Originally Posted by
jess_alienshe_cheesycake
Just started on a small dose of Olanzapine (7.5mg) take it at night with 30mg of Mirtazapine, It's supposed to help with the voice that I hear in my head, which lately, has gotten a lot more scary and aggressive
Is anybody else on this drug?
Has it helped much?
I've been on it about 5 days?
The voice I hear is only occasional whispering now
but I don't know if it would have gone away anyway without the medication??
How do you know if the medication is working or not?
Will it make the voice go away completely?
Also I feel slightly (really slightly) more chilled except at night when I get weird figety legs.
I'm wondering if they will up my dose or not if I say that I think it's helping
slightly.
I don't think they were keen to put me on an anti-pychotic anyways
so I doubt it, but I wish I was feeling a bit more chilled....
I'm on 20mg olanzapine. In the past 10mg has got rid of 80% of my schizophrenia symptoms (mainly voices and visual hallucinations), but I went cold turkey against medical advice and now I'm on 20mg, which isn't helping a lot. So my advice is: follow medical advice.
On the good side, it looks like it is working for you.
Olanzapine usually takes 2 weeks to reach a therapeutic dose.
"Fidgety legs" is otherwise known as "restless legs" and is a side-effect.
You will know if the medication is working because the symptoms will decrease.
I hope that things will carry on getting better.