to see how ppl sleep all through days and nights ONLY because they dont wanna face more boring days.
 
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