Posted by Denise528 on June 25, 2002, at 15:14:11
In reply to Is your dx bipolar? » Denise528, posted by Bookgurl99 on June 25, 2002, at 14:45:24
Hello,
no I'm not bi-polar (I'm convinced of that). I know that the Zyprexa makes some people really tired but when I took 10mg I felt more awake and alert and my concentration was brilliant. Perhaps it was the fact that I was taking it to combat the awful agitation I was getting on the prozac. It put me to sleep really fast but I never woke up feeling tired on it.
I did feel really tired when I stopped taking it but that happens with all of the drugs I've taken.
The only thing I didn't like about the Zyprexa was that I felt too unlike myself on it.
I did ask my Psychiatrist about the diabetes and possible Tardive Dyskinia and he told me that you are only at risk of getting Diabetes if you put on loads of weight, which you are quite likely to do on Zyprexa (I constantly felt hungry), he dismissed the idea of Tardive Dsykinia, telling me that he actually put someone on it who had already got this and the drug cured him of it. However, I wastn't entirely convinced, hence the reason I don't take it all the time.
Denise
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