Olanzapine withdrawal ride from hell

HI Margaret

I just messaged you but sorry hve just realized to the wrong person so read my response to you via Dr Noldea

I did say I hve been experiencing confusion!☺

but its also early morning!

Thinking of u

Kerry

How long, after you tapered off your very last minuscule dose, did the withdrawals start for you?

Doctors dismissed me when I said my son was going through withdrawal.

I didn't do it that way. I shot myself straight into not taking the pill at all. The withdrawal started the next day. In retrospect, with how long I was sleepless for, I could have been reducing sendibly, I could sleep unmedicated in May, 12 months after I began going into cold turkey.

After this method, being that it's a gentler one, the only wirhdrawal symptom you would be left with would be the voices.

Hello maybefine  I have been on olanzepine for 10 years and have reduced my medication from 5mg to .2.5 mg for two weeks and then 2.5 mg  every other day  and then I have to see my doctor for further advice I have medication withdrawal can you advise me?  Best wishes from Margaret

Okay.

So if 5 mg is all you need currently to feel good and safe, let's start from there. If however you would benefit from a higher dose to feel comfortable and happy, raise the dose to as much as you want.

Maybe to 10 mg. Maybe 20 mg?

Take this dose for a week.

From then on, seeing as you've been on the medicine for 10 years (you were on 5mg consistently? I was on 10, let's do the same formula anyway) you will be ideally coming off the med for 10*2 months. 20 months.

That's quite a long time, but hopefully this way you'll be sleeping comfortably all the way. I don't think 2 weeks will do it, unfortunately as I tried that intuitively and I was jumping up and down with insomnia for 12 months.

So my advise is, foremost to check if these pills can be dissolved. There are orodispersable variants, maybe they can be dissolved? If you can dissolve the pill into a beaker, then measure out the 1/20monthsworth increment to take out every day, of your dose... you can reduce to 0 in 20 months. If not, see how small you can cut the pills with a pill cutter. Mete out the periods of time you can reduce these for, and take let's say 1/20th of a pill less every month? 

The crux is, if at any point you feel you can't sleep, go to the previous month's(?) increment in dosage, and work out a new formula, with a new 20 month span, of how to reduce that new dose to 0.

I just don't think 4 weeks will do it, it didn't for me.

So, you can start the process at 5 mg, or start it at 10, or 20 or however much you want that would make you feel happy now. 20 months is a long time, you wouldn't want to halve your chances or anything.

Hello maybefine  Many thanks for your information regarding olanzapine  I found it very informative and helpful  I will keep you informed!  kind regards from Margaret

Kind Regards

Hello Sorry for slow response and thanks for yr reply/advice on reducing to come off Olanzapine Unfortunately I did it the real tough way going cold turkey The first 2 months hve been awful/quite scarey but I feel things are now slowly settling down

Same for me; I am the patient. They listen to my wife (who had me sectioned into the psychiatric ward under the Mental Health Act) But they will simply dismiss anything I try to tell them.

vbery familiar with that scenario.

Hi Margaret a good way to get off these evil pills is to use sandpaper to cut back slower.just sand them down gradually.remember not to withdraw to quickly.good luck

Hello Margaret Sorry for my slow response I usually get a notification if Ive received a reply Anyway I feel Im through the worst of the withdrawal symptons I do hope so! Im now into taking quality supplements to help improve my overall health

Im a kiwi living in New Zealand Where abouts in the U.K r u?

Kind regards

Kerry