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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ZYPREXA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | bi-polar | 25+lb. weight gain in less than 8 weeks,off & on flat affect, diabetes, the need for 10 hrs. sleep & difficult waking up | It took 5 years to find a med. that worked. Within a week my mood swings lessened and I felt human again. Zyprexa saved my life. At times I'd feel real flat & my vivacious personality had lessend considerably. My psychiatrist added Wellbutrin to Zyprexa and Lithium. After 9 years, I'm now off of the Zyprexa because my glucose nos. went into diabetes mode. I had no idea that was a side effect. I'm back to feeling like me again (w/out the extreme swings). I do miss the ability to sleep late on the weekends! | F | 59 | 9 years | 12/20/2007 | 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 | 5 | Bipolar I | Morning somnolence, fogginess; puffy eyes; emotional flatness. | Zyprexa has been an extremely effective anti-manic agent for me, and also seems to help with depression. | M | 39 | 8 years | 4/6/2008 | 4 | schizophrenia | sedation, dry mouth, weight gain | probably one of the better ones for sex drive. I took this medication at 5mg for eight years straight and worked in a hospitality job and then law enforcement. When my doctor took me off of this drug cold turkey, I became psychotic, met a woman and got engaged to her in less than three weeks and eventually had to go back on anti-psychotics. Zyprexa really isn't a bad drug compared to say, risperidone. I recommend non-stop exercise on this drug. I take INVEGA now and it doesn't make me sleep half the day, however, it is bad for the drive. | M | 34 | 8 years | 6/16/2008 | 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 | depression, borderline PD | To be on a medication so long it was hard to tell what was me and what was the medication when I went off it I realized the sleepiness and laziness were side effects. Also I had weight gain, high cholesterol, high triglycerides, and high glucose. Heat intolerance which made me sick when I ran 5K races on warm days. Withdrawal: increased anxiety, muscle tension, heightened sensitivity to stimuli, aggitation. These mimiced the symptoms I went on the medication for. But the withdrawal was complete in two weeks. Now I am very glad I am off of it. | Zyprexa is a mixed blessing. When my life was unstable and my depression was more severe it was a life saver. It gave me boundaries. When others were upset I didnot have to be upset with them. So I was much less sensitive to perceived rejection. I am fortunate I now have a stable job and my kids have grown up well. So I don't need it to function. When I went off it I did so because of the metabolic side effects. I was surprised to experience the anxiety and tension. And equally surprised when they went away after two weeks. I have discoverd I am not lazy or sleepy or hungry all the time. That was the zyprexa not me. However if my life fell apart by getting fired or someone dying and I became suicidal and unable to function I would probably go back on it | F | 54 | 8 years | 12/9/2006 | 3 | psychosis | sexual dysfunction-totally dead, weight gain- hungry all the time, forgetfulness, severe lack of motivation, apathy,solomence | the side effects can be pretty terrible but to be fair the drug has helped me live a pretty normal life the past 8 years, now ive been re-diagnosed as having no sign of phycosis and thats amazing because at the start i was VERY ill but i think probably knowing God has been the much bigger factor in the healing process i thoroughly recommend Jesus christ as your healer and more so as your saviour(but never come off antiphycotic till you doc says so). Im coming off olanzapine now and im rejoicing | M | 30 | 8 years 15mg 1X day | 7/31/2010 | 3 | phycosis | sexual dysfunction-totally dead, weight gain- hungry all the time, forgetfulness, severe lack of motivation, apathy,solomence | the side effects can be pretty terrible but to be fair the drug has helped me live a pretty normal life the past 8 years, now ive been re-diagnosed as having no sign of phycosis and thats amazing because at the start i was VERY ill but i think probably knowing God has been the much bigger factor in the healing process i thoroughly recommend Jesus christ as your healer and more so as your saviour(but never come off antiphycotic till you doc says so). Im coming off olanzapine now and im rejoicing | M | 30 | 8 years 15mg 1X day | 7/31/2010 | 2 | Psychosis | I get restlessness and in the last five years I have had racing thoughts along with the restlessness. This can last for eight hours and then if I go to sleep with it I wake up with it in the morning. It is destroying my life. I have also developed vision problems from the anxiety of life in general and I think because of this drug. | I really want to come off this drug but the Psychiatrist say that there isn't a drug that will work as well. I am very frustrated and angry at the mental health system. Its like a living hell that I'm living and I'm sure if I come off this drug I'll be much better. It has taken away some hallucinations and delusions but I feel I could cope with the halluncinations in my life quite fine now I know what they are. I really want to come off this medication. | F | 38 | 8 years 20MG 1X day | 7/24/2015 | 1 | Bipolar disorder | Loss of emotion, extreme fatigue, massive weight gain, sleeping too much, loss of creativity , in short it f...s up your life | Don’t ever start taking this medication, it ruined my life. I used to be very athletic, full of life, creative and passionate about what I do. Now I feel like a zombie, I have no emotion, I cannot even cry. I gained 30kgs, now I’m trying to wean off this poison, I know it won’t be easy but I’m determined.. | F | 8 years 7,5mg | 10/5/2019 | 1 | mood disorders; paranoia;szichoph. | very suicidal after a few years, extreme weight gain; spots in eyes, ringing in the ears;erctile dysfunction | Never ever have anyone take it; Now I am off of it and also watch what I eat; realized also sugar and anything that turns to sugar makes my moods change for the worse;I lost 40 lbs since off of it; now have all the side effects to deal with. | M | 54 | 8 years | 6/15/2008 | 1 | anxiety | 8 years 2.5 1X day | 5/11/2012 | 5 | anxiety and tics | Fortunately no side effects | Within two days of adding Zyprexa to my SSRI both my all-consuming anxiety and the accompanying nervous tics vanished. I opted to take the smallest dose possible (1.25 mg) and fortunately for me, I experienced only a small weight gain (which I've since reversed). For me it is a miracle drug, since I've been plagued by overwhelming anxiety and depression since childhood. | F | 63 | 7 years 1.25mg 1X day | 12/7/2011 | 5 | Bipolar | I, too, call this my rescue drug. When it was first prescribed to me, it allowed me to go from suicidally depressed to high functioning within 8 weeks. Unfortunately, the weight gain was tremendous and eventually I had to discontinue using it as my main med. Now I take Lamictal for maintenance and Zyprexa when I foresee a crisis. Haven't had a full-blown manic episode in 7 years. | F | 38 | 7 years | 3/14/2008 | 4 | depression | Sedation, difficulty getting up in the morning, drowsy all day | While Zyprexa greatly improves my depression and makes me more functional, it also makes me drowsy reduces my functionality. I’ve been off and on Zyprexa for over 7 years. I started taking 7mg. I was sleeping my life away then. And I could not lift my head off the pillow. My doctor reduced the dose and I changed the time I took my meds. Now, I split the 2.5 mg. pill. I take 1.25 mg. at 6:00 PM. I’m still drowsy but getting up is no longer a problem. | F | 43 | 7 years | 10/19/2006 | 4 | depression | Sedation, difficulty getting up in the morning, drowsy all day | While Zyprexa greatly improves my depression and makes me more functional, it also makes me drowsy reduces my functionality. I’ve been off and on Zyprexa for over 7 years. I started taking 7mg. I was sleeping my life away then. And I could not lift my head off the pillow. My doctor reduced the dose and I changed the time I took my meds. Now, I split the 2.5 mg. pill. I take 1.25 mg. at 6:00 PM. I’m still drowsy but getting up is no longer a problem. | F | 43 | 7 years | 10/19/2006 | 3 | schizophrenia | weight gain; always hungry; sedation; apathy | Helped tremendously w/hallucinations, but made some of the negative symptoms worse -- no emotion, no creativity, flat affect. I have to take it -- nothing else works. But I try everything else that comes out hoping to switch to something that doesn't cause weight gain. | F | 49 | 7 years | 9/20/2007 | 1 | bipolar disorder | I have a massive weight gain,+10 inches on my waist. I sleep 14 to 16 hours a day, I have reduced emotions and motivation, diminished concern, general apathy. two years into treatment my dose was reduced from 10mg to 5mg per day, following a near fatal deep vein thrombosis. two months ago I had a ruptured pancreas, vomiting blood and in extreme pain. etc. | Zombie Pills, a "Chemical Cosh" my life is in total ruins. My family are ashamed to know me, I no longer have any contact with them. In my view this drug should never have received a licence. I know of three people about my age, who took olanzapine, and now have a headstone. I feel I will soon follow them to an early grave. | M | 59 | 7 years 5 mg 1X day | 6/7/2010 | 1 | depression, then bipolar & anxiety | I feel like I am losing short term memory. When I first took 25 mg I was a sleeping zombie all day long, in 9th grade I was a wreck and did real bad in school. I forget a lot of things now, even though now im taking 10 mg. When sometimes I stop all of a sudden, my head explodes with thoughts and anxiety, well, that was before... I say the only medicine that would work is being religious and praying, no medicine helps end of story! | Did you know zyprexa reduces your dopamine level so you dont feel schitzophrenia even if that isnt your diagnosis. Too much reduction of dopamine causes parkinson's disease, slow movement...All I really needed to cure myself is to not care about what people said to me. if your going to take zyprexa, make sure to take the anti- side effect drug cogentin. | M | 19 | 7 years | 1/31/2008 | 5 | Bipolar 1 | Weight gain only | Zyprexa saved my life. I was experiencing psychotic symptoms and Manic depressive swings. I take 20 mg at night, and it has calmed me and brought me back down to earth many times. I have gained quite a lot of weight, but the pros well outweigh the cons. | F | 31 | 6 years 20 mg 1X day | 7/30/2020 |