Recently i have been thinking about coming off my olanzapine as its making me overweight and i now have high cholesterol and pcos. Im being treated for the pcos with desogestrel and metformin and as of today im near enough 99% stable. Im only on 5mg of olanzapine but im sick of being overweight and just want my life back. Im afraid if i come off i will not be able to cope with life and other people so im not sure. Im fully stable now. I have tried to come off about 3 times off different drugs and my last relapse was over 4 years ago.
I want my hair loss to stop and my chin hair to go away. Im so embarrassed and feel like i look like a man.
Since being on metformin and desogestrel im much calmer now then i ever was.
Consulting with your doctor sounds like a good idea. I’m also on zyprexa. I have tried to come off a few times, but not sucseeded. I get very rough sleep problems when I have tried to go off. For now I have accepted to take the meds. Side effects is just unavoidable when taking AP’s. You can’t quit if you go into psychosis, so definitly look out for that.
Im currently doing a very slow taper off of my abilify. No supervision though, as i dont have a pdoc or anything these days. Sort of on my own in terms of mental health support. Was on 15mg of abilify then went to 10mg and now im on 5mg. Going to stay on the 5mg for at least a month and see how i feel. I might even just stay on the 5mg. See how i go.
But yeah good luck with your decision about the 5mg olanzapine. Hope it works out well for you wether you end up staying on it or getting off it. Risky business! Haha.
I was on 5mg for a long time, now I am on 10mg. I thought I was doing ok on 5mg, but actually going up to 10mg put my mind much more at ease. I’m not sure if I actually was experienceing symptoms though, or if I just was feeling more unpleasant emotions on 5mg.
Dear Zaza I think your wish of coming off of Olanzapine can be granted but you must understand that coming off of that meds easily can lead to Insomnia. You must plan getting off of the meds very carefully and structural. So the most important factor is time and dose. The 10 percent rule says that you can lower with 10 percent of the meds every 6 weeks so you must order Olanzapine drops by Micro taper pharmacy. You must understand that 5 mg of Olanzapine is a very critically dose and that if you don’t plan carefully the project will fail so do it in the span of maybe one year.
I’m in a somewhat same situation on my 800 mg of Seroquel. Those really can make you gain tons of weight.
But my doctor demand me to take all of those and if I don’t do so he will raise my dose of injectable which I find to be a much worse solution. So I eat very little quantities of food each day and mostly salats. Besides I avoid calorie rich beverages.
