Posted by Collete on August 17, 2001, at 11:35:00
In reply to Re: Just started Zyprexa with Prozac, posted by Greg on August 17, 2001, at 10:46:21
> Collette,
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> I've been taking Zyprexa for about 10 months and it's been a great med for me. It has really helped with the racing thoughts and my sleeping as well. I felt the benefits from it very quickly, within a few days. I've had some additional stress in my life over the last month or so and started to feel a little manic again. A few days my psych added Topamax to the mix and that seems to have done the trick. I feel a lot calmer and am sleeping thru the night without waking at all. He says I may experience some cognitive dulling at first from the Top, but it will pass. I'm still at the minimum dose.
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> I take my Zyprexa about an hour before bedtime. Just curious, how long have you been on the Prozac and how is it working out for you?
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> Greg
I've been on Prozac since it came out(maybe 14 years?)It really helped me tremendously with my depression & was an improvement over the tricycics I was using, but I have always had problems sleeping and over the years have used many things to help me sleep. The last few years I have become more & more dysthymic. This started me thinking that perhaps there was a better AD for me now. Also sleep has become even more troublesome. I believe my diagnosis now would probably be something like "soft bipolar" rather than bipolar as my "manic" has never been more than racing incontrollable thoughts, inability to focus, anger control...stuff like that, more that extreme highs. Whatever. I am finally seeing a pdoc and we starting with adding Depakote to my Prozac but that had little effect. I feel quite well today, but I think it is probably too soon to attribute this the one dose of Zyprexa. The meds I take to sleep are .5 mg Xanax, 2 benedryls & Soma. Pdoc says they are OK for the time being.
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