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Hi Andy, New to this site. Thanks for sharing your story. I am mom to 17 year old who was hospitalized last year due to psychosis. He had gone 5 days without sleeping and we missed all the signs. He was put on Zyprexa at 15mg. After 5 months of outpatient treatment we had him completely weaned off. He went from the Zyprexa to Oxcarbazapine. He eventually went off of that too - all within a 6 month period. Psychiatrist believed it was a one time episode due to lack of sleep. A year later - to the day, he came to us to let us know he hasn't slept again. Melatonin and unisom did not work so we gave him the Oxcarbazapine. It also did not help. The Psychiatrist had told us if we were ever in the situation again, to give him the Zyprexa. We just did. It has been 3 days with two - 2 hour sleeping periods. He is terrified of this medication but he is finally sleeping. We don't want this to be part of his routine as he could barely function on it. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks for any insight
