ZYPREXA Reviews

weight gain (7 kg over 6 months) drowsiness

i was manic and psychotic the first two months on zyprexa (I took zydis) and after two months I was stable, coherent, and normal again and I understood how weird my thought processes were before. So I suppose the drug works to normalize me. Doctor wanted me to continue on medication as preventive measure for future possible psychotic episode but I noticed steady weight gain (1-2 kg per month) since January, and even 3 kg on the sixth month. In total had gained 7 kg. I stopped the drug one month and one week now, and I stopped gaining weight, though I don't lose it, despite cutting down calories and exercising 5 times a week. I recommended it for manic and psychotic treatment, however the weight gain is too much to handle.
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Cons.. Weight gain Suicidal thinking Missed periods Forgetfulness Pros.. Increased mood Decrease in anger Increased motivation Decreased delusional thinking

Probably the only medication with notable positive effects aside from venlafaxine. Weight gain was killer..though the medication saved my life this past winter.

All my life I have been famished 24/7/365. Horrible. Fought weight gain successfully but tortured all those decades. Oddly and amazingly and joyously, this stuff completely took away all my hunger pains. A serious miracle. HOWEVER, even eating the same I always have, which isn't much, I gained about 20 pounds in 4 weeks!! Not only that but I was fat in places I was never fat in before...distended upper stomach area, especially. How are those two things even possible? But that's what happened. When I figured it out, I stopped cold turkey. I'd rather be crazy than fat and uncomfortable. I'm having a lot of trouble losing the weight now. .. maybe my age is a factor. MD minimized the weight gain possibility. It did really help the mania, though so I'm sad it cause d weight gain. Ps. I now take a teeny little nibble on a pill every AM to control my hunger, which miraculously does the trick!

Many thanks to all reviewers out there!

Faster than normal weight gain. 1.5 stone in 4 weeks. Fat belly that won't shift with diet or exercise. Can't awaken before 1pm (sleeping or laying in bed 14+hours) no interest in sexual activity.

The only thing that interests you is food. Any kind of sweets and fatty stuff no matter what's in it or where it comes from. You feel amazing when you stuff your face and stomach beyond full. Every activity becomes a time filler until you can eat again. Physical activity like jogging becomes so difficult because the heavily slowed metabolism makes it near impossible for you to cool down fast enough and get your now heavily shortened breath. Getting to sleep at nighttime ( previously being a night owl) is much easier but you habe no desire to get up as you only partially wake, feeling like you have no strength at all. Lying down feels like a gift from the heavens. You can pee like a racehorse but it holds up your bowels and gives you constipation. It's kills anxiety as you dont worry about the world at large (politics, poisons and toxins in the food production, drug company conspiracies, gmo mass sterilisation conspiracies, poison in the wheat and corn, mass social media experimentation and psych warfare through music, the Cold War) You feel that these things are not for you You can go into the supermarket and the shelves are full It's there. You consume it. You don't think of any questions.and everything is resultantly easier. Your bulging appearance is of no concern to you because your appetite for sex is non existent. You are a pet hamster

Extreme weight gain, grogginess, constant hunger

It worked for my mental health better than any other drug. But I stopped as the constant hunger led to extreme weight gain which caused health problems I hadn't had before

Severe grogginess in the morning. Shaky hands. Weight gain, at first. Dissociation! Short term memory loss. Loss of concentration. Crazy dreams. Loss of libido which isn't great when you are newly married, it's a lot of strain to put on a relationship. Luckily, I have an incredibly understanding partner.

Zyprexa has really helped immensely to keep my condition under control. I'm learning to live with the side effects.

Gained 25 pounds in a month

Works well for severe depression and anxiety. Will aleve intense anger very quickly. Great drug if necessary but your stomach will grow.

1) Weight Gain - gained 20 lbs after taking the drug 2) Constant hunger 3) Daytime sleepiness 4) Sedation - went away after about 2-3 weeks of use

This drug is a blessing and a curse. It did wonders for eliminating the symptoms I was experiencing but at the same time it is bad for my physical health. I am trying to counteract this by diet and exercise, hopefully that works but it is hard -- this drug made me so hungry all of the time.
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WEIGHT GAIN

I had a very good experience with Zyprexa. It got rid of my psychotic symptoms rather quickly. However, now it is time to come off and I have to taper slowly for a few months.

massive weight gain/night sweats/nightmares/restlesness

i took it 5 years ruined everything i was at my lowest at the time and when the doctor in the hospital suggested it i thought it would save my life what he didnt tell me how bad it could be he was like you may have drymouth but it will be good just give it time 5 years later i just got diagnosed with prediabetes because he didnt say anything about weight gain and the snowball started rolling picking up alot of the side effects they never told me, i quit my job and i got divorced i found a new doctor who looked at my files and came up with a plan to get rid of zyprexa most drugs have a substitute drug with less side effects but zyprexa doesnt it hooks into you and doesnt let go after 2 weeks on it in the beginning i tried to stop because i was starting to feel like a drug shouldnt be making me feel like this but my body went nuts after 24 hours so 5 years later i have plan to come of it slowly so i can loose the weight so i dont go full blown diabetic this drug seem great at the time since you have alot your dealing with but then years later its like what the hell it just added another 5 problems that i didnt know existed i try so many things that help me go off it almost there but i try yoga,relaxing music,images of nature,showers,exercise, cooking,youtbe helps me let me be your cautionary tale and zyprexa should be taken with caution but i do know that it helps some but it frustrates me to see people whos way of life may get ruined because they have not been taking it long.

I hate this drug. I feel it has ruined me and done me more harm than good. I couldn't stop eating on it and I gained so much weight. What scares me now is that even though I stopped it at least 7 months ago, my tummy is still long and round like I am pregnant. What is in my stomach? I have lost weight every where else but tummy is the same. Do I have a disease now? Shouldn't the side effects have cleared by now? I am very active and I eat very healthily so what exactly is in my stomach?

I don't know the specific details of my friend's taking this drug such as frequency of taking it, length of time taking the drug etc..All I know is that we were in the same psychiatric hospital together. And one day he said to me: "You know, while taking this drug for the first time in my life I feel like killing somebody". And some months later guess what? He's on a murder charge! This drug is lethal and it's influence upon consumption is evidently deadly. I was given it too with horrific, indescribable side effects WHICH the medical staff ignored saying "these drugs don't have side effects"..Can you believe that?

Most if not all people I've talked to who took this drug had pretty horrifying side-effects. Perhaps if we weren't talking about a multi-billion dollar industry (pharmaceutical); perhaps if no one had any financial vested interest in the making of this drug we as a society would be free of it and all other psychiatric drugs!
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Weight gain and diabetes, pituitary adenoma

This was a good medicine for me for 8 years but now my physical health is in jeopardy.

I have been taking zyprexa for five years Weight gain happen in first year, decreased weight gain after that because instead of eating two meals I ate one meal a day and snacked a little. This medicine worked for me for five years, switched to another med bc safer to be on other med when pregnant.

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Dry mouth, slight weight gain, dissociation in the mornings, foggy head, tired most of the time - but I'm alive.

I am currently taking Zyprexa as an alternative to my previous antipsychotic, Seroquel. I much prefer it. I was on 300mg per day of Seroquel with little relief for 2 years.. all the negative side effects outweighed the good. I have found Zyprexa works pretty well for me.. and the side effects have been minimal. My psych, GP and mental health nurse are all stoked that I haven't put on much weight. My psychotic symptoms are manageable.. my mood however is unchanged.. this is due to me not wanting to take mood stabalisers as well as Olanzapine. I still can't work.. but I'm enjoying some of the things I couldn't anymore, like music and art.
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Doesn't work as well after a week or so. Must mix it up with other stuff. Quality of sleep is very good and deep.

Obesity, minor facial ticks, devoid of emotion or desire or most feelings. Overall, just rehearsing old normal behaviours without the emotional investment. Going through the motions, so to speak.

Olanzapine is probably the best Psychiatry has to offer the extremely ill. It's a Purgatorial drug, no question, but it stops self-harm and harming others so long as it works on you, the individual. Some individuals are immune to all medications, so don't forget that Psychiatry is not mathematics. If they say they don't know, then they're being honest. That is science. At the end of the day, it comes down to this: do you want a certain quality of life with as little suffering as possible, despite the fact you will die earlier than most? Or, would you like to suffer intolerably until you're 75 years-of-age, so long as you don't stick your head in an oven beforehand? It is a lesser of two evils drug. PS: I chose the former for 8-years, chose the latter for 6-months, but now am wearing the consequences of it. Can I live with it? Who knows? Can I live without it? Who knows? But I think the inevitable will happen, and I'll forever futilely fight the reason they put me on that shit in the first-place. Welcome to the real world! Life's a bitch, and as the great Philip Roth stated: 'You have to hand it to life for the sheer amount of tools it has its disposal to bring a man down'. All the best.

Horrible Tremendous restlessness Very drugged. Was put on 5 other meds Cause of the side effects people said I was autistic don't go near it. Try anything before these apsycotics. Causes weight gain too Then the titration. Please please get off it!

Horrendous drug for teen

I get restlessness and in the last five years I have had racing thoughts along with the restlessness. This can last for eight hours and then if I go to sleep with it I wake up with it in the morning. It is destroying my life. I have also developed vision problems from the anxiety of life in general and I think because of this drug.

I really want to come off this drug but the Psychiatrist say that there isn't a drug that will work as well. I am very frustrated and angry at the mental health system. Its like a living hell that I'm living and I'm sure if I come off this drug I'll be much better. It has taken away some hallucinations and delusions but I feel I could cope with the halluncinations in my life quite fine now I know what they are. I really want to come off this medication.
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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!!!