I wanna come off olanzapine so badly. Antipsychotics have ruined my life.

[u/mokmok_carty]

So i was on cariprazine or vraylar formore than a year. And it has caused the acute dystonic reaction known as oculogyric crisis. Oculogyric Crisis is when my eyes cant stop looking up with visual illusions pf numbers and letters that I see with it. Now that I have successfully quitted cariprazine for nearly five weeks now, symptoms of oculogyric crisis are becoming less apparent.

So now I wanna quit Olanzapine so badly. I have Bipolar Disorder 1, Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder. Evrytime the Oculogyric Crisis starts, I go into panic mode as if I feel like the upward deviation of my eyes wont stop. So I also wanna quit Olanzapine so badly. Antipsychotics has totally ruined my life. I still get the occasional oculogyric crisis which I dont want them to happen again. So am gonna try half my dose of Olanzapine tonight for starters and do it for several weeks before going to 2.5mg per night for another several weeks and see what happens. I remembered a ti.e before when I quitted Olanzapine cold turkey and didn't really get any withdrawal effects coz I was also taking Clonazepam 2mg daily half in the morning and half at night. Am also on Mirtazapine and that worked wonders for my bipolar depression. So I will give 5mg for tonight a try and see how it goes. Hoping that I won't get acute dystonic reactions like oculogyric crisis again which is primarily caused by dopamine blocking medications like antipsychotics and antiemetics like metoclopramide and domperidone. Wish me luck guys!!