User Reviews for Zyprexa oral

Weight gain was a killer!!

Used for mild intermittent agitation and maybe depression. Do not know if there is any effect at alll as I was also taken off 3,other meds. Weight gain is significant.

I suffered Schizophrenia symptoms ever since i knew myself.I struggled with those psychotic thoughts until i was 37yrs old, i finally told a psychiatrist while being treated for anxiety. Together with Paxil he gave me Zyprexa.This Zyprexa i used for approx. 6 months and diminished all those psychotic thoughts, made me sleep better and wakeup feeling wonderful. Side effects, it worsen my diabetes and i gained 20 pounds

its very good . but once you start taking it you cant stop with out help . but its did me great.

This med made me pass out 4 times in 8 months and once I broke 3 ribs and punctured a lung and was hospitalized, it caused weight gain, drooling, made me emotionally flat, I hardly talked. As I also take a blood-thinner it's too dangerous for me to pass out and fall so I stopped taking it.

i was put on this drug after being placed on an EEO by police. Several weeks later i suffered a full blown psychotic episode. i have never had a mental illness but now after the episode and two and a half years in a high secure mental institution and several different diagnosis I'm told i have bipolar. It has completly destroyed my life.Please help.

Husband had involuntary mouth movements and tongue rolling. Husband is deceased , cause of death was pneumonia and heart, liver failure. This came on quite suddenly.

Since using Zyprexa, I have been diagnosed with BHP & type 2 diabetes. I am positive it is the drug that has caused the problems. I have since been put on Duodart for the BPH and have developed gynocomastia. I'm on a merry go round. Please help!

This drug has kept my mother lucid;she's ninty years of age. She also takes aircept,but with zyrexa she has been able to talk clearly and understandably. Since the doctor has taken her off Zprexa, she holds her mouth open, she has become forgetful,sometime she doesn't know the difference between night & day. She's sleeping more. I'm very disappointed that the doctor took her off of it.

This medication has really helped my depression and mood disorder. The only side effect has been weight gain...I've gained 20 pounds in the three months I've been on it. Bleh.

Its been over ten years since I finally got off Zyprexa It was at one of the worst times in my life, with a number of psychological symptoms, including a lack of creativity, muted sense of being able to think in general; I couldn't even think of things to talk about to anyone, especially strangers. My psychiatrist tried stopping this medication, but when this happened I had a certain mental reaction, with confusion in a part of my brain. Finally I was able to get off Zyprexa, dropping it for Abilify, which at that time was being prescribed in large dosages, which was miserable (I've used Ability in the past few years, on a much lower dosage, which helped for awhile, but then wasn't effective), eventually I got off that by taking myself off against medical advice. But the thing I noticed was that once I was off Zyprexa, my creativity improved dramatically and my life became so much more settled and happy. Over the years I've talked to several medical people (including a psychiatrist), who said that my premise that Zyprexa caused me brain damage was possible. I was just going through the extra stress of having dysthymia, a lower grade depression that lasts for years, back in 1997, but eventually my mental condition deteriated to the point that I had a major breakdown psychologically that caused me to eventually lose my job, and ended with about six years of terrible stress. Maybe this was just a wrong drug for my mental illness, I don't know, but life has been tough over the years still, but with a brighter outlook. A number of antidepressants and an antipsychotic definitely helped me stablize, along with counseling.Read More Read Less

Helped depression. Causes constipation, severe weight gain.

good but it provent me from getting a job I need to stop it. what kind of problem could I have I also take zofolt this for my husband his has deprepression and bipopolar

mood stableliser

This drug has destroyed my life. Please don't take it. I've been off of it for 3 months after taking it for 8 weeks, and it takes away all of the joy in life, you won't be able to feel or communicate with people the way you used to. PLEASE DON'T TAKE THIS!!!

dep & anxiety during a rough time went to almost pyscosis for me, so taking this saved me..the weight gain was awful tho, and it did raise cholestrol..i took with zoloft..and it was a short time on Zyprexa.. but it saved me.

I suffer from clinical depression and my Doctor has prescribed this drug for me. I am not sure that I should be using this, as I do not suffer from bi-polar or schitzaphrenia. I also take 3/5mg citalopram. Please advise as to whether this is a suitable drug for my problem.

given 20 mg when admitted to treatment center having manic episode, I was also [psychotic. I used to stare out my bedroom window and watch planes go by. Noticed flying objects..Sometimes they would stop in mid -air for a minute or two., then shoot up into the atmosphere, I still believe what I saw. This drug has taken away rumination. I was sick of dwelling on thoughts or constant thinking. I am now on 10 mg, no more lithium and I feel great. The drawback is that it put 50 lbs. on me.