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Posted by Mary GG on June 14, 2016, at 14:22:29
I started Zyprexa last night for treatment resistant depression. I took only one dose, 2.5 mg and I am TERRIFIED. HAS ANYONE ELSE EXPERIENCED THIS? I am aware this has to build up in your system and I am aware this is an incredibly low dose but my body is telling my otherwise.
I woke up so dizzy could barely make it to the bathroom. I have that feeling of brain shocks that we often experience when withdrawing from certain meds. I have been uncontrollably sobbing for over 7 hours now. Every time I turn my head I can feel the fuzziness in my brain. This feels like horrible withdrawal but I am not withdrawing from anything.My history with meds is that I am UNBELIEVABLY sensitive to everything. Everything. I experience side effects on levels that most people never dream of. My doctor very carefully weens me on and off medication because I am so sensitive but she refuses to believe this is from one dose of Zyprexa.
I have been under the care of psychiatrists for 20 years. Side effects are just part of what we deal with But I have never taken an atypical antipsychotic before. After sobbing and shaking for hours I took two Xanax to regulate my breathing and it calmed down a bit. The nightmares that I had were like nothing I have ever experienced. I use Xanax for anxiety and have never had nightmares let alone the horror I just experienced.
I am so scared and upset. I had a friend come over for 4 hours this morning because I could barely walk to the bathroom the shocks in my brain were so bad.
I am constantly told by doctors they've never heard of a patient having the intense responses I do to medication but that doesn't help me. It makes me like even more of a freak of nature and I need support.
I hope my post make sense because I am out if I can barely think straight. I suppose my main question is has anyone had immediate side effects from Zyprexa? How long will this last? I cannot drive to appointment tomorrow if I'm still like this. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. I am so scared and alone.
Posted by ClearSkies on June 14, 2016, at 15:12:06
In reply to Only one dose of Zyprexa, HORRIBLE SIDE EFFECTS, posted by Mary GG on June 14, 2016, at 14:22:29
Hello,
I had an adverse reaction to Zyprexa as well. From the first pill of the tapered dosages I had to take I knew this was poison to me.My brain zaps were not as severe as yours, but I thought I was going to die.
I am OK, no ill effects (I think).
Posted by Christ_empowered on June 14, 2016, at 17:05:05
In reply to Only one dose of Zyprexa, HORRIBLE SIDE EFFECTS, posted by Mary GG on June 14, 2016, at 14:22:29
neuroleptics/tranquilizers/"anti-psychotics" aren't for everyone. This is why many people are forced to take them via long acting injection.
I hope you can find something tolerable that helps.
Posted by Horse on June 14, 2016, at 22:48:23
In reply to Only one dose of Zyprexa, HORRIBLE SIDE EFFECTS, posted by Mary GG on June 14, 2016, at 14:22:29
You're certainly not alone. I've tried a number of them, and they've only made me miserable or worse with the exception of risperidone, which at a micro dose did help at the time. I won't take them anymore, and fortunately my illness does not require them either.
Btw, welcome :)
Posted by Horse on June 14, 2016, at 22:53:50
In reply to Only one dose of Zyprexa, HORRIBLE SIDE EFFECTS, posted by Mary GG on June 14, 2016, at 14:22:29
Hey, how are you feeling (I see this was written today)?
There won't be lingering side effects, and you should be fine to drive tomorrow, although you gave yourself an awful case of nerves.
Feel better.
Posted by Mary GG on June 14, 2016, at 23:32:36
In reply to Re: Only one dose of Zyprexa, HORRIBLE SIDE EFFECTS » Mary GG, posted by Horse on June 14, 2016, at 22:53:50
Thank you from the bottom of my heart to the people that responded. The dizziness and brain shocks have lessened and I am able to slowly walk around my apartment now but I have had more panic attacks and sobbing spells throughout the course of today than I have had in my 20 year struggle. Quite frankly it felt I took a pro-psychotic, not an antipsychotic. I am afraid to fall back asleep right now because the nightmares I experienced today were absolutely terrifying. I have been on what feels like every medication on earth and never gone through anything like this. I will see my psychiatrist in the morning after literally begging and pleading with her staff all day(completely separate issue). I have a close friend driving me to my appointment tomorrow. If tomorrow is anything like today was I will willingly admit myself to a hospital because I simply cannot manage this on my own and I refuse to have my parents go through the horror burying their child.
And again THANK YOU ALL for taking the time to respond. It means more to me than I can express.
Posted by Lou Pilder on June 15, 2016, at 7:31:08
In reply to Re: Only one dose of Zyprexa, HORRIBLE SIDE EFFECTS, posted by Mary GG on June 14, 2016, at 23:32:36
> Thank you from the bottom of my heart to the people that responded. The dizziness and brain shocks have lessened and I am able to slowly walk around my apartment now but I have had more panic attacks and sobbing spells throughout the course of today than I have had in my 20 year struggle. Quite frankly it felt I took a pro-psychotic, not an antipsychotic. I am afraid to fall back asleep right now because the nightmares I experienced today were absolutely terrifying. I have been on what feels like every medication on earth and never gone through anything like this. I will see my psychiatrist in the morning after literally begging and pleading with her staff all day(completely separate issue). I have a close friend driving me to my appointment tomorrow. If tomorrow is anything like today was I will willingly admit myself to a hospital because I simply cannot manage this on my own and I refuse to have my parents go through the horror burying their child.
> And again THANK YOU ALL for taking the time to respond. It means more to me than I can express.Mary GG,
You wrote,[...more panic attacks and crying spells...the nightmares..terrifying...can not manage this...the horror burying their child...].
Be not deceived. The drugs you are taking are not medicines, for they do not treat a disease or cure. They are chemicals used in insecticides, rat poison and making dyes and military weapons of mass destruction and to commit mass-murder. Thousands of people are killed by these drugs each and every month. More are maimed and receive life-ruining conditions from them and worse, they cause addiction so that you have to do something after you are have taken the drug to offset the addiction and other ruining conditions. This cause you to return to the panderer of the drugs with a certificate from their government to kill you or addict you or give you a lifetime of misery.
What good will it do you to try all the drugs and loose your own life? I have come here to give people their lives back. I am prohibited by the owner here to post what could save your life and restore you to a new life of peace and joy. This would come from a Jewish perspective as revealed to me that Mr. Hsiung prohibits me to post here. but you could have dialog with me to bring this out.
If you decide to do that, there are members here that will attempt to defame me which could cause you to have a decrease in respect and confidence in which I am held and could have hostile and disagreeable opinions and feelings directed into you to discard what I say. This is an old tactic used here by Mr. Hsiung to further his goals that can be deduced by reading my dialog with him here on the administrative board. By him allowing hatred to be posted against me and anti-Semitic propaganda to be seen here as being supportive by him, he thinks that his community will be improved. This could cost you your life and the lives of others as readers could be seriously misled to think that hate is supportive. This could result in hate crimes and mass-murder as readers seeing that a psychiatrist is allowing hatred toward others here as being supportive and exemplifying the Golden Rule as in his own TOS here. And he want your trust in that, for he thinks that it will be good for this community as a whole for him to do what he does against me and the Jews here. This turns my stomach, but worse, members here are still going along with him.
I want you to be free from the lies of psychiatry and have the Spirit of Truth come into you. Then you could return to the green fields that you used to know.
Lou
Posted by bleauberry on June 21, 2016, at 12:09:04
In reply to Only one dose of Zyprexa, HORRIBLE SIDE EFFECTS, posted by Mary GG on June 14, 2016, at 14:22:29
In the journey I came from, we recognize your exaggerated and/or backwards reactions to meds. I came from the Lyme world. My doctors know that pattern very well. Almost good enough to make a diagnosis all by itself if you ask me, but that's just my opinion - based on a lot believe me. At the very least, it is a clue that the problem is not your brain itself, but rather, something else within your body impacting the brain in a very negative way.
Two things can do that, learned in my journeys.
One is unsuspected undiagnosed stealth infection, lyme being way more common, possibly even epidemic, most people never even consider it. Could also be fungus or virus. Diagnose by actually treating them blindly to see which, if any, it is....rule in or rule out. Pretty easy to do.
The other is unsuspected toxin build-up. The most common culprit is amalgam fillings, leaching mercury into the body 24/7, genetics determines whether you clean it our or accumulate it. But our society is very big on aluminum, bad, plastics, bad, and for cigarette smokers cadmium, bad, and of course lead is more common than most people are aware.
Could be wrong but I your oversensitivity could be from one of the two categories - infection or toxicity, often both. Infection itself creates a ton of toxicity, very hard for the body to clean it all out - critter poop, pee, enzymes, body parts....toxicity from enzymes in a tick's saliva very potent in short circuiting human immune system....very potent agaInst the brain too....contaminated serotonin not clean serotonin, contaminated dopamine, receptors clogged by stuff, etc...
Zyprexa blocks dopamine at some receptors, but stimulates it at others, same with serotonin, also causes a release of norepinephrine, and if your adrenals aren't working perfect, then maybe adrenaline or epinephrine instead too much. (adrenals messed up most commonly by over-stress, meds, sugar issues, infection, toxicity)
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