Hi, I'm Tracy

Hi, I’m Tracy and I am currently tapering off Olanzapine. I was prescribed it last November for sleep. It definitely helped me with my acute severe insomnia. But I knew immediately that I shouldn’t stay on it forever. I was taking 5mg and am down to 1 mg (reducing by 0.5 mg/month). I found a compounding pharmacy to help with this taper. I started having withdrawal symptoms about 1 week ago (sweats, nausea, vomiting, lack of appetite, no sleep). Just wondering if this is normal and how long I can expect the withdrawal symptoms to last. Also wondering how long I should hold at 1mg before reducing, and looking for advice to get me through to zero. I was prescribed the Zyprexa in the ER last November because I was so exhausted from insomnia. But I have had zero help from the medical community with the taper and have just figured it out myself. I was told by my Dr. to just cut down to 2.5 and then after 2 weeks to zero, but that did not work and I ended up back at 5mg. Thank you!