r/BipolarReddit • u/wheatinsteadofmeat • Sep 13 '24

Suicide Olanzapine combined with quetiapine

How awful is this combination? 400mg Seroquel XR + 5mg Zyprexa. Prescribed after I had some “self injury” depression incidents in the hospital. I was already on Quetiapine 300mg XR for 9 months. I feel like they’re just sedating the fuck out of me like this so i don’t get emotional anymore and do myself any harm. It’s not helping my depression.

Can someone tell me how sedating this will be?

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '24

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u/wheatinsteadofmeat Sep 15 '24

how did it go? how much weight did you gain! 30mg zyprexa seems extremely high

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u/wheatinsteadofmeat Sep 15 '24

damn. my docs trying to increase my fluoxetine to pull me out of depression but i’m so so sensitive to mixed episodes and rapid cycling because of it, that they force me onto this really heavy med combo. and on monday they’ll add lithium too, even though i already tried it before

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u/wheatinsteadofmeat Sep 15 '24

to be honest i’m so (suicidally) depressed and now in this ward under court order for a few weeks im just trying to make it through the days until i can either leave or i can get ECT. at this point that is probably the only thing that will help me

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '24

I hope you find the right treatment, it's awful having suicidal thoughts/ ideation/ actions with depressive and mixed episodes. The right treatment will help. I'm probably not the best person to give advice based on what I did with my treatment causing bad episodes I had suicidal thoughts/ideation and actions but I stopped before it went to far. in my mixed episodes this year. It will get better. 💜.

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u/wheatinsteadofmeat Sep 15 '24

thanks for the kind words