hayduke: coming off olanzapine / Zyprexa

Hi all, I had a toxic break in mid 1990s. Was self medicating due to unresolved childhood trauma. I wasn’t coping with how difficult my life had become. I wasn’t making wise choices - but not all of us in our early 20s do… Parents called crisis team and I was told by psychiatrist I had a chemical imbalance and would require endless drugging. I replied I know my life is out of whack - I’d read R.D Laing at uni and asked if there was somewhere I could go to get help sor

Here’s how I do it. In this example I want to take 1.5mg but I only have a 2.5mg tablet. I use a spreadsheet to do these maths. Plenty of examples around the forum. 1.5/2.5 == 0.6, or 60% ( the amount of the tablet I want to ingest ) 0.6 of 50 ml == 30 ml ( amount of liquid suspension to ingest ) 50 - 30 == 20 ml ( amount of liquid suspension to discard ) - pour a glass (1) of filtered water - have an empty glass (2)

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