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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ZYPREXA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Generalized Anxiety Disorder | The day after my first dosage I had this weird feeling in my head. It felt like my head was a balloon and someone was blowing it up. Weird. It only lasted a couple of days. | I was having problems with constant worry about nothing as well as chronic insomnia. After taking 2.5 mg of Zyprexia for 3 nights, I felt normal again. I wasn't worrying and I could sleep. I couldn't believe I had such a wonderful response to such a small dosage. I hope it lasts! | F | 49 | 7 days | 3/22/2009 | 3 | psychotic episode | Huge weight gain 4 and a half stones in like 3 months. Felt like i was wading through glue couldnt get the motivation to move from one room to the next. less menstration. hopelessness-did stop the psychosis. I have met people who get on real well with this drug- i changed to seroquel and it suits me much better. | This is good in a crisis as it will put u straight to sleep and make u unable to think. However for me seroquel was much more effective and the side effects were less. | F | 27 | 9 months | 3/15/2009 | 5 | Fibromyalgia Borderline Personality | weight gain | This was prescribed for Fibromyalgia and insomnia. This took the edge off my chronic pain and helps with chronic insomnia.. then a side effect for the BPD, i feel better than ever, i can concentrate and study, i haven't been paranoid, i can function much much better. i feel more stable and consistent. This has changed my life for the better i am very very grateful! | F | 41 | 6 months | 3/12/2009 | 1 | Bipolar, mood swings | Terrible, frightening attack on a subway train. I had just started the drug 2 days prior. Profuse sweating and nausea that lasted 8 minutes. The sweating was ridiculous -- I soaked a full down coat and sweat was running down my legs into my shoes. My head was swimming, and I couldn't focus my eyes for a while, nor could I summon the muscular coordination to stand. After it was over, I had some "äftershocks" but otherwise was fine. | Constant light nausea. Sleeping problems. I DONT RECOMMEND AT ALL. | F | 27 | 45 days | 3/11/2009 | 5 | bipolar disorder (deppression) | huge weight gain, gone from size 14 to 18 in two weeks, and keep gaining weight, constant feeling of hunger, feel like a zombie, too much sleep | although it has a very bad side effect of weight gain this med helps me a lot each time I fall into depression with suicidal thoughts. It works within days and there are no signs of withdrawal after weaning off in two or three weeks. | F | 43 | 3 weeks | 3/2/2009 | 2 | who knows! (to avoid psychosis?) | I was only on a low dosage. (Can't remember how much) Really bad dehydration - dry mouth, dark poo!, constipation. Weight gain - put on about 10 kg (which made me more depressed!) Felt Yuck - like you do when you first get on a anti-biotic. | They stuck me in a mental hospital cause I was going nuts-oid and nearly topped myself. I was already on Effexor (for Major Depression and OCD/OCPD)and was fine with that, because I felt that was working - though they were still increasing the dosage slowly. In the psych ward, on day one, they tried to force feed me some sleeping tablets and zyprexa. I refused intially, saying I was not delusional, nor schizo, and I would get better by being left alone - the reason I'd become sick, was because everyone was bothering me out in the world and I just needed to be left alone to feel better!. I got through without the sleeping tablets, slowly finding my sleep pattern again, to their amazement. In the meantime some nice doctor asked me to take the zyprexa "just in case" I was heading towards psychosis with the Depression. (When some nasty nurses ordered me to, I'd told them to "shove it"). I felt it did nothing but made me feel icky. The increase of Effexor was bett | F | 33 | 2 months | 2/15/2009 | 4 | Paranoid Schizophrenia | Sleeping 12 hours a day, mild sexual disfunction (can't ejaculate and milder orgasms) | I've been taking 15 milligrams at night. It is a miracle drug as far as the schizophrenia is concerned. It was just like not being schitzophrenic anymore. I'm not being put on a lower dose to curb the excessive sleeping and they are adding abilify. | M | 19 | 3 months | 2/9/2009 | 1 | bipolar depression | apathy, extreme hunger,12pound wt gain in 10days,fine hand tremors,fuzzy hand eye coordination,facial bloating,listless | awful medication 10mg@nite 5mg daytime seeing doctor this am never will touch zyprexa again! | M | 18 | 14 days | 2/9/2009 | 4 | Depression & Anxiety | Gained 25 lbs. in two months. | This drug was the best I'd ever taken for the often severe depression I've had for years (but thankfully has subsided for the past 2+ years). It was stopped due to the weight gain, which I can't afford due to spine and joint problems. However, if I could find a way to deal with the weight gain and ever needed something for depression and anxiety again I would use this medication. It worked FAST, within DAYS I felt better than I had in a very, very long time, and I had no other side effects. I was energetic, higher sex drive than when depressed and optimistic about my life. | F | 51 | 3 months | 2/8/2009 | 1 | Rage/Anxiety | Somnolence (could sleep 16 hours per day), muscle twitching/jerking. | Didn't do anything except make me sleep all the time and cause my muscles to twitch and jerk. | M | 28 | 2 weeks | 2/2/2009 | 3 | anxiety | I have been taking 15mg of Zyprexa for about 6 weeks. It seems to work ok and taken at bedtime provides very restful sleep.One problem however - my libido seems to be disappearing. I have always had a strong and healthy libido and absolutely no erectile problems.My pleasure relay in the brain (for sexual feeling) seems to be shutting off. I have researched online and this side effect is apparently fairly common as the posts on this site prove out. I have also experienced the accelerated appetite and very slight weight gain. (I have a very regular and steady metabolism and the weight gain has bee minmal @ 5-6 lbs with no further gain). No medication is worth losing your sexual function. I am going to taper down the dosage (to 1/2 = 7mg)and see if that helps. I am convinced that this (Zyprexa)is the cause of this strange numbing of my sex drive and intercepting of my brains signals for erectile function. If the reduced dosage restores my normal drive,I will stay on it at the lesser dose. | M | 37 | 6 weeks | 2/1/2009 | 1 | ocd and depression | Severe weight gain (50 lbs) in 2 months. Eyes dazed and confused, unable to look people directly in the eye. Changed the shape of my body, changed my face (random deposits of fat, asymmetrical). People didn't recognize me. Plastic face, no reaction, delayed response to comments. Zombie eyes. | The doctor misdiagnosed OCD and depression for bipolar. Forced to take 40mg a day or else threat of inpatient treatment. This was before my first year of college. Never had problems with people before but couldn't make a friend in new environment with the way I looked now. Sad, sallow fat face, no ability to show reactions. People stayed away from me now; a huge shock and blow to my ability to believe in myself. I knew I looked bad, but just not in a way I could put my finger on - like the "glitter" or "spark" was lost. Please consider other options before this drug - there are options! It has been years since I stopped taking it, but the ramifications have snowballed and I still can't lose the weight consistently (fat cells accumulate, metabolism changes) even though I was very athletic in high school. My eyes are a little better now, but my mom was, for the longest time, concerned with why they just spontaneously glazed over. Zyprexa had NO effect on managi | F | 22 | 2 months | 1/29/2009 | 1 | Schizophrenia | flushing toilet | poison | M | 51 | 15 years | 1/24/2009 | 1 | schizo/paranoid/depression | I did not like the drug at all.No sex drive and did not help me at all.Slept at lot and lo ebbed.I stopped taking it and woke up at 4:00am with cold sweats,clastaphobia,anxiety bad.I spent all day walking,went back to hospital for suicidal problems. | I explored caves alot.I would not give it to my worst enemy but then again what a form of torture. | M | 57 | 10 months | 1/15/2009 | 5 | bipolar | hunger, gained 2-3 pounds in one week | made me calm, stable, and a nicer person. it's a wonderful medication, but i gained 2-3 pounds in one week. i was craving carbs like crazy. i was on 2.5 mg. | F | 25 | 1 weeks | 1/7/2009 | 1 | Bipolar II | Weight gain of 45 Lbs, Loss of Libido, Fatigue | Craved carbs, gained 45 pounds & 6 inches on my waist. Became a real fatso. | M | 24 | 1 years | 12/27/2008 | 2 | Depression - Self injury | Constantly Tired - Weight Gain - Muscle twitching | After a very serious self inflicted injury I was put on Zyprexa - 20mg/day. I became very sedated from this medication. I could sleep 18 hours a day on weekends and had to take naps during the week while working. I gained about 40 lbs in 4 months (going from 120lbs to over 160lbs.) After a few months I developed muscle twitches which progressed in severity. I was told that at night it seemed like I was having seizures sometimes. (This was treated with benzotropine.) I now question the need for this medication and would reccomend against its use.Eventually, with my doctor's consent I was removed from this and the Celexa I was also taking with out side-effects. That was 7 years ago and I haven't had a return of the depression that I havent been able to manage without medication. | M | 36 | 16 months | 12/23/2008 | 1 | My nephew was taking Zyprexa | If anyone is even "thinking" about taking Zyprexa I would strongly urge you to "think again". My nephew is in a home for troubled boys and years ago they started him on Ritalin. Later they tried him on one drug, then another. The last thing they tried him on after diagnosing him as Bi Polar was Zyprexa. He is 11 years old and in 2 months he went from a normal appearing kid to a kid that appears to be totally spastic. If he sits down on a chair it's only a few seconds before he's on the floor. His muscles are in constant spasm, his back hurts all the time and he has lost 20 pounds in 2 months. When his mother took him to court last week trying to get him into another home the judge couldn't believe her eyes. She couldn't believe what this drug had done to him. This drug needs to be banned before it ruins thousands of lives. The doctors say he may never recover from this and he could end up dying. | M | 11 | 7 days | 12/18/2008 | 1 | Mood disorder | My very normal 17 year old son smoked a lot of marijuana two years ago this December. Somehow it triggered a psychotic state in him. A few days later I took him to a psychiatric hospital and the doctors gave him zyprexa. He became very groggy and felt very hopeless. Two weeks later he took his own life. | The zyprexa at no time seemed to help my son feel any better or think any clearer. It made him feel very tired and low energy, which in turn increased his feelings of wanting to commit suicide. | F | 58 | 2 weeks | 12/16/2008 | 4 | Mood Disorder | Increased Hunger | My daughter was put on Zyprexa after trying 15 other medications. She has a Mood Disorder, ADHD, ODD and FASD. Initial response was AWESOME. Totally different child. After about 5 days, the old behavior began to resurface. It's not as bad as it was before, but still difficult. Dr. has added 1/4 ml Haldol twice daily. She'll take for the first time tonight. Hopefully it will help! | F | 5 | 1 weeks | 11/19/2008 |