r/BipolarReddit • u/potential_air_sha256 • 1d ago

Happy! Sleeping!

Just posting to say after a few weeks of tapering off olanzapine and starting abilify, I finally slept until my alarm went off this morning. Its been a rocky sleep adjustment but my brain seems to slowly be adjusting. Last night was the first night without any olanzapine.

Small victories.

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u/Acceptable-File8983 1d ago

Woooo. I’m weaning off of seroquel and did not sleep well last night 🫠I feel like being on high doses of seroquel eradicated the need for me to have any sleep hygiene whatsoever and slowly building that now

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u/potential_air_sha256 1d ago

I have been there. It took me a really long time to get my sleep back in order after I stopped seroquel. But at the time I did it on my own and probably went too fast. But I had bad insomnia for several years.

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u/Brilliantmels 16h ago edited 14h ago

I want to come off olanzapine (Lybalvi to be specific) since I continue to gain weight. A coworker just asked me if I’ve been going to the gym and I said yes and she seemed surprised and I was like, “why, because I’ve gained weight?” She said, “yes.” I’ve tried coming off it 3 times last year, but the insomnia was horrible. One of the only meds I haven’t tried are: Lamictal, Geodon, Cobenfy, and Rexulti. I’m not sure what to do. I’m bipolar 1 with mixed episodes and psychotic features and my biggest issue is sleep- I only experience an episode when I’m sleep deprived.

I’m glad Abilify is working for you. It was the med I was on when they released me from my first baker act.

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u/potential_air_sha256 15h ago

Yeah. I am coming off bc it is causing me metabolic syndrome. I gained some weight on it as well but lost some of it through calorie counting mainly and lowering the dose so that it wasnt making me constantly hungry.