ZYPREXA Reviews (OLANZAPINE)Average Rating: 2.5 (585 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ZYPREXA with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ZYPREXA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | bipolar | I had a good result in stopping mania but now I am more depressed and having suicidal ideation. | F | 40 | | 7/6/2005 | 2 | Mental | Swollen feet weight gain.. Can't sleep & shortness of breathe.. | F | 40 | 10 days 20 | 2/22/2012 | 1 | bi-polar and depression | Sleeping 12+ hours, major weight gain, no emotions, no motivation, NO sex drive, did not want to socialize. | This is a terrible drug! My doctor kept insisting that I needed to take it to keep my moods level, I finally took myself off of it. I've been off of it for a month an a half. Since then, I sleep normal hours, I have motivation, and I have my sex drive back. So far the only side effect of stopping the drug is that my right foot sweats! weird! I tried one other time to stop taking it and my left eye became droopy and I started taking it again. Thankfully I haven't had that problem this time. Please do your research, don't just trust your doctor. I feel so much better off this drug!! | F | 40 | 2 years 5 1X day | 3/9/2011 | 1 | drug of choice that month by dr | Diabetes EXTREME weight gain | Now that I have diabetes... 7 years later..my mother needs my kidney to survive...Now that I have diabetes..I can NOT help my mother! THANK YOU DOCTORS VERY MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You have ruined my life! DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG ITS POISEN!!!!!!!!! | F | 40 | 6 months | 10/25/2008 | 1 | Bipolar Type 1 (suicide attempts) | I always felt | This is a very dangerous drug. Can cause diabetes, raise cholesterol levels, and cause other serious metabolic problems. Doctors who prescribed this for me in the hospital never warned me about any of the serious adverse reactions. There are many other meds that are safer to use. Fortunately my current psychiatrist realized that it was probably raising my cholesterol levels. | M | 40 | 8 months | 11/25/2004 | 1 | Bipolar Type 1 - suicide attempts | It completely messed up my cholesterol profile. Everything was dangerously out of normal ranges. Had 30lb weight gain. After stopping it for 4 months, values returned to normal. | This drug is not safe. Can cause metabolic syndrome (diabetes, elevated cholesterol, etc.). There are many other safer alternatives. | M | 40 | 8 months | 11/25/2004 | 1 | Bipolar | Violently rapid frightening weight gain. Do not get afraid of your scale like I did; one month later and 40 pounds gained. Also, I could not figure out where the weight gain was coming from. The pounds flew on like magic even when I monitored my eating. I STILL cannot lose the weight and I've been off it 3 months. I lost months of my life due to this drug. All I recall is sitting around watching t.v. all day. Zoned. | This drug sucks like nothing has ever sucked before, and I seemed to have ingested the entire contents of the PDR in the past 20 years since my diagnosis. Want to be a brainless blimp? Have fun with Zyprexa! | F | 40 | 3 months | 7/1/2008 | 1 | Sleeping pill | Thoughts of harm towards myself and others. | M | 40 | 2 days 5mg 1X day | 9/29/2017 | 1 | bi polar rapid cycling | Tired and weak wake up with evil thoughts at God. No life like the old days. Weed is the only thing that brings peace . Zyprexa is good for sleeping and thats it!!! | M | 40 | 6 years 5MG | 7/20/2015 | 5 | Bipolar I | Morning somnolence, fogginess; puffy eyes; emotional flatness. | Zyprexa has been an extremely effective anti-manic agent for me, and also seems to help with depression. | M | 39 | 8 years | 4/6/2008 | 5 | bipolar | gain 3 lb,my face skin seems like getting bad. | i respond this medicine just after i took it two times when i was in hospital. I feel much much better and stop any suicide thinking. this is great medicine pill. | F | 39 | 24 days | 10/20/2005 | 5 | Schizophrenia/Bi Polar | Insomnia & Cholesterol & aware of diabetes problems | Most of you people seem so negative toward your own problems and a drug like this that improves the quality of one's own life. I suffer from insomnia once a week have high cholesterol and threat of diabetes. I can sleep as little as 6 hours if I choose or as long as 12 hours, sometimes even 8 hours is enough depends on what my body tells me. Seems you are all lazy and need to sleep longer to most of us, who have become accustomed to the tranquiliser in these sort of medications. I have not had to worry about sexual dysfunction as I don't let drugs rule me but work in with them. You people are spineless weak minded twits yes pregnant goldfish. I am working my way toward being stabilised on the this drug to walk away from my conditions. At the moment I lead a productive life ride a motorbike and never had an accident that was my fault. This medication has worked for me over 12 years of which like every medicine has side effects but none that you idiots discredit it to have. Maybe half of you are always swapping and changing you medications so frequently that you have residual side effects from previous medicine ever thought of that people? Lily has produced an excellent Psychiatric Medication that works wonders, with little and almost no side effect Job Well Done Lily. Stick that in your Pipe and smoke you Pessimistic Twits. | M | 39 | 12 years 10 1X day | 5/8/2011 | 4 | Cyclothymia | weight gain, unable to lose any weight. Lack of interest in sex, except during ovulation. Lighter, shorter periods (which I consider a blessing). Lack of motivation, even though I also take Adderall. Difficulty in getting up in the morning. Extreme craving for sugar...CONSTANTLY...so I guess it's also responsible for my constant breakouts. Little or no self control. Hard to feel things emotionally, especially romantically. | Despite all its faults, I have to admit that Zyprexa has done a satisfactory job of repressing my Bipolar symptoms...I'd say it's been between 75 to 85 percent effective. I started out taking Symbyax. The Prozac part of it wasn't entirely successful at getting rid of my anxiety problems, however, so my doctor switched me to Zyprexa alone and put me on Paxil. The Paxil has done wonders, and I haven't had any side effects from it. I have been weaning myself off of Zyprexa gradually--without consulting my doctor-- as I can't fit into most of my clothes now, and feel like I must almost certainly be unhealthy due to my constant sugar consumption. Pretty much the only reason I eat "real" food is so I can get to dessert without anyone being on my case. And what's especially strange to me are the sudden urges to eat when I'm not hungry. When I first started taking Symbyax I went through 2 to 3 cartons of ice cream a week, by myself...and oddly enough it HAD to be Breyers cookies and | F | 39 | 1 years | 10/5/2008 | 4 | Bipolar | 40 lb weight gain; cholesterol went up, so had to take a statin; blood sugars went up to the point I had to take pills for my diabetes, which had previously been diet-controlled. Off Zyprexa, weight decreased, cholesterol went back down, and I'm down 1/2 on the dosage of meds for diabetes. | This was the best drug I'd used for a mood stabilizer since diagnoses 4 ys ago. Since I had to quit it, I've been trying nearly 2 yrs to find a substitute, to no avail. The P-doc had thought he could counter the weight loss by coupling it with an appetite-suppressing type of antidepressant. Wrong. Newest P-doc presently thought Geodon would be similar; but Geodon had other problems, just as limiting. Very frustrating. I'm still hoping to find something I like as well as Zyprexa. | F | 39 | 18 months | 4/30/2005 | 3 | manic depression | -inability to feel sexual -totally blank mind -mood-less. no downs and no ups. -flattened creativity -inability to be in love -don't feel like exercising ever, even though that used to be one of life's great joys -hungry all the time. hungry for food, but not sex, nor anything else. -woke up and ate in sleep at high doses -don't get insights, or bubble with ideas, as before -weight gain. stopped it, still seem to be gaining although am not hungry or overeating anymore. -sleep 12hrs a night. blank dreamless sleep. wastes a life. -very very balanced. never upset, never critical, never angry --even when it's appropriate. --stagnating. | a wonder drug for stopping a manic episode (for me, it knocks out mania in 1-2 days), but a crummy ongoing stabilizer. it obliterates many of the reasons to be alive, such as feeling alive. BESIDES, I believe God does speak to me and through me and I don't like being flaming manic but I don't like shutting off my channel completely. I feel numb, like I've been brainwashed, and don't have the insights I would otherwise have--on a regular day, at MY baseline. No, specialists and drs, MY baseline is NOT on Zyprexa. there is more to life than eating and sleeping. A LOT. I do intend to keep zyprexa in my drug cabinet for when I might ever need it. I sometimes wonder though if Haldol would be better. doesn't work as fast, but less ongoing problems. | F | 39 | 2 years | 12/18/2006 | 2 | bi-polar disorder | weight gain, 25lbs in 3 months and still gaining | seems to work well with the manic stage of bi-polar disorder but because of the weight gain, I do not recommend it. | F | 39 | 3 months | 2/11/2003 | 2 | Bipolar | Some flattened affect, weight gain, moodyness in AM. | I take this medication only once per day in evening before bed and I'm really glad about that because I only get less than a half my waking day that I feel normal when its probably at its least concentration. I do sleep well if not even a little too well. Just wish I didn't feel out of it the first part of the day. Concerned about long term effects as well. | M | 39 | 2 years | 4/7/2006 | 2 | manic depression | psychosis with hallucinations. Ended up in the psych ward until it wore off. My family still laughs at the stuff I did when hallucinating. | F | 39 | 10 days 1X day | 8/2/2011 | 2 | schizoaffective | Raised PROLACTIN levels, weight gain, oversleeping. | Have stopped taking 2.5mg Zyprexa since 6 weeks. Have struggled with short amounts of sleep and a cloudy head.The weight loss is so far 4 kilos. Hope I have the strength to keep going without it. Girls- beware of the raised Prolactin levels- this is a common side effect. Check with your Dr what this means. | F | 39 | 5 years | 10/30/2007 | 1 | Bipolar II/rapid cycling mixd mania | Tremendous weight gain (40 pounds in 4 months!), significant memory impairment (would forget BIG things 12 to 72 hours afterward), persistent hypoglycemia and the perceived need to sleep about 70% of the time. | Didn't help with the bipolar disorder in the least. I believe that it only tones down the manic phase by making you want to sleep through it or just forget that it happened at all. NOT a drug I would recommend, even if you have been failed by everything else. | M | 39 | 4.5 months | 9/2/2007 |