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 | Major depressive disorder, psychosi | Cons.. Weight gain Suicidal thinking Missed periods Forgetfulness Pros.. Increased mood Decrease in anger Increased motivation Decreased delusional thinking | Probably the only medication with notable positive effects aside from venlafaxine. Weight gain was killer..though the medication saved my life this past winter. | F | 25 | 3 months | 6/17/2016 | 3 | Bipolar | Weight gain, worked fantastic got on with my life, work, friends. Biggest I have ever been though. Put on about eight kilos. I'm already depressed so this just feels like a kick in the stomach when your down. Not sure how to get off of it | Don't take it, they're other alternatives | F | 24 | 3 months | 4/30/2008 | 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 | 2 | anxiety disorder | Weight gain, enormous appetite. | My Dr. shouldn't have given this junk to me. Clonazapam is much more effective for simple anxiety and angst. | M | 31 | 3 months | 10/15/2007 | 2 | Psychosis | Sedation, and need for excessive sleep | I almost overdosed on this because i would take a 15mg tablet and it would kick in and i would slow down but it wouldn't rid me of my volatile urges and my hallucinations so therefor i took more... its all i had and i couldn't afford a trip to the ER | M | 3 months | 11/4/2007 | 2 | Schizoaffective/ undefined mood dis | my 14 year old daughter is taking this drug. It has caused her to gain a major amount of weight (that she did not need due to seroquel). It also makes her have no energy and want to just sit like a lump all day. The other problem is that she is complaining about her eyes hurting. I have read the possible side effects and there are so many eye problems that can happen from this drug....I am looking for someone else that has had this side effect. My child is also developmentally disabled and has the mideset of a 5 year old. For this reason it is difficult to get accurate information from her. The doctors are shrugging this off...but I am looking to get her off it this horrible drug | She is taking Zyprexa for "spinning/racing thoughts" Even on 30mg (yes that was correct) it did not take those away. I, w/o doctor's auth just dropped her down to 20mg a day. I don't know what we are going to do next, but this drug is causing all sorts of new things. Including me needing to be the food police or she would eat herself sick. The cravings for sugar and carbs are out of control. I can't risk her getting diabetes from this drug! | F | 14 | 3 months | 5/6/2009 | 2 | bi-polar disorder | weight gain, 25lbs in 3 months and still gaining | seems to work well with the manic stage of bi-polar disorder but because of the weight gain, I do not recommend it. | F | 39 | 3 months | 2/11/2003 | 1 | Bipolar Type 2 | Feeling like a zombie, always tired, forgetfullness, | F | 22 | 3 months | 11/16/2003 | 1 | anxiety | akathesia--the feeling that you want to pace constantly. It is torture | Zyprexa is an EVIL drug. Don't take it! You get withdrawal symptoms when you try to come off it. IT can also cause serious, permanent, deadly side effects. | F | 37 | 3 months | 4/10/2005 | 1 | bipolar 1 | i gained 70 pounds very miserable | F | 15 | 3 months | 12/15/2005 | 1 | doctor thought I was using street drug | Starting to feel brain dead. Tried to stop the med: pupils shrink, blood in stools, diarrhea. My blood glucose went up like crazy with this drug. I think I will die soon. | Only modern drug to use is seroquel 400mg/night or something (IR, not XR/prolong). Do not use low-dose (>200mg) seroquel. | M | 30 | 3 months 5 1X day | 7/9/2011 | 1 | BiPolar (rapid cycler) | WEIGHT GAIN | This drug did absolutely nothing except turn me into a fat cow! Useless. They should give it to anorexics. | F | 38 | 3 months forgot 1X day | 2/5/2010 | 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 | Delusional thoughts. | I gained thirty pounds in about three months os using this awful pill. I have no idea how I am going to lose all of this weight. I did weigh 118 pounds and now I weigh 147 pounds. This is awful. | Stay away from this pathetic weight gain pill. | M | 18 | 3 months | 4/19/2009 | 1 | bi-polar type II | lethargic, grogginess | zyprexa totally saps the life out of anyone taking it, leaving no emotions or energy to do basic tasks. i was more functional on depekote + risperdol. zyprexa is the worst, after not taking it for months, i took one 15mg blue pill and i felt extrememly lethargic for the next 36 hours. zyprexa is a poison that i would not recommend if there are other options. its very difficult to move around, you'll feel like a zombie from the "weight" that this medicine induces. i would pick the manic energy that can be utilized towards production and activity than the slow weighty groggy feeling of zyprexa. i rate this product zero. | M | 25 | 3 months | 8/12/2009 | 1 | Schizo-effective | Weight gain; seizure; dry-mouth | F | 3 months 10 mg | 2/8/2017 | 1 | Bipolar | Violently rapid frightening weight gain. Do not get afraid of your scale like I did; one month later and 40 pounds gained. Also, I could not figure out where the weight gain was coming from. The pounds flew on like magic even when I monitored my eating. I STILL cannot lose the weight and I've been off it 3 months. I lost months of my life due to this drug. All I recall is sitting around watching t.v. all day. Zoned. | This drug sucks like nothing has ever sucked before, and I seemed to have ingested the entire contents of the PDR in the past 20 years since my diagnosis. Want to be a brainless blimp? Have fun with Zyprexa! | F | 40 | 3 months | 7/1/2008 | 1 | bipolar II | extreme drowsiness, feeling like a zombie | This drug was by far the worst out of all the meds I have tried!!! I was on only 2.5 mg (in addition to 100 mg Topamax and 75 mg Effexor XR). My doctor told me that it would help augment the Effexor XR and in turn help with my anxiety. I was reluctant to take it because I read all over the place that it caused major, major weight gain but then I figured since I was on the other two meds (which suppress appetite) that I should be okay. Well, it didn't make me gain weight! Thank goodness! My intuition was right about that! Anywho, moving on....I had to sleep 10-12 hours each night and [if time allowed] take a two hour nap in the afternoon. That would be fine every now and then, but NOT on a DAILY basis! The zombie-effect was totally horrid! I was indifferent towards nearly everything! My creativity and intellect was dulled; it was extremely difficult to think =( I had almost no personality. This boomeranged of course. When I thought about what I was turning into, I became frighten | F | 3 months | 12/29/2007 | 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 | Hypomania/psychosis | While On Zyprexa: Blunted emotions, tunnel vision, weight gain, disorganized thinking/no thoughts at all, confusion, clumsy, crazy appetite which caused insomnia, aching kidneys, creativity destroyed, sleeping 20 hours a day, sleep talking, fatigue, increased paranoia, constipation(3weeks), acne, depression, facial paralysis, leg cramping, erectile dysfunction, low bp After Stopping: constant ringing in the ears, agitation, facial grimacing, muscle twitching, akathisia, insomnia, extreme anxiety, suicidal visions, racing thoughts, heart palpitations, tachycardia, chest pains, feelings of doom, weakness | My nurse seemed nice and she said the only side effect was weight gain...she couldn't be more wrong. She also said it was a baby dose...I'd like to see her feed some of this to a baby. This drug was first used as an anesthetic...then tested on psychotic ppl. This stuff just makes you brain dead, and beats your body up quite badly, good luck all | M | 20 | 2.5 months | 4/20/2007 |