Posted by pwagg on July 8, 2001, at 12:49:44
In reply to Olanzapine - any stories??, posted by NikkiT2 on July 4, 2001, at 14:58:52
> I've had my risperidone stopped and moved onto olanzapine to stop the "wierd shit" in my head (not voices, just thoughts I guess)... not heard much about it, so any info would be fab!
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> Ta
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> Nikki x
You can read an article I wrote when I first started taking olanzapine (Zyprexa) in 1996 at the Schizophrenia.com website but I'll reiterate it here: it saved my life. No, actually it gave me back a life worth saving. I never realized what a world there was out there until this drug came along, never knew how much I was missing, until I started taking Zyprexa. Then not much more than ten days later, I "came to," almost as if I were a patient in that movie with Robin Williams, "Awakenings". I could read books I hadn't been able to read for years, I could pay attention to and watch TV, even the news without being paranoid, I could go places, do things, in short it really and truly was the miracle drug people talked of these new drugs sometimes being... Yes, I know this is not the case for everyone. More often than not the benefits are more subtle. So while I'd caution you not to expect a miracle, sometimes they do happen.
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