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 disorder (type I) | I lost a part of me due to the disease and still another part due to Zyprexa. | At least I am "acceptable" to my family. It helped a lot in calming them down after the enormous stress of the mental illness of their son and brother. The negative side is that I feel like being deprived of my life. | M | 30 | 27 months | 9/5/2007 | 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 | 5 | bipolar mania | sedation, dry mouth | This is awesome as a short-term drug for mania. It made me feel normal FAST. It is sedating, which I did not like since it really made me feel like I was dragging. It was hard to get out of bed in the morning. I definitely would not want to take it long-term because the sedation kind of sucked. But I'd rather feel tired and slow than feel manic and paranoid. For what it was prescribed for (to short-circuit a manic episode), it was amazing, so I am still giving it a 5 despite my mixed feelings about it. By the way, I did not gain any weight at all. I was taking 15mg. | F | 28 | 10 weeks | 9/1/2007 | 3 | bipolar disorder | I've always been on the lean side-5'11,160ish. plumped up to 200+ within a few months, hungry and crave fatty foods a lot | I guess it did help with the crazy thoughts and impulsiveness but hate the side effects | M | 38 | 1 years | 8/30/2007 | 5 | Borderine Personality Disorder | I have an excuse to eat lollies now :) as yet nothing worth mentioning, but haven't been on it for very long | Zyprexa is a life saver. I was at the end of my tether the first time I took it, and almost instantly I started feeling better. Zyprexa stops the paranoia. Without it, I see my ex-husband's face and hear his voice when talking to my boyfriend. When telemarketers call I think it is the government spying on me. I have panic attacks, I flip out... But on Zyprexa I don't have any symptoms. My anger goes away, I can study, and I think I will soon be able to start working again. I can cope with life when I am on Zyprexa. Ive been taking epilim as a mood stabiliser and Lovan and they were both just not working for me. I realise that Zyprexa isn't for everyone, but it has been an absolute life saver for me. | F | 21 | 3 weeks | 8/28/2007 | 1 | mis-diagnosed heat stroke | Diabetes, rapid weight gain, incontinance, rapid tooth loss and once diagnosed, vision problems and depression resulting from the diabetes and etc.. | The county mental health administered this drug without a complete work up. It's benefits are for "shizophrenia and bi-polar" which I have never been diagnosed with. This agency along with Eli Lily are to blame for my contracting diabetes and the resulting physical problems and depression. | F | 54 | 35 days | 8/26/2007 | 1 | bipolar II (misdiagnosis?) | No energy. Lost all creativity and desire to do anything except sleep. My personality disappeared. Unable to get out of bed in the morning. Simple tasks seemed daunting; I began to dread everything. I was prescribed Lexapro for the depression that Zyprexa caused (I wasn't depressed before). I became a real psych drug soup that was not working. | I have stopped taking zyprexa (and lexapro) and am experiencing debilitating nausea and loss of appetite. But my mood has improved substantially, my personality is starting to return, and the bipolar symptoms/depression have not reappeared. | M | 36 | 4 months | 8/23/2007 | 1 | BIPOLAR | PANIC ATTACKS, WEIGHT GAIN, OBSESIVE BEHAVIOR, MAJOR DEPRESSION. | NOT FOR ME | F | 35 | 5 years | 8/22/2007 | 4 | Depression, Anxiety, Mood Stabilize | Mixed Blessings. For one- go slow. It has affected me differently at different times (headache/stomachache). When I took full dose- severe shaking, so COMMON SENSE tells you to cut back dose. | I can't say this has cured all my ailments, and I know it's not the safest drug to take- but I don't believe there is one out there yet. I will say, that since 2004, I've taken it off and on- and it always worked. I don't fancy this, but I have no choice at times. When my emotional problems get too bad, and I relapse- and it affects me physically too, I'm dead anyways, and so are the people around me I live with, so why fear taking something that just may help? For those of you that don't need the weight gain- there are ALL KINDS of meds in this class that could be better suited for you. For some of us, like myself, stress causes weight lose- and that's just as dangerous. It's my sincere hope science greatley improves medications, but for now we are stuck with what's available- we can take it and try to get our lives back, or do nothing and exist instead of living- if that's what you want to call it. | F | 30 | 3 years | 8/19/2007 | 1 | Bipolar | sleeeeeepy, in a daze, in a zone, cannot wake up~my doctor said it had a 10 percent chance of weight gain, after reading about it, it seems everyone has gained weight on it. | I have been on every manic subsiding drug, i have only taken this for 2 days, but I am done with it already. I cannot stop sleeping, I slept a total of 28 hours in one sitting. | F | 30 | 2 days | 8/19/2007 | 1 | Bipolar Disorder | Absoulutley do not use this drug. It can kill you. After I took this pill my head felt like it was being hit with a hammer relentlessly, I kept trying to sleep it off...as a matter of fact all, I ever did was sleep and eat which caused me to outgrow all of my clothes at a time when I did'nt have the ability to buy my own clothes to adjust to the weight gain. I gained an incredible amount of weight, no matter how much I ate, and never wanted to do anything but sleep. The doctor I had would'nt listen to my complaints about these side effects, particularly the sleep paralalysis that many here neglect to mention, instead he would only increase the dosage when I complained making me a completely overweight zombie. The weight gain only contributed heavily to my depression and made me even more prone to sleep all day... The doctors put me on such an amount of medicine that I became mentally disabled from all of the effects to which they recommended social security...I applied for it and did'n | These pills are for recommended only for the extreemly serious mentally disturbed like psycopathic serial killers or the worst of the worst in society...Everone else should stay away from this drug. | M | 28 | 1 years | 8/18/2007 | 4 | Bipolar 2 , P.T.S.D | Slurring speech, tremors, weight game of 60 pounds, crave any sweets I can get ahold of, lack of consintration, no zest for life, suicide thoughts. | F | 49 | 2 years | 8/17/2007 | 5 | Mania | None | Great drug! No side effects. Pulled me out of mania within 2 days. What a miracle. I will be ending this med after 30 days | F | 41 | 21 days | 8/13/2007 | 1 | husband has bi-polar type 2 | Takes med at night. Sleeps all the time! Comes home from work and takes a 3 hour nap, gets up, showers, goes back to bed. Next day constantly sits down and falls asleep. Also very crabby the next day until afternoon. Luckily we are business owners and the business has not suffered from this. Leg twitches at night. No drive or creativity. No sexual drive. Used to exercise all the time, now never. Weight gain. Did I say crabby??? The medicine did bring my husband's feet "back to ground", but that gain is not worth all the problems. | I am very thankful I found this site. I did a google on zyprexa side effects and found you all. Reading all your comments and side effects sure made a light go on. Read a portion to my husband during lunch today and he immediately called psych doctor to start weaning off of it. He already has very bad diagnosed hypoglycemia....we certainly don't need anything to mess with his blood sugar. Because of all these side effects, we put our business up for sale, which was a huge mistake. We had an agreement with a buyer within a week, along with 2 back up offers. We were priced too low, but my husband had no desire or drive to continue the business. We are selling just because of the lethargy. We have 25 employees and pains me to think of how this will affect them. I don't know that the new owner will treat them like family.... they are all family to us. Will the new owner provide medical, dental and vision insurance to them cost free? Probably not. New owner has absolutely no knowled | 50 | 9 months | 8/13/2007 | 3 | bi polar, anxiety, insomnia | At first I loved this drug because I was able to sleep. However after I had a seven day long panic attack, during which I tried taking Zyprexa to help overcome it, I was left unaffected. I was hospitalized and my dosage was increased from 5mg-10mg "As Needed for Sleep" to 20mg every night. I experienced sudden weight gain and as of yesterday stopped taking it altogether. | Yes it helps you sleep. Yes it helps with MILD anxiety. Yes it helps you gain weight rapidly. I refuse to stay on a medication that makes me gain weight. I'd rather have insomnia. However I am hoping to speak to my doctor soon about getting on Topamax or something else instead. | F | 23 | 3 months | 8/4/2007 | 1 | schizophrenia | side effects-weight gain of 30lbs, decreased sex drive,need to sleep about 10 hrs a day withdrawal symptoms-I slowly tapered my dose from 2.5 to 1.8 to 1.25 to 0.625 taking three months at each dose. I had severe PMS at each lowering of the dosage, which eventually went away. I should have just stayed on the 0.625 dose. After two weeks of no zyprexa I had severe anxiety, panic attacks, breathing problems while falling asleep, insomnia. Eventhough I had no schizophrenia symptoms I had to go back on zyprexa since the withdrawal symptoms were so severe. I never had any of the withdrawal symptoms before taking Zyprexa. In order to get rid of the withdrawal symptoms I had to up my dose to 10mg. | Get on the lowest possible dose, but don't try to quit completely | F | 36 | 3 years | 8/1/2007 | 1 | schizophrenia type paranoid | gained 30 lbs in 30 days, extremely bad tremors, dyskinesia | I was taking this medication while living in an assisted living facility in Palatka, FL and the tremors were so bad that I was no longer able to feed myself or even get a cup of water to my face without getting completely soaked. I was taken to Shands Neurology and was told that if the tremors didn't subside after discontinuing the medications that it was possible that I had early onset parkinson's disease. To be fair I was later diagnosed with Essential Tremor Disorder, but never before or after this medication have my tremors been that severe. It was great for symptoms, but the side effects far outweighed the benefits of taking the medication. | M | 29 | 1 months | 7/23/2007 | 5 | schizoaffective | tiredness, need to sleep 10-12 hrs/day, restless leg syndrome, weight loss | BEST DRUG EVER! SAVED/CHANGED MY LIFE! since going on zyprexa i have been literally symptom free (no psychosis, no catatonia, no paranoia, no depression, no mania, etc). i have gone off disability, finished school, got a job. i now love life and i owe zyprexa everything! i was able to go off all my other meds. i lost weight. who cares if i need lots of sleep, it's worth it! | F | 24 | 3 years | 7/21/2007 | 4 | Bipolar- Manic | Started off at 10mg to calm me since I was so manic I hadn't slept in 4 days and it worked great. I had been through so many medications and this is the only one that can calm me. I recently went down to 5mg and it seems to be working great. | This medicine does make you feel tired and high for a couple of days but this wore off for me rather quickly. I no longer feel agitated and hyper like I always was. I have tried just about everything and am so glad I found this med, if you don't have insurance though it is very expensive. | F | 28 | 21 days | 7/20/2007 | 1 | bi-polar | Extreme weight gain. Contributed to my diabetes. Needed too much sleep | My doctor is weening me off Zyprexa. I was taking 10mg/night and now I'm down to 2.5 mg but my sleep was affected so I have to take Ambien to help. I'm wondering if the weight will drop off when I am completely off the Zyprexa. Anyone with this experience | F | 48 | 5 years | 7/20/2007 |