Jwicks1995
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TLDR; Olanzapine (Zyprexa) is meant to majorly disturb the endocrine system, increase prolactin, lower testosterone etc. Is there a way to mitigate this? HCG? Pregnenolone? Not using the medication is not a possibility for this stage - at least until I stabilize. The dosage will be low - 2.5mg
So after many years of many varying pursuits at treating my health both physically and mentally, I think I've finally come across something that works. The Anti Psychotic - Zyprexa - although it is too early to tell - 2 days in I can actually FEEL again. My mind isn't stuck inside of a small box of avoidance and paranoia of every possibility of every bad thing possible.
My issues arose when I started to become EXTREMELY fatigued. Thought it was sleep apnea. Got tested. High AHI. although dodgy doctor looking back. Put on a CPAP. Things slowly got worse and worse. Got put on SSRI things got bad. Then discovered low carb/carnivore. BING BING BING! A light bulb in my head turns on! I'm cured! Or so I thought. After about a year on SSRI's I tapered off. And then surely but slowly things got REALLY BAD. I was extremely malnourished and super skinny. Not on any medication and eating OMAD Carnivore while still using a CPAP. (turns out I suffer from some sort of hypersensitvity to stimuli/allergies) and the CPAP was flaring my symptoms up so bad which presented as physical fatigue and mental disturbances i.e brainfog etc etc.
The icing on the cake was when I was experimenting with high doses of DHEA as it gave me alot more stamina and stress resistence. However, after about a month in i completely broke. Had a motorcycle accident because I was so anxious on the road, malnourished and stressed everynight hooked up to the hellish CPAP machine.
Since then I have been locked inside hell in my brain. Not as bad as before I stopped using CPAP though, the first night off that I wondered how the hell i'd never even gone one night off of it test what it'd feel like. Although I was much more tired the foggyness vanished like 50%. However most of these issues have stayed ever since.
Unfortunately, I'm back on an SSRI as I thought I'd screwed up my serotonin system. The past 3 months I've read much about raypeat. Implemented many of his methods. Cyproheptadine & Nortriptyline provided some relief - although it was hit and miss. And seemed to make me backed up. Anti- seretonin substances always seem to make me feel the most "normal" yet have never been able to find something that really works. Perhaps its actually the dopamine ANTAGONISM that is the icing on the cake for my brain. I've tried at least 30 different medications.
I feel so much more stable on Zyprexa - but I'm terrified about the weight gain and endocrine disturbances.
I have 5 adhp, progesterone & pregnenolone on hand luckily. My dose is small - going to go 5mg for the first week to tone down my hyperactive mind - and then down to 2.5mg for however long it takes to get to the route of my health. Whilst also SLOWLY tapering off of lexapro.
So after many years of many varying pursuits at treating my health both physically and mentally, I think I've finally come across something that works. The Anti Psychotic - Zyprexa - although it is too early to tell - 2 days in I can actually FEEL again. My mind isn't stuck inside of a small box of avoidance and paranoia of every possibility of every bad thing possible.
My issues arose when I started to become EXTREMELY fatigued. Thought it was sleep apnea. Got tested. High AHI. although dodgy doctor looking back. Put on a CPAP. Things slowly got worse and worse. Got put on SSRI things got bad. Then discovered low carb/carnivore. BING BING BING! A light bulb in my head turns on! I'm cured! Or so I thought. After about a year on SSRI's I tapered off. And then surely but slowly things got REALLY BAD. I was extremely malnourished and super skinny. Not on any medication and eating OMAD Carnivore while still using a CPAP. (turns out I suffer from some sort of hypersensitvity to stimuli/allergies) and the CPAP was flaring my symptoms up so bad which presented as physical fatigue and mental disturbances i.e brainfog etc etc.
The icing on the cake was when I was experimenting with high doses of DHEA as it gave me alot more stamina and stress resistence. However, after about a month in i completely broke. Had a motorcycle accident because I was so anxious on the road, malnourished and stressed everynight hooked up to the hellish CPAP machine.
Since then I have been locked inside hell in my brain. Not as bad as before I stopped using CPAP though, the first night off that I wondered how the hell i'd never even gone one night off of it test what it'd feel like. Although I was much more tired the foggyness vanished like 50%. However most of these issues have stayed ever since.
Unfortunately, I'm back on an SSRI as I thought I'd screwed up my serotonin system. The past 3 months I've read much about raypeat. Implemented many of his methods. Cyproheptadine & Nortriptyline provided some relief - although it was hit and miss. And seemed to make me backed up. Anti- seretonin substances always seem to make me feel the most "normal" yet have never been able to find something that really works. Perhaps its actually the dopamine ANTAGONISM that is the icing on the cake for my brain. I've tried at least 30 different medications.
I feel so much more stable on Zyprexa - but I'm terrified about the weight gain and endocrine disturbances.
I have 5 adhp, progesterone & pregnenolone on hand luckily. My dose is small - going to go 5mg for the first week to tone down my hyperactive mind - and then down to 2.5mg for however long it takes to get to the route of my health. Whilst also SLOWLY tapering off of lexapro.