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Stopped my anxiety attacks (two recent visits to ER). At the ER they gave me lorazepam. My doctor put me on 5 mg per day olanzapine because lorazepam is a depressant and could trigger another anxiety atack (paradoxically even though it is an antianxiolitic) before the flouxetine he also prescribed stabilizes me. I had to reduce to 2.5 mg after first dose of olanzapine because of severe lethargy (M...

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Angry man a | 19-24 | Male | On medication for 1 to 6 months | Patient
6/27/2022
Condition: Other
Overall rating 1.3
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It hasn't helped me with my anger and yelling this drug is weak and pitiful it doesn't work for me my anger is still there mentally and emotionally hurting physically and mentally I hate it

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Anonymous | 25-34 | Female | On medication for less than 1 month | Patient
5/22/2022
Condition: Other
Overall rating 4.3
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For acute psychosis, was prescribed 5mg tablets. Taking them at night, I still had severe drowsiness through the day. I split it into 2.5mg pills (doctor approved) and still took at night, which worked well for me. Almost immediately eliminated delusions and hallucinations, and I felt my mood improve (I also experience depression). I didn’t take the medication one night to see if the psychosis had lessened; I hallucinated again and took the 2.5 dose and it worked fo eliminate symptoms within 1 hour. Can’t speak to long term treatment (though that’s likely where I’m headed).Read More Read Less

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Ashley | 13-18 | Female | On medication for 10 years or more | Patient
5/21/2022
Condition: Bipolar Disorder in Remission
Overall rating 5.0
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I’m a 16 year old teenage girl. I’ve been taking this since I was 5. It is super effective at treating my bipolar and anger. I take 20 mg

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juju | 45-54 | Female | On medication for 6 months to less than 1 year | Patient
5/11/2022
Condition: Other
Overall rating 4.3
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I have OCD and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. I started taking Olanzapine because of an acute OCD episode. It helped me so much, but I couldn't deal with the side effects. It basically eliminated my OCD thoughts and it also helped me sleep better. But, I gained a lot of weight quickly and my cholesterol went up a lot. So I decided to discontinue the medicine.

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Magpie126 | Patient
5/6/2022
Condition: Bipolar I Disorder with Most Recent Episode Mixed
Overall rating 3.0
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I’m bipolar and it’s been fairly under control for a long time with just little hypomanic episodes here and there lasting a few days at the most. Recently though I started a hypomanic episode that got progressively worse and I knew I had to call my doctor for help and she put me on this med. she told me from the get go that it’s a “heavy hitter” and I’ve taken enough psych meds to know how that goes. This is my fourth day on it and I have been seriously been sleeping most of each day and am groggy when I’m not sleeping nodding off while watching tv or on my computer. As for stopping the hypomania I can’t tell if it’s doing anything and luckily my doctor said I would be on it less than 2 weeks, oh and I am only on 2.5mg! Thank goodness I am not working right now because I probably would be fired as there is absolutely NO way I can work while taking this. I am also fortunate enough (or unfortunate) to have lots of experience in taking new psych meds so I know they can make you tired. I’m going to see how I feel when I hit one week but I REFUSE to take this more than 2 weeks, I’d rather be hypomanic Read More Read Less

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Anonymous | 25-34 | Male | On medication for 6 months to less than 1 year | Patient
1/24/2022
Condition: Other
Overall rating 2.7
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I took Olanzipine due to midnight awakening. And it helped for sure. I slept throughout the night for 7 or 8 hours when I took the medicine. But the side effects were terrible. I gained weight which is a common side effect. And even worse than that I started to see and imagine things on my skin starting from having tightly packed holes or pores on my skin out of which little things came out and later insects or clusters of pins attached to my skin and sometimes spikes coming out of my skin which made me go crazy because it made me feel really uncomfortable. Even seeing images or videos of things like that made me go crazy. I couldn't even look at the Coronavirus symbol because it had things coming out of it and I imagined it on my skin. This is a terrible side effect which made me immediately stop the pill and it is taking months for this side effect to ware off. I hate this pill and advise against it. Read More Read Less

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Thinker | 25-34 | Male | On medication for 1 to 6 months | Patient
9/4/2021
Condition: Other
Overall rating 1.3
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This medicine caused me incredible problems after 2 months of use. After the planting, hell ensued. It took me a whole year to start feeling better, I hardly slept all year, I lost my appetite, I was constantly shaking, I was alternately cold and hot. I was mentally at the bottom. I couldn't live normally. It wasn't until a year later that it started to improve, then I started my own medicine and in 1/2 year I was completely healthy and without consequences. Now I'm going to file a lawsuit against the doctor.Read More Read Less

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Abena |
8/8/2021
Condition: Other
Overall rating 4.0
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Was going through post traumatic stress disorder and my psychiatrist doctor prescribe olanzipan 2.5mg.it help me sleep at night but with the side effects of palpitations, trembling, numbness etc.apart from these side effect the medication has help me subsided my symptoms. But very difficult in dealing with side effects of medicine. But don't plan taking it for a long period

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Faiza Shariff | 45-54 | Female | On medication for less than 1 month | Patient
6/27/2021
Condition: Mania associated with Bipolar Disorder
Overall rating 5.0
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When I was 25 I was diagnosed with Severe Manic Bi-Polar Disorder. What a relief, I finally had a reason why I acted the way I did. Tried every cocktail of pills imaginable. I live in a constant state of mania. The mania is so bad I actually woke up in the middle of heart surgery, and they couldn’t put me back out. When I was 37 I decided no more meds. I had a good ten years, now it’s back with a vengeance. I got a new job. I didn’t realize I was so manic until a few people asked me if I was “coked up” I went to my Dr. and he added Olanzapine to my current cocktail. It’s only been a week, but I am very calm inside. A big part of me is my big personality. The way society is, it’s better that they think I’m a coke head than tell them the truth, that I have a mental illness. I already have what they call flat affect. No highs, no lows, nothing. I feel nothing. I feel like they just medicate us so we can try to fit into the “norms of society”. I am emotionally chemically restrained. I don’t fit in anywhere. I’m not suicidal or homicidal. This is a horrible roller coaster to be on, and all the psychiatrist does is let you talk for about an hour and refills scripts. They don’t really want to address the actual trauma that got me here. Read More Read Less

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Anonymous | 55-64 | Male | On medication for 2 to less than 5 years | Patient
6/21/2021
Condition: Bipolar Disorder in Remission
Overall rating 4.7
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This medication helped get me back on track after an experience with a bad psychiatrist. I lost a couple years. It really helps with delusions, voices and racing thoughts. It also has a calming effect. It helped my thoughts become more organized. It definitely has some side effect like feeling like your in a coma or detached feelings. Also walking is more difficult so I take the lowest possible dose now 2.5 mg. It keeps you mood in neutral with no highs and lows. One disappointing down side is that you won’t have an orgasm during sex anymore.Read More Read Less

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Overseas patien | 65-74 | Male | On medication for less than 1 month | Patient
5/3/2021
Condition: Other
Overall rating 1.0
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They start using this medicine for my dad yday after that he see some people around us and talk to nobody he imagine some people come and go and he see animals and snakes I advise nobody used this poison plz safe your life it’s like drugs ????????????Be careful. Only one time and my father became like crazy talking to himself and confused. Bad medicine I wish they stopped

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Jason Mehlhoff | 45-54 | On medication for 10 years or more | Patient
2/16/2021
Condition: Schizophrenia
Overall rating 5.0
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I have been on Zyprexa since 2000. This medication has saved my life I feel. I am working. I live a good life. I am fairly happy. Things are good. I believe this medication can work for certain people. Best wishes to you all. There is hope.

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Furious | 55-64 | Female | On medication for less than 1 month | Patient
10/13/2020
Condition: Bipolar I Disorder with Most Recent Episode Mixed
Overall rating 1.0
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I was prescribed this medication as Zyprexa, a "mood stabilizer", not knowing that it is really an anti-seizure drug. My throat swelled shut on less than 1mg--I was almost gasping for air. A few years later a different doctor gave me the same drug as "olanzapine", also not mentioning why I should take it. This time I was prescribed 10mg doses instead of 2.5mg, which the pharmacy failed to notice despite the warning of "allergic to Zyprexa." Never were side effects mentioned by the doctors. Later I was forcibly injected with this horrible drug after I had told ER personnel to check with the pharmacy, that I was allergic. Instead, I got a high-dose injection (10mg, plus Ativan, plus Haldol) and I went comatose, then got very very ill in my guts. I could not walk at all. My son said that there was "no speaking with [me] at all" on olanzapine. I think this is a terrible drug. In the hospital, nearly all the people taking antipsychotics and "mood stabilizers" had iatrogenic (doctor-caused) tardive dyskinesias. These movement disorders are usually permanent, are embarrassing, and stigmatizing. TDs are close to untreatable. I now have done research and believe that nearly all the psychotropics are neuroleptics: they are damaging to nerve cells in the brain. Not "balancing nerve chemical imbalances" -- as the advertising goes. It took me a long time to get past the nerve spasms I got from forced injections of powerful drugs. No one at the hospital bothered to ask about trauma, or about what non-drug treatments would help me. They only offered drugs, drugs, drugs. I have reported medical malpractice because no one believed me that I could not tolerate Zyprexa/olanzapine. For me, this drug was torture, and put me into a state of being "beside myself", staggeringly unable to speak, walk, express myself, with nerve pains and tingling, with painful constipation followed by relentless diarrhea, constricted airways (I say "coma", the nurse wrote "resting comfortably"!). Read More Read Less

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JFH4040 | Patient
7/12/2020
Condition: Bipolar Disorder in Remission
Overall rating 4.7
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Have been taking only four days, Really helps with the Bipolar Insomnia. May not get a lot of sleep, but the quality of sleep is greatly improved feel refreshed if only sleeping a few hours. A side effect is now I have the appetite of Velociraptor!

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Anonymous | Male | On medication for 1 to 6 months | Patient
6/11/2020
Condition: Schizophrenia
Overall rating 1.0
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Heavy metal Poisoning from Titanium Dioxide and Iron oxide. Clear correlation. Opadry is a company that big pharma uses for psychiatric meds. I suggest doing a lot of research. I took copious amounts of hyxrooxyzine HCL as reccomended for anxiety for over 1 month and developed schitzophrenia. Very clear correlation and and buildup in symptoms. Metal induced schitzophrenia can be removed completely if caught right away. Solution: -Copious amounts of vitamin C (liposomal is best) combined with MSM (2,000mg) -Drink tons of water and exercise to sweat to excrete wastes -Sauna or steam room or sweat toxins -Dr. Christopher’s blood stream formula (first school of natural medicine in the western United States) used to treat for heavy metal poisoning. -Dr. Schulze potent detox herbs -frequent Epsom salt baths in distilled water -Cilantro and Chlorella (very powerful removing heavy metal poisoning) concentrated tincture -Vitamin B12, Vitamin B1, folic acidic. Neuroprotective. Chia seeds, hemp seeds, flax oil, neuro nourishing. -Vitamin C injection if severe -Eat only organic foods, lots of vegetables, fruits. Organic blueberries are high in anti-oxidants. -Eat balance amount of fats. Chia seeds, non-lignan flax oil, hemp seeds are most effective. Fats are very important for brain health. -Drink tons of water. Reverse osmosis or distilled water with trace minerals added, spring water is OK. -Tap water is Southern California is hard and municipal water supply contains toxic chemicals -Culligan charcoal water filter attaches to vitamin C filter (found on amazon) -Ginger, Tumeric with food -Chinese medicine doctor, Naturopathic doctor ND, DO, for herbs.Read More Read Less

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Anonymous |
4/27/2020
Condition: Other
Overall rating 1.0
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This was given to my son without the psychiatrist researching interactions and/or side effects. Wondering if I should sue the pharmaceutical company or the prescribing doctor??

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Bartoothniak | 55-64 | Male | On medication for 5 to less than 10 years |
12/10/2019
Condition: Other
Overall rating 1.0
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Zyprexa caused seizures and convulsions for me after taking it for three years. I took the smallest dose during this time. The first two years were ok. When this medication takes over it WILL destroy your life. It should be discontinued as a medicine.

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Ark | 25-34 | Male | On medication for 1 to 6 months | Caregiver
6/6/2019
Condition: Schizophrenia
Overall rating 3.7
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The side effect of weight increasing is very common as informed by the Doctor. Worried as I see my son who is on this medicine has increased weight.

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Sue | 45-54 | On medication for less than 1 month | Patient
1/11/2019
Condition: Additional Medications to Treat Depression
Overall rating 5.0
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I had been taking Cymbalta an antidepressant for depression and anxiety symptoms. The Cymbalta was working well but I would still have occasional flare-ups of depression and anxiety with racing thoughts and repetitive thoughts when certain situations would arise. This additional medication started working immediately on the smallest dos. It does make me sleepy but my racing thoughts and repetitive thoughts are gone after just 2 days and now I'm on my fifth day. this is an absolute Lifesaver for me. My head is clear I can concentrate and my mood is even more positive and elevated. with the addition of this medication I will probably even be able to back down a little bit oh my Cymbalta dose. I feel like the self That I Used to Be 30 years ago before I got sick. for me this is been a miracle drug. I pray for the people that struggle the way I have that this will work just as well for them.Read More Read Less

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Adam roberts | 25-34 | Male | On medication for 5 to less than 10 years | Patient
8/20/2018
Condition: Bipolar Disorder in Remission
Overall rating 1.0
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Olanzapine is responsible for turning my life from worse to very worse. Trade in medicine I advise patients with schizoaffective disorder to not to give it caused me Hallucination deep anxiety dizziness due to oleanseptin Dizziness Increase in weight Pain in the body Deep sleep Poor concentration I lost 6 years of age I am a victim of olanzapine from the dark side

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