Anybody take Zyprexa?

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If so, what happened to you when you first started to take it?

I didn't experience any side effects when i took it.

I didn't stay long on Zyprexa as it made me too sleepy to function as a college student. I convinced my psychiatrist who was really a glorified drug pusher, that because I have a family history of bipolar disorder, it doesn't mean that I have it. At the time I was seeing him, I was clinically depressed and have never had a manic episode.

I've taken it....it made me really sleepy...NOTHING would wake me up.....it was affecting my job so i stopped taking it.

I took it 3 years ago, and my family doctor just prescribed me some last week (2.5 mg). It is an atypical antipsychotic by definition. Even thought my dosage is not strong, I experience a lack of mental focus, dizzyness, and appetite gain (all of these being fairly unpleasant). 90% of users had a weight gain ; when I took it 3 years ago, I ended up being 170 lbs while I was 130 lbs prior to using it. Doctors seem to prescribe it to about everyone : one of my friend is bipolar and uses it too.

I plan to change my medication as I profoundly dislike the effects. I consulted my doctor just to have some pills to sleep and ended up with zyprexa. I guess they get a wage for prescribing it.

Well it's still under patent. I had to stop it from the side effects I was getting. (sleepiness, feelings of heart attack, very mild tics, feelings of stroke). I'm seeing the doc again on Friday. I saw him today and advised me to stop Zyprexa and on Friday will discuss further options. I hope he is willing to let me try Abilify. I hear it has a lower chance of drowsiness, but he tells me I might get jittery.

I have taken it in the past but it did not help me too much. Also, I got quite sleepy from it (even more than from Seroquel which I take now) so the side-effects were rather annoying. However, every patient reacts differently to a certain medication so I'm sure Zyprexa has been useful to many.

What benefit did your doctors say this horrible drug would bring you? It's an antipsychotic, and not really of any use to you unless you need help getting out of a psychotic episode. Sometimes, schools and such will tell someone to use them to reduce irritability or aggression though, which it actually works for, since it makes you indifferent just about everything.

What's really sad is that in today's drug-peddling USA, many doctors will claim drugs like that help you with problems they really don't, and they neglect to tell you that these drugs cripple creativity and hurt cognitive ability in several ways.

It was for the sensory issues related to the Asperger's. I'm (at the accordance of my doc) am stopping Zyprexa. It made me worse anyway.

I was prescribed it when i was 17. I took it for a while and it had absolutely no effect on me, so the doctors took me off of it. Guess I wasn't psychotic after all, eh? lol.

I was prescribed Zyprexa and Depakote. I never took them. I don't want to be drowsy. I need my brain to be awake and alert for college.

Actually, the fact that it is branded for psychosis doesn't mean it isn't good for other things. It is pretty good for for preventing cluster headaches, among other things. But I think kudzu root is as good or better for that. Kudzu blocks serotonin-2 receptors. Zyprexa works on the serotnonin and dopamine receptors. Zyprexa causes weight gain, metabolic syndrome, and possibly diabetes. Some research suggests that kudzu prevents metabolic syndrome/diabetes.

"Antibiotics" are also anabolic hormones at lower levels - that is why they feed them to animals. Unfortunate side effect of that is that antibiotic resistant bacteria evolve as a result.

Kudzu and Cluster Headache

yep i take it, it keeps my mind in order and my down spells under control, and i have an appitite now.

but i cannot harbor a story in my head anymore [which in a way is good now] and my ability to obsess is gone. strange thing is i want to be upset about that but it's hard to cry now or to be sad.

it doesn't make me tired at all though, it's like normal ambian [or whatever its called] for me, neither affect me. my mom says i need dynomite to put me to sleep [which means i need the most powerful stuff].

i got the same antibitoc resistance and i couldn't take them for years or they wouldn't work at all. i had to get my tosiles [can't spell] removed and had to go on natural meds.

after that we found i was allergic to tons of stuff [we had a binder with all the stuff written down, till we lost it] now i'm healthier but i wouldn't wish this on a demon.

i'm actually happy about the weight gain, i got down to 111 and was literaly resting on the floor because i was weak and dizzy.
my normal wieght is about 127 or so and i was 8 pounds below my healthy range, i'm now around 123 and 119 and it's not so easy to count my ribs anymore.

I'm well aware of how anti-psychotics work, yes, but you'd have to be pretty stupid to take them for stuff like headaches because of their in general very harmful effects - crippling creativity, impairing cognitive abilities, dysphoria, causing the state of extreme restlessness called akathisia and a host of other stuff, including lethal complications like neuroleptic malignant syndrome and agranulocytosis, and let's not forget that some of them like Risperdal can cause male lactation because of how they tamper with the hormone prolactin. Anti-psychotics are serious business and should only be prescribed in extreme cases, but today in the US they're being pushed to people with all sorts of conditions, where the harm from taking them dwarfs any benefit you'll have from them. It serves a purpose for big pharma though, since long-term exposure to anti-psychotics usually leaves you chronically ill, a drug consumer for life.