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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ZYPREXA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 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 | depression and anxiety | weight gain, memory loss, extreme sedation. | Could not stop eating on this drug. I would binge on whatever I could get my hands on almost every single night. At the time I didn't think my binging was because of the zyprexa but as soon as I stopped taking it my desire for food drastically dropped. I gained 25 lbs. on this med... very suprised I didnt gain more. If you are afraid of gaining weight DO NOT take this medication because you will. It was easy to get off. I don't feel any different off of this worthless medication. | M | 22 | 7 months | 4/28/2008 | 1 | depression , anxiety disorder | i feel WEAK , every muscle , every articulation is in pain . I'm 22 yet i feel like i'm in the body of an 88 years old man ... | M | 22 | 4 months 2.5 1X day | 4/29/2015 | 1 | Tourette's Syndrome or TS | Decreased focus, extreme anger (as if my TS wasn't bad enough), increased appetite, lethargic tendencies, weight gain, drowsiness, sleeping too much, among others. | Okay... I just want to say that I took this drug, as prescribed by my Doctor in like 7th or 8th grade... I am now 22 nearing 23 years old and I think I am STILL having side effects from it. PLEASE DO NOT TAKE THIS MEDICATION - Only those that have a GENUINE PROBLEM that is MEANT TO BE TREATED BY THIS MEDICATION WILL TELL YOU THAT THIS DRUG WORKS - For those of us that have been Guinea Pigged... its nothing but strong Rat Poison. I suffered through that med for a while before my mother forced me to stop taking it... as she noticed at the time that my (later to be diagnosed) TS symptoms got WORSE. PLEASE DO NOT TAKE THIS MED IF YOU DO NOT HAVE Bipolar Disorder or are NOT A Schizophrenic!! | M | 22 | 10 months | 12/26/2009 | 1 | schizophrenia | Extreme Weight gain,obssessive craving for sweets , 24H sedation and fatigue, apathic. exessive sleep, 13, 14hours. severe absence of social skills , moderate absence of conversation, dialogue skills | It helped to control the voices and delusions but due to the severity of the side effects caused me great deacrease of quality of life.. | M | 22 | 2 years | 6/24/2008 | 1 | Derealization,Severe Depression | Severe Weight Gain (Went from 142 to 202 in 9 months) Extremely Tired,Zombie like state of mind. Increased appetite, Crave JUNK food, Eat ALL the time, VERY sedative. | I take symbyax aka zyprexa or olazapine because i had a re-action to an antibiotic called amoxil/augmentin. I was prescribe symbyax 12mg for 4 months and then 5mg sybyax for 3 months, and now 3mg zyprexa for 2 months. This pill is POISON! It is VERY hard to come off of. Im currently trying to stop this pill for the 5/8 time. My withdrawal side effects from Before were; Nausea,headache,insomnia. NOW my withdrawal sideffects are only insomnia. If anyone has ANY suggestions on coming off of this med PLEASE email me your suggestions! My e-mail is; [email protected] I already know weining off of the med but that isnt helping. So i plan to try cold turkey again. I DO NOT suggest this pill to anyone! I no longer suffer from de-realization and thus there is no reason for me to continue taking this med. All it will do is turn you into a fat zombie! | M | 22 | 9 months | 8/12/2008 | 1 | anxiety, depression | i'm really confused, feel disoriented | could only make it 3 nights of taking it | M | 22 | 3 days | 5/7/2009 | 1 | Bipolar Type 2 | Feeling like a zombie, always tired, forgetfullness, | F | 22 | 3 months | 11/16/2003 | 1 | confused doctor | I was hallucinating more while on the pills than when I took myself off. | M | 22 | 2 years 10 1X day | 12/11/2012 | 1 | bipolar 1, mania / lack of sleep | I would not recommend Zyprexa to anyone. It had me sleeping 12 + and I gained a lot of weight (which is basically why I dropped the med). This drug doesn't just add some pounds to your butt. It also makes you incapable of working, I'd say. At least, it did so to me. I couldn't concentrate while being on this drug. Don't take it. | F | 22 | 2 months 10 mg 1X day | 3/30/2011 | 1 | Insomnia | I took this sh*t because i was having a hard time with my life because i have both autism and adhd but the doctor totally misdiagnosed me and i was so desperate to sleep and eat so i took this medication it did made me sleep and eat for some days but then i had the worst joint pain (jaw,hand,legs,neck) all my body hurts me and im surprised because i took it only for 5 days!! Its been 2 months and i still have all the awful symptoms somedays i even thought i had Parkinson's because the symptoms i have are the same i don't know what to do .. also it affected my eyes and movement and i have weird chest pain | F | 22 | 5 days 5mg 1X day | 3/18/2022 | 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 | 4 | bipolar/weight gain | increased appetite | the only thing i can think of is that it extremly increases my appetite after one hour of taking it..im wishing to gain weight on this drug and i hope im one of those who gain 30+ lbs on it..:D | M | 21 | 4 weeks | 1/3/2008 | 3 | psychosis | weight gain-forgetfulnes-not as alert-tired | with all of zyprexa's side effects...........I would rather have them(side effects) and not have psychotic episodes which Zyprexa helps.. than not take Zyprexa-and have no side effects but have episodes.........to me it is more important to be in sane state | F | 21 | 5 years | 1/31/2008 | 3 | Bipolar | RAPID weight gain, increased appetite, night sweats, fatigue, dry mouth, intense dehydration, decreased sex drive | I started this because my best friend was on it before and he said it was a miracle drug. Honestly, it's helped with my mood a lot, and I've been able to keep a job for once. But the weight gain is a serious issue. I'm a 21 year old fashion student and I was a size 24/25 in jeans and now I can't even fit into any of my jeans I'm bursting out of them. All I do is think about eating and my portions have never been bigger. I crave things I normally would never eat like chocolate and junk food and ice cream. I can eat 3 bowls of cereal at one sitting and still want more. I have a gut and I've taken weight loss pills to try to burn the fat as well as working out but my weight went from 108 to 128. Very depressed about that. I also have no desire to have sex with my boyfriend anymore which is ruining our relationship. It helps so far with my mood and mellows me out but everything else in my life sucks. | F | 21 | 3 months 2.4 | 12/7/2014 | 2 | psychotic depression | extreme fatigue during the day even if i took it at night, craving nothing but fattening sweets | I was so sleepy during the day that I would sit down somewhere and immediately fall asleep with my mouth open and drool all over myself. Seroquel is better for helping me sleep; it doesn't cause that daytime drowsiness. | F | 21 | 2 months | 12/10/2003 | 1 | Bipolar disorder | Weight gain weight gain weight gain. This drug is not worth it!!! See if you can get on lamictal and topamax first!! I gained 30 + pounds and am working like hell to get off. After talking w my psyc he said I didn't need to be on it. Really? So all this for nothing. Horrible drug. Find another. | F | 21 | 4 months 5m | 7/13/2012 | 1 | manic bipolar episodes | Gained 50 pounds with in the first 2 months. I only had the urge to eat and sleep I felt like an animal. I couldn't wake up in the morning no matter how hard I tried. I would not recommend this medicine to anyone. I am also having issues with getting pregnant and its a good possibility that its because of the medicine. | F | 21 | 6 months | 1/17/2012 | 1 | Diagnosed paranoid schizophrenia. | I was on a this medicine called Zyprexa about 2 years ago. It caused me to have urinary retention, kidney pains, and a stay at my local somatic-hospital because of my urinary retention. I couldnt pee for several hours, causing me to have 1,3 liters in my bladder. If they waited 5 more minutes with cathetrizing me, the urine would of gone back to my kidneys and I would get a lethal-poisonous attack. The urine would of gone directly in my blood. I was 5 minutes close to death, to put it another way. I werent able to pee normally for months and I had a catheter all the time. Good luck to those who chose to eat this medicine, or even any of the so-called "second generation" anti-psychotics used in today's psychiatry. | The worst medicine I have ever taken EVER. | M | 21 | 2 months | 9/15/2008 | 1 | because i was to well | Every bad one, Put on 15kg in a week, demotivated me to do exercise dropped out of my Human Movement course turned me into a retard VFL footballer. | HATED IT: Ruined everything about me i didnt know what was going on. I dispise my doctor and parents for making me continue to take it | M | 21 | 3 weeks | 9/28/2007 |