Olanzapine? Any good?

alienshe_cheesycake · 09-05-2008, 02:51 PM

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 got stripes · 09-05-2008, 03:50 PM

If you're only hearing whispering now rather than an actual voice that counts as working I think. It generally takes a couple of weeks to feel the full effect so perhaps in time your voice will go away completely on it. :)

I take olanzapine, it doesn't make mine any quieter at all just makes me really tired a lot.

Puppet Strings · 09-05-2008, 03:52 PM

It sounds as it's having some sort of effect, from what you're saying, but you probably need to give it longer & all that jazz first. :)

I haven't been on it, no, but I wish you all the best with it.
Remember, someone's experience is only one person's and won't necessarily be the same as yours is/will be.

xx

siren_whisper · 09-05-2008, 04:56 PM

I used to be on Olanzapine (15mg). It really helped me but unfortunately also made me put on lot of weight.

Good luck with it!

Steel Maiden · 09-05-2008, 06:25 PM

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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.

ashtherabbit · 09-05-2008, 09:03 PM

it really helped me, that was until i stopped taking it and ended up in hospital. I gained alot of weight on it but i think this is the case with most AP's

Pyro · 09-05-2008, 09:04 PM

I'm on it and it seems to be working, i hardly ever here anything now apart from when i forget to take them, oops.

unfortunately though it made me lose a lot of weight. so i have to eat a lot which i don't enjoy =P

Steel Maiden · 09-05-2008, 09:34 PM

Olanzapine didn't affect my weight at all. Although it affected my energy levels and my mental speed.

little_miss · 10-05-2008, 03:33 PM

Im also on 7.5mg of olanzapine, and it totally knocked me out the first few days i was on it, but after that i noticed the effects, and it did help for a while, though i dont think its helping at the moment, and may need to be increased. But if its helping reduce the voice then id say keep on it, and keep speaking to your dr.

Spoons · 10-05-2008, 04:08 PM

i was on alot more, but i felt that the side effects outweighed the benefits, so i tried other medications.

pixie*lyssie · 10-05-2008, 04:30 PM

I was on olanzapine but they had to take me off it as it was causing me too much side effects. I found it helped with the voice but it made me gain a LOT of weight and made me sleep all the time.

Pyro · 11-05-2008, 12:32 AM

is there a reason some people loose loads of weight and some people gain it?

Spoons · 11-05-2008, 02:39 AM

i dont know if theres a reason, but i gained a stone just under on the stuff, not good for a person with an ed.

bleeding black · 11-05-2008, 06:43 AM

We gained weight, quite a bit. And it didn't help the psychosis.
Then we went on abilify, which did help but we got a bizzare side effect that made our eyes involuntarily stay glued to the ceiling.... On seroquel now. Is better, less side effects.

Steel Maiden · 11-05-2008, 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by bleeding black

We gained weight, quite a bit. And it didn't help the psychosis.
Then we went on abilify, which did help but we got a bizzare side effect that made our eyes involuntarily stay glued to the ceiling.... On seroquel now. Is better, less side effects.

Abilify was as good as poison for me. And the schizophrenia didn't go away for me. Actually I'm on olanzapine and the HTT say that my meds aren't working. Would explain why I have conversations with people that apparently don't exist.