Too many drugs

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I have been feeling very low and anxious for a few months and it finally ended in crisis and had ti be admitted to a mental health facility. I was there for 2.5 weeks and prescribed quite a lot of drugs which I am quite concerned about taking long term.

60mg duluxetine - I'm ok about this one
25ng quetiapine at night
2.5mg x 2 olanzapine
7.5 mg zopliclone

0.5 clorazapam if required

I'm worried about the "pine" ones as I think they are making me mega zonked out - feel quite stoned and I won't be able to go back to work on them.

Does anyone have any experience of being on them? It's been 3 weeks today since I started the quetiapine and 6 days since I started the olanzapine. I was wondering whether I could taper down to half amounts now.

I have the clorazapam in case I get anxious. I'm aware that in a normal world I would be feeling anxious. But obvs am feeling ok now.

I am also on hrt - oestrogel, utrogestan and testosterone. I've always been anxious but it got horrific this summer. I am perimenopausal but my anxiety and depression got to a level like never before. I have had a Newson health appointment and she upped my hrt to 100mg patch but mental health consultant said to go back on oestrogel as symptoms got way worse once I started the patches. I was hoping they'd mend me!!

Any advice very gratefully received.

This is not a question for here.. everyone reacts different to different medications.. l think you should discuss with your health care professionals.
As a sufferer myself l wish you nothing but the best x

I think it's good to ask here OP because many people have useful info to share

May I ask why they have given so many meds?

Also, were you on any meds before the crisis?

I was on zopliclone and lorazepam for anxiety. Anxiety turned into depression and suicidal thoughts hence crisis.

Consultant psychiatrist put me on those meds whilst in hospital.

It's more likely that it is the Zopiclone which is making you feel zonked out - it is specifically a sleeping medication. I would discuss with your doctor starting to reduce this first.

I thought this was going to be about frying your brain with illegal drugs

Modern medicine is a pretty good thing, the legal prescribed drugs I mean

Ah, so you were on a couple of very full on meds at the start.

I started a thread about recovering from a breakdown, and I often mention the tearfulness I get after taking diazepam. I can imagine lorazepam tipping you from anxiety into depression tbh.

a few of us have mentioned feeling overmedicated.

what was the consultant's reasoning for adding the others? Are they sedating or energising?

The "pines" are anti psychotics - used to relieve anxiety. The anxiety was very, very bad. Waking up at 4 or 5 am and literally terrified which then turned me into being suicidal. Properly suicidal.

I was trying to not have the clomapazam whilst in hospital and was given the olanzapine as an extra drug to combat anxiety last Weds morning. I'd had a clomazepam on the Tues morning and I cried all day so on a proper downer.

Is there a point where you weren't taking any meds, including HRT?

is there a way you can track how things went with each addition or alteration?

I've been on hrt for 2 years. Started taking zopliclone and lorazapam sporadically then more regularly from mid June onwards.

I'm a mental health nurse. The doses for the quetiapine and olanzapine are very low (pretty much half the usual starting dose) whereas the zopiclone dose is high, so I would imagine it's the zopiclone that's affecting you, especially mixed with clonazepam. That is a pretty heavy meds list though. Do you find that the meds/the admission helped? When are you next seeing your psychiatrist/CPN? I wouldn't change medication without medical advice from a clinician that knows you.

I haven't had any clomazapam since last Tues so very nearly a week.

I've never been zonked out on zopliclone before but could be it. I think it's the olanzapine as I started feeling wierd the day after I started taking it.

Seeing consultant on Thurs.

Sounds like things maybe got worse with HRT,or the wring combo

also, wondering why they gave you gave you lorazepam initially rather than an SSRI. Also surprised as been with various doctors and they are reluctant to give out those.

Dr did put me on citalapram but I had very bad side effects such as 1 hour sleep a night and teeth clenching and headaches. Duloxetine seems far better