Posted by Meltingpot on October 22, 2009, at 5:25:20
In reply to Re: Zyprexa vs. All other Antipsychotics, posted by theconfusedone on October 19, 2009, at 0:15:17
Hi,
I just wanted to say that my experience with Zyprexa is that it is great for taking away the physical feelings of anxiety and subsequent suicidal thoughts. For instance I felt totally crap yesterday morning, I felt like I had this pressure in my chest and head that wouldn't go away no matter what I did and my thoughts became solely focused on suicide to make the feelings go away. I think also though mixed in with the anxiety are these intense feelings of anger and irritability. I think after taking the Zyprexa although the physical symptoms go away the emotions are still there to some degree.
Today although I'm feeling much better physically (energy wise and mood to some degree) it doesn't take much to make me fly off the handle.
I'm glad the Zyprexa is helping you because the physical feelings of constant anxiety are hell. I also want to add that years ago when I started trying antidepressants again and they wouldn't work and exacerbated the anxiety I needed to take 10mg of Zyprexa, there is no way 2.5mg would have worked. So perhaps you could start of high and then slowly decrease the dose.
I'm like you Seroxat worked for me for about 2 years and then stopped in that the physical feelings of anxiety and depression came back. For the two years I was feeling better on seroxat, I started having piano lessons, started going out socialising, going on holidays etc. I'd swap 20 years of feeling like this for those two years any day.
Also, re the Zyprexa you should definately take it in the evening as it will just send you to sleep during the day.
Denise
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