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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ZYPREXA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | schizoaffective/anxiety | drowsy-slept 16+hours per day for first month, but this went away (occassional drowsiness) ate everything in sight...have to be very conscious of my diet, but have not gained any weight. | A god send. without zyprexa often couldn't leave the house, unemployable, homeless. tried other antipsychs, seroquel made me more agitated. zyprexa works great for me (anxiety/panic disorder, bi-polar, schizophrenia all diagnosed/ schizoaffective is current diagnosis) | M | 38 | 2 months | 12/17/2006 | 5 | Mixed states re Bipolar Disorder | some constipation, some bloating. | Works wonders. The best of all the atypicals. I highly recommend it. Also great for sleep. | F | 49 | 2 months | 6/29/2006 | 5 | Schizoaffective | I haven't experienced many side effects. I must be one of the lucky ones who has not gained any weight-I am naturally thin. I don't feel tired but I do act slighty zombified for the first few hours after I take a dose. So I split the dose but take them both later in the day when I am home. Zyprexa has helped me much more than seroquel with voices and depression. Don't let others scare you. Try it for yourself. | F | 29 | 2 months 10mg. 2X day | 8/15/2013 | 4 | Bipolar (depressive episode) | Within 24 hours, had stopped planning suicide, ripped up suicide letters to husband and two children. Had been scheduled to enter hospital for ECT, but delusional thinking stopped, depression decreased and I started feeling pretty good and connected with the world and my loved ones again. Side effects included lethargy, I didn't want to continue my usual exercise regime. I felt ravaged by hunger constantly. In two months, I went from 115lbs to 134lbs. I was eating in ways that were completely uncharacteristic for me. Getting pastries for breakfast, stopping at convenience stores to pick up bags of chips, eating a pint of Ben & Jerry's icecream every night (no kidding)! It was just crazy. Not only could I not stop eating, but even after eating constantly I was always still starving. This felt very strange and I did not like feeling so out of control. | I have never felt so fantastic in all my life as when I was on Zyprexa. I felt so happy and optimistic (but not manic). My husband said that he had never felt closer emotionally to me and that I was so joyful to be around that he didn't even care about the weight gain. However, I did care. Once I felt that I was out of the woods in terms of attempting suicide, I eased off the 7.5mg of Zyprexa and onto 350mg Lamictal. The Lamictal has stabalized my moods but I don't feel nearly as great as when I was on the Zyprexa. If they could somehow eliminate the bizarre weight gain, I would immediately go back on it and stay on it. I've also been on Wellbutrin 400SR for 9 years. I don't plan to go back on Zyprexa. My husband has labelled it "my back pocket emergency drug" if needed, just because it works so fast. | F | 35 | 2 months | 9/20/2005 | 3 | Bipolar disorder/mania | Vegetable-like state, weight gain | I was put on this drug (was traveling in Argentina and it was first choice of doctors w/o consultation) after a psychotic attack and it drastically reduced the mania. It took a few days to work (I believe I started at 10 mg for 2 days then 20 or 30 mgs for the rest of the duration). I was in my senior year in college and was able to take a break. After that, I read part of my manuscript that I completed in front of a small audience and felt fine (with the support of my family). Made me too bland however to went with Geodon. | F | 22 | 2 months 30 mg? 1X day | 3/11/2010 | 3 | bipolar 1 | this is my second rating- because although I have STOP my CRYING spells, it has caused other issues with me, including- confusion, my motor skills are S.L.O.W my brain is waaay to relaxed, I feel like I am in slow motion, I can hardly write, my hands are so shaky, I can no longer play guitar, I cannot keep up WITH 'MY NORMAL' activities, I have memory problems, and I cant STOP eating my head off.... additionally it has made me VERY aggressive! I called on Friday to my doctor, my dr was not in so another dr called me back, and told me to stop taking the zyprexa, ok, I stopped it, friday , saturday, and today sunday I have been crying all day! I will call my regular dr tomorrow, I feel hopeless now... I hope I can find a happy medium I hate being sick, I hate crying, I hate not being 'normal' .. being bipolar, borderline personality, and what ever else really sux! | if you would like to contack me, pls feel free to do so.. with any questions, or suggestions. [email protected] | 43 | 2 months 2.5 1X day | 9/18/2011 | 3 | bipolar II Mania | Tiredness all day, no motivation, increase in appetite, zombieness | Since my last, and first "manic episode" I have been very calm, and submissive. No reocurrance of mania. I feel tired all day, and my motivation is gone. This pill makes you a boring, and semi-concious person. I went from being manic to being borderline depressive with no mood whatsoever. Unless you call a zombielike trance a mood. If it weren't for the Ridalin I don't know if I would ever get out of bed. | M | 26 | 2 months 10MG 1X day | 1/12/2011 | 3 | Anxiety/OCD | slight weight gain, shaking hands in the early stages. stopping cold turkey: extreme and uncontrollable anxiety and panic. after two weeks of this with no improvement i went back on. will have to taper slowly. | i was prescribed Zyprexa to 'augment' my 60mg of Paxil during an acute bout of anxiety and OCD. It worked well; my intrusive thoughts backed right off and my anxiety dropped away. i was never warned however that some people experience an extreme reaction to a sudden cessation of the drug. i stopped cold turkey after 2 months, and within 3 days was experiencing extreme withdrawal/side effects. 5am-5pm, every day, i would be gripped by never-ending anxiety and panic, and constant crying (sometimes howling). these symptoms were much, much worse than anything i had ever experienced before. after nearly 2 weeks of this i could not stand it anymore and went back on zyprexa. i've been back on it for a week and am finally starting to stabilise again. if you have been prescribed this drug for any of the anxiety disorders then please make sure you taper your does very slowly, as it can weeks (10 or more) for your brain chemistry to readjust to the withdrawal of the drug. a 10% reduction every 2 | M | 33 | 2 months | 10/24/2006 | 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 | Grandson | Was working not bad.. Then my grandsons started being very anxious.. Bad thoughts..now he is having movements in his arms .head.. Face.its not been fun.he is like his. Starting over panic attacks scared again .. | Hate what its doing to him | M | 15 | 2 months | 2/7/2017 | 2 | Schizophrenia | Faster than normal weight gain. 1.5 stone in 4 weeks. Fat belly that won't shift with diet or exercise. Can't awaken before 1pm (sleeping or laying in bed 14+hours) no interest in sexual activity. | The only thing that interests you is food. Any kind of sweets and fatty stuff no matter what's in it or where it comes from. You feel amazing when you stuff your face and stomach beyond full. Every activity becomes a time filler until you can eat again. Physical activity like jogging becomes so difficult because the heavily slowed metabolism makes it near impossible for you to cool down fast enough and get your now heavily shortened breath. Getting to sleep at nighttime ( previously being a night owl) is much easier but you habe no desire to get up as you only partially wake, feeling like you have no strength at all. Lying down feels like a gift from the heavens. You can pee like a racehorse but it holds up your bowels and gives you constipation. It's kills anxiety as you dont worry about the world at large (politics, poisons and toxins in the food production, drug company conspiracies, gmo mass sterilisation conspiracies, poison in the wheat and corn, mass social media experimentation and psych warfare through music, the Cold War) You feel that these things are not for you You can go into the supermarket and the shelves are full It's there. You consume it. You don't think of any questions.and everything is resultantly easier. Your bulging appearance is of no concern to you because your appetite for sex is non existent. You are a pet hamster | F | 27 | 2 months 12.5 | 5/17/2016 | 2 | who knows! (to avoid psychosis?) | I was only on a low dosage. (Can't remember how much) Really bad dehydration - dry mouth, dark poo!, constipation. Weight gain - put on about 10 kg (which made me more depressed!) Felt Yuck - like you do when you first get on a anti-biotic. | They stuck me in a mental hospital cause I was going nuts-oid and nearly topped myself. I was already on Effexor (for Major Depression and OCD/OCPD)and was fine with that, because I felt that was working - though they were still increasing the dosage slowly. In the psych ward, on day one, they tried to force feed me some sleeping tablets and zyprexa. I refused intially, saying I was not delusional, nor schizo, and I would get better by being left alone - the reason I'd become sick, was because everyone was bothering me out in the world and I just needed to be left alone to feel better!. I got through without the sleeping tablets, slowly finding my sleep pattern again, to their amazement. In the meantime some nice doctor asked me to take the zyprexa "just in case" I was heading towards psychosis with the Depression. (When some nasty nurses ordered me to, I'd told them to "shove it"). I felt it did nothing but made me feel icky. The increase of Effexor was bett | F | 33 | 2 months | 2/15/2009 | 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 | 2 | Schizoprenia - psychotic episodes | overall dullness, weight gain, zombie like reactions, sadness, lost all feeling of hope for the future. became less creative. | too afraid to stop taking it. | F | 33 | 2 months | 11/12/2006 | 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 | 2 | anxiety/Obsessions | weight gain, sleepy all day everyday, no matter how much sleep i get or whether I exercise I feel like a zombie all day, I don't know how I've kept my job. I'm getting floaters in my eyes but they could be a result of the lexapro I'm taking | This drug isn't living. You're a zombie and you don't feel some of those emotions that are near and dear to us. It's helped kill my anxiety off but has replaced it with depression. One other positive thing it did was help me quit smoking. I liked seroquel better | M | 27 | 2 months 5mg 1X day | 9/15/2010 | 2 | Schizoaffective w/ Bipolar Subtype | Weight Gain | This drug helped me get back on track as far as being more social, hygenic, and less paranoid. The downside....45lbs weight gain in two months. | F | 35 | 2 months 30mg 1X day | 1/7/2012 | 1 | Racing thoughts/Psychosis | Large increase in appetite. Large amount of weight gain. | I haven't taken this drug since the Spring of 2010. Started at 5 mg once a day and maxed at 20 mg once a day. Did nothing except make me pack on the pounds which I have since lost. Another drug that struck out with me. | M | 26 | 2 months 20 1X day | 3/20/2011 | 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 | withdrawal syndrome from Celexa | I took Celexa, and had a severe reaction to it. I was removed from it cold turkey (NEVER DO THIS OR ALLOW SOMEONE ELSE TO DO THIS TO YOU). I wound up with panic attacks, tingling in my arms and legs, paranoia, intrusive suicidal urges, etc...So my doctor gave me Zyprexa for an "off-label" use. She said I had anxiety. The first couple of weeks were okay, except I gained 8 1/2 lbs., and was having occasional twitches. When I found out it is an antipsychotic, I decided to wean off of it. The withdrawal syndrome from Celexa returned, and culminated in akathisia, a severe neurological disorder which causes the sufferer to pace endlessly and eventually leads to suicide if not treated. Not knowing that Zyprexa can cause this, I returned to the doctor, where it was reinstated. The next month was a living hell. I had burning sensations in my arms and legs, I felt disconnected from reality, I would wake up without a single thought in my head, I was knocked out 12 hours a day, | Please do not allow a doctor to convince you that you need this drug. Do some research regarding psychiatry and "chemical imbalances". I studied psychology in university, and there really is no proof that any psychological disorders actually exist. Psychiatry is simply a way to pathologize regular human emotions and behavior, and consequently make a lot of people very rich. If you are having emotional problems, seek the advice of alternative health care practitioners, or a doctor who will run a full medical exam. AND DON'T LET THE DOCTORS TELL YOU THAT YOU WILL SUFFER FROM YOUR "DISORDER" FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. All of these so-called disorders (unless caused by brain damage, or other physical health problems, many of them treatable, such as hypothyroidism) are transient, and usually the result of stress. If you would not willingly undergo a lobotomy, then do not take this drug. | F | 31 | 2 months | 2/27/2007 |