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 |
| 2 | Mixed Bipolar | Extreme sleepiness | This med solved my problems by rendering me unconscious, so I guess in that sense it was great. However, if I actually needed to get something accomplished it was sort of inconvenient. I would stay away from this one if you tend to overreact to meds that make you sleepy. On the other hand, if you need help sleeping, this might be the one for you. | M | 28 | 3 days | 10/5/2006 | 1 | Hallucinations | Dizziness, almost blacking out, heart racing, weakness, tremors, coldsweat | i had to stop after 2 or 3 days due to the fact that i couldnt think straight (like barely even remember my name) and worst of all, my heart raced so much i thought i was having a heart attack. | F | 17 | 3 days | 1/20/2005 | 1 | Depression | Worked for about three weeks, then BOOM, I don't know what happened. Back in the dumps bigtime. It's been three weeks off it and I hope the symptoms subside. Suicidal thoughts and very bleak moods. I'm trying Buspar and have to take some antianxiety meds for now, I hope I can quit them eventually. | M | 49 | 3 days | 9/22/2005 | 1 | anxiety, depression | i'm really confused, feel disoriented | could only make it 3 nights of taking it | M | 22 | 3 days | 5/7/2009 | 3 | Bipolar, Boderline | Sleepyness and drowsiness, sleeping at work, acid reflux | I am tired but my thougts are not running like crazy. Not enjoying the drowsiness. I am a front line worker and need to act fast. I am not able to think properly and am experiencing the world at about half the normal pace. People talk to me and I feel like I am under water. Can't keep my mind focused and my eyes are slow. | F | 33 | 2 days | 8/3/2006 | 2 | depression | This medication has made me feel so sleepy during the day, as was directed by my doctor to take it before bed at night, I have only taken it twice, and both mornings I woke up late with the alarm clock blaring into my ears. I slept way too hard on this medication so far and have been extremely hungry and thirsty. | I'm not sure if this is the right medication for me. I see my doctor tomorrow and will tell him of the side effects. | F | 28 | 2 days | 10/5/2005 | 1 | Bipolar | sleeeeeepy, in a daze, in a zone, cannot wake up~my doctor said it had a 10 percent chance of weight gain, after reading about it, it seems everyone has gained weight on it. | I have been on every manic subsiding drug, i have only taken this for 2 days, but I am done with it already. I cannot stop sleeping, I slept a total of 28 hours in one sitting. | F | 30 | 2 days | 8/19/2007 | 1 | 72 hours hold for suicide | I took a total of 10 mg and now I feel more terrible in my whole life. I want to commit suicide more then ever now. My sleep pattern of off and I don't enjoy life at all. I want to die. | M | 50 | 2 days 5 mg 1X day | 3/30/2010 | 1 | Severe chronic insomnia | Total brain-death for a full week | My doctor put me on Zyprexa for severe chronic insomnia - no idea as to why he would have chosen this drug over all other available meds. Anyway, I took 1 pill, slept for 24 hours straight and wasn't right in the mind for a full week afterwards. 1 pill, low dose. I have never been so brain and emotion-dead in my entire life. I tried half a pill a while later when I hadn't slept in weeks and was getting desperate - same exact thing. I flushed the rest and got a new doctor. Dastardly stuff. | F | 36 | 2 days | 7/25/2008 | 1 | Sleeping pill | Thoughts of harm towards myself and others. | M | 40 | 2 days 5mg 1X day | 9/29/2017 | 1 | Depression | Horrible Tremendous restlessness Very drugged. Was put on 5 other meds Cause of the side effects people said I was autistic don't go near it. Try anything before these apsycotics. Causes weight gain too Then the titration. Please please get off it! | Horrendous drug for teen | F | 17 | 2 days 20 | 7/26/2015 | 5 | persistent imnsomnia | None | F | 51 | 1 days 2.5 | 3/12/2013 | 5 | Schizophrenia | Light headed gastric somtime erectile problem but orgasm better than the rest ability orgasm ok too erectile good libido but causes anxiety always want to eat to get energy overall I really like zyprexa Take lowest dosage cause all of this meds decreased sexuality | M | 35 | 1 days 5 | 8/28/2012 | 4 | depression/bipolar ii | Slurred speech and difficulty expressing thoughts. Sluggish thinking and fatigue. Feel stupid. But better. Better stupid than not better - right? | Big Z seems to have broken this "spell" of recent depression. Have been on Welbutrin XL 300 mg and some supplemental Zoloft. But have felt very bad this past week, so I took a 5 mg left-over Zyprexa today and feel better already. My shrink had replaced the BigZ with Cymbalta, but that stuff is poison: detox is agony (2 mo. brain zaps). | M | 60 | 1 days | 8/19/2006 | 4 | hearing voices | none | none | M | 52 | 1 days | 7/21/2003 | 1 | bi-polar 1 | Knocked me unconscious for 72 hours | STUPID CRAP FOR CRAP! Do not take this shit! I took it, and the next thing I know, I pass out and come to two days later...I'd been staggerin' around in a completely nonresponsive zombielike state on a cross state trip for the time and it was really bad. Oooooh if I ever see the guy who prescribed this stuff to me again he's toast. | F | 19 | 1 days | 4/22/2004 | 1 | Stepdaughter-Bipolar???? | Stepdaughter takes it....increased appetite and thirst. Extreme sedation...takes at bed but it carries through to the next day, she's zombie like and keeping her awake is not possible. She usually "wakes up" around 5-7 pm, then takes her dosage and goes to bed at 7:30 to 8:00. It's sad. | My stepdaughter (teenager) was prescribed this by her Mother's psychiatrist for bi-polar...with no medical history. My stepdaughter has gained approx 50 lbs in the last yr and is not the same child she used to be......very zombie-like when awake -which she usually isn't. Her days are spent eating and sleeping....she used to not be like this. Of course her bio Mom doesn't notice because she does the same. We are getting court-order for change of custody to her Dad (my husband) with extreme limited visitation with the Mother and will immediately wean her off with a physician's guidance. This drug has poisoned her. | F | 17 | 1 days | 12/15/2006 | 1 | anxiety and depression | dizziness, nightmares, fear, panic did I say dizziness? Fear and utter panic. Can't type this very well even after taking tranqs. | Took it last night adn had worst night of nightmares, and fear of sleeping through day, couldn't lift head from pillow, had to scrounge up two tranqs from friend just to get dressed (have lots of work to do to pay for this stupid drug) and am tempted to not take it tonight as have had the worst day for a long time. After reading the many different responses to this i feel it's already acting badly for me, can't imagine what it would be like to feel like this all the time (dizzy, slow, took an hour to build up courage to get organised, do some work, and be able to sit up at computer as am so dizzy. without tranqs know I would be shaking violently as was before. Am furious with the medical world for doing this, doctors say you should keep trying but i hate this feelign of fear and fear for the future on th drug and I take each day as being so precious after having depression for years and finally seeing the light and was well enought o try to seek further help and now feel worse than ever. Lilly you suck. | F | 38 | 1 days 5mg a day 1X day | 8/13/2010 | 1 | stress,insomnia | beyond extreme, continuing tinnitus/feeling of hot liquid in forehead | this ruined any possibility of survival by causing extreme whistling in my ears to worsen my already catastrophic insomnia and stress | M | 48 | 1 days 2.5 1X day | 11/22/2014 | 1 | anxiety and POSSIBLE bi-polar | ABSOLUTE ADVERSE EFFECTS! Took medication as directed by family doctor before going to sleep, and woke up with facial paralysis, leg muscle rigidity, maybe even partial paralysis, multiple voices, an overall Freak show of a psychotic episode. I could not control muscle tremors or twitching, dry eyes, eye pain- EXTREME short term memory loss (amnesia) - broke out in violence towards family, destroyed furniture and dishware while experiencing the memory loss and psychosis and had no idea.......lost logic and tried driving to work- nearly totalled vehicle twice in 30 mins. Upon leaving work....Slept for 16 hours. | THIS DRUG IS FOR SERIOUS CASES ONLY! I wouldn't recommend anyone taking this medication even if the doctor thinks it will help even out moods and help sleep. Unless you have major psychosis, DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG. | M | 24 | 1 days | 12/22/2007 |