Posted by blueberry on November 26, 2006, at 5:53:55
Problem:
For the first hour after waking from an 8 hour sleep, I have awful symptoms described in the next paragraph. Most of them go away on their own, but not completely. When I go to bed at night, these symptoms are absent. If I get only 5 hrs sleep, these symptoms are very minor. Something goes wrong in the last half of sleep.Physical Symptoms:
Parkinsons in fingers and thumbs...they shake a lot. As the day progresses, it slowly improves, but they are still shakey all day. The only time it is completely gone is a few hours after taking an evening 2.5mg zyprexa dose. The rest of my body is jittery just a tiny bit at waking and goes away. All day, if I move my arm, I can see the muscles in my breast area twitching on their own. All day, if I look in a mirror, I can see the little muscles in the bags under the eyes twitch uncontrollably when I move any other facial muscle. There is random twitching of other small muscles from time to time.Mental Symptoms:
I can go to bed feeling fairly fine. The best I will feel all day is at night before bed. I take 2.5mg zyprexa at about 5pm. I've tried dosing at various other times and it makes no difference.
When I wake, there is an overwhelming feeling of free-floating fear. Depression and anxiety are bad at waking, improve somewhat throughout the morning, then there is a depressive crash in the afternoon, followed by a decent mood in evening...this pattern repeats fairly reliably every day, and does not seem much influenced by changing eating patterns.Is this stuff EPS? Tardive? Hypoglycemia? Depression? Anxiety? Something gone wrong with zyprexa?
Prozac made all of the above problems even worse and created more new ones. But since it has been removed, the problems are still there.
I have been on 10mg-20mg prozac for 10 years. I have been on 2.5mg-5mg zyprexa for 10 years, mostly 5mg. None of the above symptoms showed up until year 8 (2005). They didn't exist before that.
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