Would Zyprexa work where others have failed?

dbx wrote:I was put on Zyprexa, after trying out Risperdal and Abilify and couldn't stand them, but after taking it for 4 and a half months, it had no effect on my condition.

The only effect it had was adding some kilo's to my skinny body which was a good thing for me because I can't naturally gain weight due to my body burning everything very fast. After I stopped it, I returned to my previous skinny state :/

I´m currently on abilify, among 7 other things. also tried risperdal but gave me horrible back pain.

vinceh4 wrote:I tried it. The doc had me on trazadone for chronic insomnia, until I built up a tolerance and was taking 300mg a night. Zyprexa did absolutly nothing for me, sleep wise.

ah sorry to hear that. What dose zyprexa were you on?

Jeez, it's a bit shocking to see the list of medication that you take. I think that it's actually ridiculous and that no-one should ever have to manage such an amount of drugs. It's no wonder that you've begun to self-medicating. What's surprising too is that your doctors apparently know about your self-medicating and don't haul your ass in to get it sorted.

Just, watch yourself, okay? My ex girlfriend had to get her stomach pumped too because she took 70+ tablets of something. She was trying to kill herself though.

Kevin

Chucky wrote:Jeez, it's a bit shocking to see the list of medication that you take. I think that it's actually ridiculous and that no-one should ever have to manage such an amount of drugs. It's no wonder that you've begun to self-medicating. What's surprising too is that your doctors apparently know about your self-medicating and don't haul your ass in to get it sorted.

Just, watch yourself, okay? My ex girlfriend had to get her stomach pumped too because she took 70+ tablets of something. She was trying to kill herself though.

Kevin

Thank you for your concern Kevin. I was institutionalised in may-june for 38 days last year, for 2 weeks in 2007 before that.

I have a lot of comorbid diagnoses so you can guess how it goes, add this for that, that for this, and it ends up in a big load of meds. I´m just pissy that even with so much medecine i still feel like crap most of the time.

abilify for the psychosis, seroquel to sleep, effexor for depression and panick attacks, mirtazapina as a sleep aid and anti depressant, oxcarbazepine as a mood stabilizer, lyrica for generalised anxiety, deazepam for anxiety and panick attacks in SOS.

When I had my stomach pumped the docs at the ER wanted to bring me back into the psych hospital but I didn´t want that and somehow my doctor also didn´t pursue it.

My psychologists shes actualy prety concerned more so than my psychiatrist. At least it seems that way.

I don´t know where all this ends, but i hope in the next month i cna raise the lyrica to therapeutic levels, feel better and stop cheating on my meds.

Sorry to hear about your girlfriend trying to take her life I also dealt with two suicide attempts in 1996, landed me in ICU in a coma :/

AnonymouslyMe wrote:

dbx wrote:I was put on Zyprexa, after trying out Risperdal and Abilify and couldn't stand them, but after taking it for 4 and a half months, it had no effect on my condition.

The only effect it had was adding some kilo's to my skinny body which was a good thing for me because I can't naturally gain weight due to my body burning everything very fast. After I stopped it, I returned to my previous skinny state :/

I´m currently on abilify, among 7 other things. also tried risperdal but gave me horrible back pain.

I can't stand Abilify. I still have a half pack of it but whenever I take it, it just drives me crazy, like it makes me wanna jump around and punch everything. It's like something itches in your brain but you can't scratch it

dbx wrote:

AnonymouslyMe wrote:

dbx wrote:I was put on Zyprexa, after trying out Risperdal and Abilify and couldn't stand them, but after taking it for 4 and a half months, it had no effect on my condition.

The only effect it had was adding some kilo's to my skinny body which was a good thing for me because I can't naturally gain weight due to my body burning everything very fast. After I stopped it, I returned to my previous skinny state :/

I´m currently on abilify, among 7 other things. also tried risperdal but gave me horrible back pain.

I can't stand Abilify. I still have a half pack of it but whenever I take it, it just drives me crazy, like it makes me wanna jump around and punch everything. It's like something itches in your brain but you can't scratch it

That sounds like Akathisia. I had that to some degree with risperdal. not fun to be sure Abilify is supposed to be better, newer-better heh at least thats whats suppose to be. but we all react diferent to all these meds.

I've only ever taken one drug of this nature, called Lexapro. I took it for 4+ years but have recently come off it (again). AnonymouslyMe, I'm still just - ummm - dumbfounded as to how much stuff you're taking each day. I mean, it really cannot be helpful; and I'm sure that those drugs are interacting with each other in your stomach to become either useless or damaging to your health. If I were you, I'd have a serious talk with the doctor about reducing the amount of drugs you're taking.

Kevin

My personal experience with Risperdal was that half an hour after I take it, I become a zombie and so sleepy that I just need to go in my bed. My movements also become slower, or maybe they don't but it appears to me that way.

Chucky wrote:I've only ever taken one drug of this nature, called Lexapro. I took it for 4+ years but have recently come off it (again). AnonymouslyMe, I'm still just - ummm - dumbfounded as to how much stuff you're taking each day. I mean, it really cannot be helpful; and I'm sure that those drugs are interacting with each other in your stomach to become either useless or damaging to your health. If I were you, I'd have a serious talk with the doctor about reducing the amount of drugs you're taking.

Kevin

I know what you are saying, but before i was on all these meds i was realy ###$ up. I just wanted to die, the pain was so intense, the panick attacks so severe, I was actualy hearing voices and having other psychotic episodes and a bunch of other crap.

The medecines work synergeticaly. But yes it can´t be good for the health... :/

Thanks for your concern Kevin

dbx wrote:My personal experience with Risperdal was that half an hour after I take it, I become a zombie and so sleepy that I just need to go in my bed. My movements also become slower, or maybe they don't but it appears to me that way.

Risperdal is sedating, that´s why that happened, abilify is not sedating at all on the other hand. Zyprexa and seroquel are even more sedating.

I´m very resistant to the sedating effects, I was on 6 or 8mg can´t recall exactly, of risperdal and I could function.