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Can Olimelt Be Taken For Paranoid Delusion?

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Posted on Mon, 21 Dec 2015
Question: My wife is suffering from Paranoid Psychosis for last 3 years. She has been tested with various combination of drugs. But her paranoia and hallucination remains. Recently she has started taking Olimelt 20 mg. 1 tab daily. Will this drug able to bring her back in balanced condition. We are having two kids son of 8 year and daughter of 1 year. Both are heavily dependent on her. Please advice.
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Answered by Dr. Seikhoo Bishnoi (50 minutes later)
Brief Answer:
She will come out of her illness

Detailed Answer:
Hello, Welcome to Health Care Magic

I can understand your concern. First of all I'd like to tell you that mental disorders runs in a chronic course and regular long term treatment is advised to get remission of symptoms. She was on Fluvoxamine and then on Aripiprazole and Risperidone but no response seen. If we consider Olanzapine then the drug is almost similar in efficacy as Risperidone but different individuals respond differently to drugs, so we can give Olanzapine a try. Apart from Olanzapine if her obsessive symptoms are persisting then in my opinion there is need to add some SSRI also especially like Fluoxetine. Even combination of Olanzapine and Fluoxetine is available in market.

So please don't loose hope, as she is seeing illness in episodes so chances of response are better. With medicines she will come out of symptoms.

Thanks, Hope this helps you, if you have more doubts you can ask again.
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Can Olimelt Be Taken For Paranoid Delusion?

Brief Answer: She will come out of her illness Detailed Answer: Hello, Welcome to Health Care Magic I can understand your concern. First of all I'd like to tell you that mental disorders runs in a chronic course and regular long term treatment is advised to get remission of symptoms. She was on Fluvoxamine and then on Aripiprazole and Risperidone but no response seen. If we consider Olanzapine then the drug is almost similar in efficacy as Risperidone but different individuals respond differently to drugs, so we can give Olanzapine a try. Apart from Olanzapine if her obsessive symptoms are persisting then in my opinion there is need to add some SSRI also especially like Fluoxetine. Even combination of Olanzapine and Fluoxetine is available in market. So please don't loose hope, as she is seeing illness in episodes so chances of response are better. With medicines she will come out of symptoms. Thanks, Hope this helps you, if you have more doubts you can ask again.