Posted by blueberry1 on January 9, 2007, at 15:23:12
In reply to Diazepam for rebound insomnia due to zyprexa w/d, posted by ronaldo on January 9, 2007, at 11:51:22
Maybe diazepam's halflife is too long Ronaldo? Maybe xanx would have been better. Maybe call the doc and ask him to call in a xanax prescription. Anyway, you could try reducing the dose. Try taking earlier instead of at bedtime? Or you could try reducing the dose as much as possible and combine it with a 1/2 dose (25mg) of benadryl. That sounds good to me. The benadryl sort of duplicates the antihistimine part of zyprexa, without all the other complicated zyprexa stuff, and might make it faster to get off it.
Sulpiride is not a bad option as long as the dose is low where it works as a dopamine stimulator more than a dopamine blocker. It also would probably make getting off zyprexa easier and faster.
I've been on 25mg amisulpride for about 10 days. Tried 50mg for 2 days but really want 25mg to be enough. I'll give it more time. So far it has increased motivation...I get laundry and stuff done where before I couldn't. I would say depression has improved about 20% in 10 days. I have a long way to go and doubt amisulpride alone will do it, but I'll take every little bit I can.
That zombie feeling. I have found what duplicates it. If I take more than a 1/2 dose of benadryl I wake up with the exact same zyprexa zombie feeling I used to have. Except with benadryl it goes away in about an hour after waking, where zyprexa hung around all the time. So now I'm wondering if it is that antihistimine part of it that did it.
I send you my best wishes to get some ZZZZzzzzzz.
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