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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ZYPREXA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | depression/ocd | drowsiness, weight gain, weight gain, weight gain. | When I first started taking Zyprexa, I would go to bed and sleep for 14 hours at a time. I gained over 30 pounds in 3 months - which was horrible, but my doctor only recommended increasing the dosage. Seeing a therapist is what helped me, not the meds. | F | 34 | 9 months | 9/11/2005 | 1 | Bipolar Disorder | I kept eating and eating and sleeping and sleeping and sometimes I managed to do both at the same time. My Mum caught me making a sandwich in middle of the night ASLEEP!!! I felt like a zombie and both food and bed were my friends causing me to gain ahuge amount of weight. | When I was manic Zyprexa did calm me down but taking it as a mood stabilizer to prevent further episodes was a joke. I was well enought to go back to work but I could barely function at work, I actually fell asleep at a meeting once. Also driving was very difficult as i often would feel my eyes start to close...my life was worse on this drug NOT BETTER. I gained 50 pounds in 4 months and 2 years on I am struggling to lose that weight. I do feel it is effective in controlling severe manic episodes and is useful as a last resort when other drugs are not working....but that's it. There are other drugs that can do the same job without such gruesome side effects. I have since had another manic episode and Seroquel controlled my symptoms without turning me into foodaholic sleepaholic Zombie!!! | F | 28 | 4 months | 1/27/2006 | 1 | OCD thoughts | Worst drug ever! Withdrawl symptoms are still with me after only talking this for 2 weeks. It's been 4 weeks since I stopped. Medicine made me feel like a zombie. I had really bad dissociation from the med. I had extreme anxiety getting off of it..like bugs crawling on me, I can no longer nap with my kids during the day cause I am too wired and I have insomnia at night. I sleep for 4 hours and wake up every hour after that with my heart racing from anxiety. Don't not take it unless its your last option!! Withdrawl is bad! Do your research...worse than heroin they say!! | F | 36 | 2 weeks | 1/16/2013 | 1 | major depression | extreme somnolence (slept about 14-16 hours per day); difficulty concentrating/muddy thinking; gained abdominal weight of 30 lbs (more than 25% of my original weight); dry skin; increased glucose levels; high triglycerides; sweating, nausea and headaches; weird dreams and nightmares; arm and leg cramps about 4 hours after taking dose; when withdrawing from this medication slowly experienced severe withdrawal symptoms of racing thoughts, racing heart. This drug did not do anything to alleviate my depression - if anything it made it worse. | A year later after stopping this drug I cannot lose the abdominal weight and I have borderline high glucose and extremely high triglycerides; I still crave sweets and I am hungry all of the time and have just been diagnosed as pre-diabetic | F | 54 | 3 months 30 MG 1X day | 11/22/2011 | 1 | manic episodes of bipolar disorder | this medicine was awful. it changed my personality. I was boring and lazy like I was going through life on autopilot. I wanted to be and still want to be a personal trainer someday. I love working out and being proud of my body. when takingthis, I was too lazy and tired to do anything ever! I was eating nonstop and gained 15 pounds before I even realized. I became so unhappy with myself and who I'd transformed into. it probably would have changed my whole future if I hadn't told this to my doctor and she took me off of it. don't take this medicine. I lost all my cheerfulness and excitement. my friends even missed me if that makes sense. if I ever have even a day of mixed or mania I go in for an infusion and I am 100% better soon after!!!!! my doctor and I both STRONGLY support this change for me. | F | 17 | 8 months 20 MG | 11/27/2011 | 1 | Depression, Insomnia, Anxiety | Dizziness, Drowsiness, Weight Gain, Increased Appetite. | I haven't been on Zyprexa for long, but since I've been on it with Lustral, (Lexapro previous to that) I have felt terrible. I still continue to self harm, that hasn't change, I have more suicidal thoughts more often than I have before and I have gained 33 pounds in about 4 months of taking it. And have got an eating disorder because of the weight I've gained. I would not recommend someone going on this if you are very obsessed with your weight because It caused more problems for me, as it wasn't a that much of a problem before I went on it.I was at a healthy enough weight. It did help me sleep though, but that side effect has worn off and again I find it hard to sleep. And there is no way I'm going up another dose, I'm actually going to my doctor tomorrow to get off it. It makes me feel like shit. | F | 19 | 120 days 5mg 1X day | 10/25/2011 | 1 | Bipolar | Terrible drug. Would not recommend to anyone | F | 35 | 1 years 5 | 2/10/2012 | 1 | Manic episode | Horrible drug. Could have been ok to take for one day or one week but they had me on it for ten months. Within a week in hospital my clothes stopped fitting me. Constant cravings for sugar and caffiene, and complete lack of motivation and carelessless. Cut off from body. Rapid weight gain and lethargy. about 30 pounds heavier. Been off the drug about 4 months... Weight is not going down no matter how healthy I eat and exercise I do. No point in even trying to exercise on Zyprexa doesn't make a difference. EXTREME DROWSINESS, FELL ASLEEP BEHIND THE WHEEL OF MY CAR AND CRASHED. Very tired all the time, didn't want to get up in the morning and wanted to sleep in the middle of the day. Suicidal ideation, periods stopped for 6 months. Reduction in sex drive. | F | 24 | 10 months 20mg - 0mg | 1/15/2012 | 1 | Bipolar & Bulimia | Weight gain, Lethargy, High appetite, Incoherence, Memory loss. | Completely inhumane. I was just a living shell of a human while on this. I have one regret in my life and it's taking this medicine 12 years ago. I do not remember what mg I took or how many times a day. I was a zombie. I remember eating and sleeping. Became aware that I said something only after someone else responded. I went from 138 lbs to about 240 lbs in 6 months and no one gave me clothes to fit. I have PERMANENT lines around my belly from my pants. The abdominal weight has never come off...and my niece says I look like a tiger. Bulimia and bipolar tripled afterwards. THIS DRUG SHOULD BE TAKEN OFF THE MARKET AND THE MANUFACTURERS HELD LIABLE FOR DOING HARM TO PEOPLES MINDS AND BODIES. | F | 26 | 6 months 1X day | 1/20/2012 | 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 | 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 | Anxiety/depression/cycling | Nausea, vomiting, uncontrollable diarrhea. Lost about 20 pounds. Did not help me sleep. | F | 73 | 17 days ?? 1X day | 9/20/2012 | 1 | Bipolar 1 | Gained weight so much weight. Lethargic. No way to live life. Took about 5 weeks to get in my system. | Never should have stayed on it 2 years | F | 45 | 2 years 1X day | 6/14/2013 | 1 | bipolar - severe | My face swelled up, my scalp split open and my hair fell out. I had to wear a wig for 6 weeks while it grew back. Weight gain ++++ even in a month. | This is the worst anti psychotic I have ever been on and I've been on most. The side effects were horrendous. | F | 56 | 1 months 10mgs 1X day | 3/20/2012 | 1 | Phychosis | Memory problems, heart arithmiyas, irregular heart rate | F | 35 | 2 years 5 | 5/13/2012 | 1 | bi-polar and depression | Sleeping 12+ hours, major weight gain, no emotions, no motivation, NO sex drive, did not want to socialize. | This is a terrible drug! My doctor kept insisting that I needed to take it to keep my moods level, I finally took myself off of it. I've been off of it for a month an a half. Since then, I sleep normal hours, I have motivation, and I have my sex drive back. So far the only side effect of stopping the drug is that my right foot sweats! weird! I tried one other time to stop taking it and my left eye became droopy and I started taking it again. Thankfully I haven't had that problem this time. Please do your research, don't just trust your doctor. I feel so much better off this drug!! | F | 40 | 2 years 5 1X day | 3/9/2011 | 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 | Anxiety and depression | Weight gain (50 lbs), craved sweets, drowsiness, passed out in public twice, tardive dyskinesia | I took Zyprexa for four years and it wrecked my life. I gained 60 pounds, I went from a size 4 to a size 16. Before going on Zyprexa I took dance classes 6-8 days a week, and was in a dance troupe. After taking Zyprexa I was so drained of energy, I could barely get out of bed. So, I stopped pursuing my life long passion of dancing. I went from being one of the top employees in my division to a zombie, who couldn't string a sentence together. The drug made me so tired it affected my attendance at work. It didn't take long before I was fired. On top of that, many people in my company were gossiping about how fat and weird I had become. I also crashed my car three times while on this drug. I had to move in with my Mother, because my life was such a mess. Thank god for my Mother - because she finally saw what had happened to me. I stopped the Zyprexa. The withdrawals were horrible. For a good six months, I had severe mania, anxiety and insomnia. I threw up constantly. Those were just the physical withdrawal symptoms. It took a full two years before my cognitive abilities returned: my mental sharpness, sense of judgment, logic and reasoning. I also developed a mild form of tardive dyskinesia, which I still have. This all happened eight years ago, yes I lost the weight and I reclaimed my life. Doctors like to throw this drug and others like Abilify at people who are not bipolar or psychotic, but don't fall for that. Please, please think very carefully before taking this drug. | F | 46 | 4 years 2 mg 2X day | 9/21/2010 | 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 | 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 |