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 | severe stutter | Weight gain, general depression, increased sleep time, hard getting up in the morning, and a general lack of interest in anything | Zyprexa really seems to reduce my stutter - that is great. To finally be able to hold a normal conversation without a severe stutter was undescribably envigorating after a lifetime of either avoiding speaking situations or going through the torture of trying to convey what is so clear in my mind but nearly impossible to get out of my mouth. I am now looking for the right dosage that will maximize the beneficial effect while minimizing the side effects. I find that adding other medications (i.e. the anti-depressant Celexa or the ADHD medication Ritalin) to my daily medication 'cocktail' helps reduce some of the side effects. | M | 38 | 2.5 years | 11/11/2004 | 3 | severe schizoaffective | horrendous weight gain 40 lbs. then lost thirty , then thirty more. Sedation - slept 16 hours | became diabetic | M | 31 | 4 years | 10/23/2004 | 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 | 3 | anxiety | substantial weight gain | M | 33 | 9 months | 10/19/2008 | 3 | drpression | M | 34 | 1 years | 9/19/2003 | 3 | Schizoaffective Disorder | Serious weight gain, drowsiness, and slight hand tremor | M | 24 | 5 months | 6/26/2002 | 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27 months | 9/5/2007 | 3 | Depression/anxiety/psychosis | Side effects - weight gain (30 lbs)bigger appetite , Socially withdrawn, Muscle twitching, Excessive sleep! | After reading some of the helpful comments on this site, i`ve decided to start weaning my self of zyprexa. i`ve been on 7.5mg and now moved down to 5mg but have been suffering with fast heart rate, uncontrolable twitching, restless legs and the feeling like i`m going to die! is this a normal withdrawl? how long will this last for? can any body give me some advice on how to wean my self off this horrible drug! | M | 26 | 5 months | 5/26/2007 | 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 | 3 | Schizoaffective disorder | EXTREME weight gain - 85 lbs in three months without any success in shedding the weight. Sexual dysfunction. Dry mouth. | I would not wish this drug on my worst enemy. Sure, it does a really good job of controlling psychotic symptoms, but there's better ways than this, ways without these extremes in side effects. | M | 30 | 2 years | 11/24/2007 | 3 | anxiety/depersonalization | at 2.5 mg/day: blunted emotions, blunted and slowed mental processes, some mild apathy/loss of interest in things, mild anhedonia, definite loss of alertness and "pep" | not a bad medication, I guess, but I've found B-vitamins and other supplements work better for my condition, and don't have any unwanted side effects...so bye bye zyprexa... | M | 33 | 2 months | 3/2/2008 | 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 | 3 | Anxiety/MDD | In short, this drug does its job. I was pretty wigged out for awhile, went on zyprex and things started to turn around. However, you must eat healthy and be good to your body while on this med. Yes, it causes weight gain (I went from 147-180). You will feel tired much of the time with difficulty waking up in the morning (if taken at bedtime). Daily productivity will go down as well. | Take it if you absolutely need too! | M | 24 | 8 months | 6/7/2008 | 3 | Anxiety/Depression/Bipolar | It helped me but it made irritable, gave me an apathy feeling towards things and made me incredibly weak. Sometimes I couldn't get out of bed. | M | 27 | 1 months | 12/1/2009 | 3 | Psychosis from Marijuana Withdrawal | This drug significantly impaired my cognitive functions and caused me to gain 50 pounds in 5 months. It has turned me into a dumb, bland person, causing me to have social anxiety. At 15 mgs I had serious problems interacting with people as I could not concentrate or comprehend what they were saying. I also experienced unusual thoughts which I could not control. I sleep 12 hrs a night. | I don't recommend the use of zyprexa unless you would rather have the symptoms I mentioned than the ones your trying to correct. | M | 20 | 6 months | 1/20/2010 | 3 | schizophrenia | weight gain(20lbs),drowsiness,hyperprolactinemia | I've been taking 2.5mg at night. I guess this drug does its job | M | 19 | 1 years | 1/21/2010 | 3 | Psychosis listening hallucination | I feel very sleepy in the morning. Sleep for 12-14 hours per day. I am working as an engineer so in the morning i have to push myself to act alert. I feel dry mouth in the morning. Weight is under control. I can not stop the medicine as doctor warned of repeat episode. | Medicine is very good. I wish there was some solution of getting up early. | M | 44 | 5 years 10mg 1X day | 1/21/2014 | 3 | Schizophrenia | Slight weight gain, huge loss of interest in sex, erectile dysfunction, sedation, clouded thinking and judgement | M | 30 | 3 years 15 MG | 12/23/2013 | 3 | Bi-Polarity & Borderline PD | Obesity, minor facial ticks, devoid of emotion or desire or most feelings. Overall, just rehearsing old normal behaviours without the emotional investment. Going through the motions, so to speak. | Olanzapine is probably the best Psychiatry has to offer the extremely ill. It's a Purgatorial drug, no question, but it stops self-harm and harming others so long as it works on you, the individual. Some individuals are immune to all medications, so don't forget that Psychiatry is not mathematics. If they say they don't know, then they're being honest. That is science. At the end of the day, it comes down to this: do you want a certain quality of life with as little suffering as possible, despite the fact you will die earlier than most? Or, would you like to suffer intolerably until you're 75 years-of-age, so long as you don't stick your head in an oven beforehand? It is a lesser of two evils drug. PS: I chose the former for 8-years, chose the latter for 6-months, but now am wearing the consequences of it. Can I live with it? Who knows? Can I live without it? Who knows? But I think the inevitable will happen, and I'll forever futilely fight the reason they put me on that shit in the first-place. Welcome to the real world! Life's a bitch, and as the great Philip Roth stated: 'You have to hand it to life for the sheer amount of tools it has its disposal to bring a man down'. All the best. | M | 45 | 8 years 10mg night | 9/16/2015 | 3 | anxiety depression | Tired throughout day hard to wake up get going sexual dysfunction irregular heartbeats slight weight gain and food craveings dry mouth | Took it for awhile worked then effects wore off thought it was ok few side effects | M | 23 | 7 months 5mg | 5/20/2015 |