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| 1 | schizobsessive disorder | 50 lb. weight gain, exacerbation of my psychiatric condition, severe increase in blood pressure, increase in blood sugar levels | since discontinuing my zyprexa treatment, my weight has steadily decreased and my psychiatric condition has improved tremendously | M | 49 | 3 years | 10/27/2007 | 1 | anxiety,depression | tinitus (ringng in ears)weight gain,sleep paralisis,muscle spasms,insomnia,apnea,blood pressure up an down,no sex drive, scyzoprenic episodes,stomach pains,eyes go in and out of focus, breathing problems,headaches,light sesitivity,back pain,neck stiffness and pain,tremors,loss of emotion,no sex drive,erectile dysfunction,some loss of taste,some taste perversion,unusual dreams (not nice),sleep paralisis (horrible) constipation,irratable bowel syndrom,urinary distubances, paranoid episodes,social avoidence,memory problems,episodes of raceing heart beat,painfull eyes,dental pain,photo sesitivity, tobacco misuse,feelings of hopelessness,feelings of despair,and more... | I have far more problems now than I started with. I took it for three months and stopped ,its horrible. Its now six months on and I have all the side effects still. However I learnt TIBETAN MEDITATION and cured all my emotional problems in one,it took me six weeks to learn.reccomend it for all.My friend recently died of zyprexa, El Lilly are murderers in my view ,the drug is lethal...DO NOT TAKE IT... I am seeking legal help.Mostly to stop them killing others. | M | 49 | 3 months | 2/25/2008 | 1 | anger | At first, none. Felt terrific.after about 6 months,loss of libido, motivation,lethargy, waking up in the morning to go to work, and lack of focus and concentration.Finally, extreme depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts. | I was having problems controlling my anger due to matters at work.I was told to get help by my boss. at my first session,, i was given samples and told it was non habit forming and i could quit anytime with no side effects.I started at 5 mil and went to 15.When problems began surfacing, i cut back 5.thats when the extreme depression hit.I did have a problem with anger, but i never felt depressed. the Drs. wanted me to increase the dosage and i refused. So they threw in more medications in an attempt to control the side effects.The ones they swear were not caused by Zyprexa. When they mixed it with effexor, thats when it really got bad. I stopped the effexor, but didnt improve much and progressivley got worse.I tried to quit 3 times and couldnt do it and work too.I had to take 2 months on dissability just to detox cause i quit cold turkey and spent a month in bed.According to my Drs., everything i was experiancing was all brought on by me.That i was obsessing and that i hated my job. I always liked my job.Its tough work but you stay in shape. I work for the phone co and climb alot of poles.But the zyprexa completely changed my whole outlook on life.It was like being gutted of all the emotions that mattered to you, and left with nothing but depression, fear, and anxiety. Its been almost 2 years since i quit the zyprexa. alot of me has returned. alot hasnt. If someone has words of hope, feel free to e mail me.I just want to be ME again. | M | 49 | 15 months | 6/18/2009 | 1 | Depression | Worked for about three weeks, then BOOM, I don't know what happened. Back in the dumps bigtime. It's been three weeks off it and I hope the symptoms subside. Suicidal thoughts and very bleak moods. I'm trying Buspar and have to take some antianxiety meds for now, I hope I can quit them eventually. | M | 49 | 3 days | 9/22/2005 | 1 | PTSD | WORTHLESS DANGEROUS DRUG THAT GAVE ME DIABETES | Did you know that Lilly made nearly $3 billion last year on diabetic meds, Actos,Humulin and Byetta? Yes! They sell a drug that can cause diabetes and then turn a profit on the drugs that treat the condition that they may have caused in the first place! I was prescribed Zyprexa from 1996 until 2000. In early 2000 i was shocked to have an A1C test result of 13.9 (normal is 4-6) I have no history of diabetes in my family. All the psychiatrist I've interviewed and the information on line presents zyprexa as a worse offender than the other Atypicals such as seroquel.My doctor has stopped prescribing zyprexa altogether. The PDR classifies zyprexa as 'severe' for causing weight gain and diabetes and seroquel as 'moderate'. Of course the 50 year old Thorazine didn't cause diabetes and is many times cheaper but it could cause tardive dyskinesia. Where Eli Lilly's negligence comes in,is their KNOWING and not informing consumers (black box warning) until the FDA demanded i | M | 49 | 60 months | 8/1/2006 | 1 | Bipolar II and insomnia | Can you spell H-e-l-l? First off, it turns out bipolar ii was a misdiagnosis; I have GAD and depression. Anyway, I was placed on a giant dose of 20 mg which caused muscle rigidity, tremors, and short term memory loss; it became harder and harder to use my hands/mouth and even to think. My symptoms were so severe I was admitted to the emergency room and spent 24 hrs in hospital being detoxed! | This stuff is POISON! It should be taken off the market and certainly not prescribed for anyone who might not be bipolar or psychotic. Read the label of all the potential side effects and diseases this toxic crap can cause. The treatment is worse than the disease, at least for me. | F | 49 | 5 days | 10/25/2008 | 1 | postictal psychosis, psychosis NOS, | Induced or magnified Paranoia, anxiousness, horrifying dreams of suicide, muscle rigidity, heart palpitation | I was diagnosed with bipolar at the age of 49 and attempted suicide after 2 weeks of using zyprexa. | F | 49 | 2 weeks | 9/5/2005 | 1 | Bipolar II disorder | I gained 10 pounds in two weeks even though I was eating a healthy low carb diet and exercising. I was extremely hungry all the time. In addition I developed Tardive dyskinesia which began as an annoying facial tic, and then spread to larger muscles causing what looked like mild Tourettes syndrome. It provided absolutely no benefit in managing my moods. | Tardive dyskinesia can become permanent and persist after discontinuing the offending drug. I was fortunate, the facial tic and other tics stopped as soon as I stopped the Zyprexa. I will never take another atypical anti psychotic drug. | F | 49 | 28 weeks 2.5 - 5mg 1X day | 11/29/2010 | 5 | schizo-affective disorder | Weight gain. | I've taken Zyprexa for about 11 years. I am physically active, eat fruits and vegetables quite frequently, avoid fast foods, avoid processed foods, drink plenty of fluids, eat sugar rarely, don't drink alcohol, and I don't smoke. At least once per year I get a blood test and everything is normal. Also, I am in my 40s and not overweight nor under weight. Personally, I am very grateful for this particular medication | M | 48 | 11 years 10mg 1X day | 7/1/2011 | 5 | Bipolar #1 | Dry Mouth - Morning Sleepiness - Weight Gain | Let me tell you it has a wonderful calming affect. I am taking the Symbyax drug which you may know as Zyprexa mixed with Prozac. It is a 12/50 combination. YES I have had the weight gain and NO I don't like that but this drug saved me from horrible symtoms and other drug reactions and just helped me find the peace I needed. I honestly do not think I can keep taking this long as I have gained almost 20 Lbs. in a month. So I am hoping that this levels off or I will have to dump one pleasant medication. | M | 48 | 1 months | 7/13/2007 | 4 | depression/anxiety/bi-polar | The only side effect was wt. gain. but that stops after a few months, and you no longer gain. I get awful if I try to stop taking it. It has helped me alot | F | 48 | 2 years | 5/1/2007 | 2 | chronic schizophrenia | Weight gain from 93lbs to 185lbs in a few months. Slept 16 hrs a day. 24x7 ravenous rapacious hunger that never quit, and I ate lots of junk I would never normally eat. Was hungry even after just eating a large meal. I was a humongous zombie on Zyprexa. Also high blood pressure (180/110), high cholesterol (244) and continuing slow rise of blood sugar. | I HATE IT. It is the only medication that will control my schizophrenia symptoms, granted. That's why I continue to take it. But I go off and on and experiment with the dose constantly to try to outsmart the side effects, but it never works. Also horrid withdrawal symptoms unless titrated downward very slowly. | F | 48 | 9 years | 4/25/2007 | 2 | For depression and bipolar features | Feel like a zombie, detached with lack of emotion. This med did help me out of a deep depression several years ago but I can't tolerate it this time. I am an emotionless, fatigued, useless lump. This is no way to live life! I am stopping this tonight. | While it will get rid of depressed feelings it may also leave you without any feelings at all. I do not recommend! | F | 48 | 10 days 5mg 1X day | 5/9/2015 | 1 | stress,insomnia | beyond extreme, continuing tinnitus/feeling of hot liquid in forehead | this ruined any possibility of survival by causing extreme whistling in my ears to worsen my already catastrophic insomnia and stress | M | 48 | 1 days 2.5 1X day | 11/22/2014 | 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 | 1 | bipolar | WARNING & ADVICE: Don't stop your meds suddenly or unilaterally: plan one mood stabilizer with a suitable med for acute episodes.No need to be taking anti-psychotics unless you're psychotic. Initially amazing medication stopped my mania in an hour.What med can do that & have no brain side-effects? Then weight gain- 20lb in 2 months; brain altered metabolism.Then neck Dystonia then Procyclidine to treat the Dystonia.(Lamotrigine/Lamictal introduced to replace Lithium because I suspected Dyskinesia, my oesophagus became paralysed overnight. I have not eaten solids for a year now. I have diagnoses of Tardive Dyskinesia, Tardive Dystonia, Chorea, Dysphagia, oesophageal dysmotility, amenorrhea, GERD, haemorroids from constipating artificial nutrition & I will probably die within 6 months because my breathing & heart are affected too. Swallowing liquids is awful. Doctors spent a year playing for time when the cause was obvious to everyone. There is nothing anyone can do now | Prescribed ONLY 2.5mg for hypomania/mania on an 'as & when' basis ONLY for 6 months; ONLY 5 mg for 2 days caused Cervical Dystonia 'treated' by Procyclidine. It never went away. Was also taking Lithium 600-800mg tapering at the same time as titrating Lamotrigine for <1 wk in total. Side effects from each are unclear; the catastrophe is from the cocktail which precludes a court action because of unclear cause of each symptom. | F | 48 | 6 months 2.5-5 MG 1X day | 6/20/2011 | 3 | Bipolar II | None except weight gain. I am hungry all the time. | This drug has helped me a great deal. I am calmer, less impulsive and much more rational. Unfortunately, weight gain has been substantial. | M | 47 | 2 years | 8/29/2004 | 2 | bipolar spectrum | ALways craving sweets. Weight gain. The first month I felt great, it made me hypomanic. Embarked on all kinds of crazy projects and spent $1000 on clothes I didn't need. After long depression this felt good. The second month Had very severe hypoglycemic symptoms and started fighting with people in the street. Withdrew cold turkey, caused major panic attacks, had to go back on to withdraw slowly. Completed one month ago but I am still not okay. The hypoglycemis is still so severe I almost had to be hospitalized the other day, blacking out in the street. I am sure it is the Zyprexa because it uses the glucose channels to transport itself and it obviously does something very nasty to them which continues after you withdraw. | There were also neurological effects on Zyprexa. I would be talking and forget the word, I would confuse words, slips of the tongue, involuntary hand movements, dropping things. But Zyprexa had very strong anti-anxiety properties which started fifteen minutes after I took it, and for two months, whatever else I experienced I had no anxiety. And the antidepressant effects were also excellent,they kicked in after a couple of days and I felt great until I got hypoglycemic, but in retrospect the hypomanic aspect of the first month really wasn't worth it. Actually Zyprexa is a poison and no one with blood sugar problems or a history of such in the family should ever ever consider taking it. | F | 47 | 2 months | 5/27/2007 | 1 | psychiatrists NOT DOCTORS - BEWARE | high blood pressure - high triglycerides(over 1300 !) - high bad cholesterol - low good cholesterol -severe weight gain ( uncontrollable hunger ) - developed Diabetes type II - low potassium - high blood calcium levels - shall I go on? | PURE POISON. I know you hear people saying this about many drugs but I am living proof of what this drug can do to you. I am now on ( let me count the medications right now ) 11, yes ELEVEN medications that I have to take everyday and some of them twice a day and some four times a day just to maintain my body to an *almost* near state of normality because of what zyprexa has done to me. I took it six months at varying dosages according to whatever mood the stupid ignorant idiotic clueless wanna-be-doctor thought I needed at the time. Well, I am hoping and praying that i can get my body back to the state it was ( very healthy ) before i started taking this POISON. STOP TAKING IT NOW or you WILL regret it. This medicine also keeps you in a state of not caring and it covers up symptoms of REAL medical problems that it causes by keeping you sedated and not caring. All of these side effects surfaced when my blood pressure was slowly but surely creeping up in exact proportion to the months i had been taking the zyprexa. I went to the my REAL doctor about my blood pressure and complaining of various other issues and they did some lab work. The lab work that came back was a total chaotic MESS. My life was/has been altered. I was not diabetic before zyprexa, matter of fact I was thoroughly tested for diabetes exactly one month before I started taking zyprexa. NO family history of diabetes and I wasn't over weight until the zyprex. | M | 47 | 6 months | 7/18/2009 | 1 | was feeling extremely hostile | My psychiatrist's nurse assured me when I asked about weight gain on Zyprexa, "it's such a small dose, so you shouldn't have a problem." Well, in just these two weeks, my weight has ballooned, abdomen sticks out, I am constipated, bloated, thirsty, miserable. Jeans that are normally loose are TIGHT. I cut back on food. NO change. While I feel better, the stressful situation that led to this "drug" had already begun to abate. Yes I crave frosted flakes...2 bowls (1% milk) right after eating 1/2 of a digiorno pizza, but that was both lunch and dinner and didn't do that all the time. Gonna call the nurse TOMORROW and tell her I want off this med...even if it means going back on seroquel. I won't live like this. I think 2 weeks and tight jeans is plenty of time to ser how well a med is working--- or NOT for me. Plus I am supposed to be around post-menopausal...hard enough to lose weight. I don't need the problems from Zyprexa too. | F | 47 | 2 weeks 2.5 mg | 8/4/2014 |