Where can I find more information on the deaths associated with Zyprexa? I was recently prescribed Zyprexa after a lengthy stay in a mental health facility. Zyprexa was a god send to me then, when no other medication would deliver me from a horrific manic episode.

I agree that we as patients should be vigilant when considering the safety of our medication. However, it is such a double edged sword. Without the drug that lacks a sure footed safety record, I would still be in the hospital.

But, now of course, I'm a little freaked out about this news. ;-)

never mind on getting me the info on the deaths cited . . . I found it all . . .looking like I can look forward to losing my girlish figure

I'm far to vain to gain an extra 100 pounds . . .time to find some new meds

Eli Lilly ZYPREXA LIES!

Zyprexa off label promotion scandal is all over the news now.
Lilly drug reps are alleged to have called their marketing ploy,"Viva zyprexa".

Eli Lilly zyprexa cost me over $250.00 a month supply out of my own pocket X 4 years and has up to ten times the risk (over non users) of causing diabetes and severe weight gain.

Zyprexa which is only FDA approved for schizophrenia (.5-1% of pop) and some bipolar (2% pop) and then an even smaller percentage of theses two groups.
So how does Zyprexa get to be the 7th largest drug sale in the world?
Eli Lilly is in deep trouble for using their drug reps to 'encourage' doctors to write zyprexa for non-FDA approved 'off label' uses.

The drug causes increased diabetes risk,and medicare picks up all the expensive fallout.There are now 7 states (and counting) going after Lilly for fraud and restitution.
I was ordered to take it beginning in 1996 for my PTSD for 4 years more,it was useless for my symptoms.Lesson learned...you shouldn't give a major tranquilizer like zyprexa which makes you 'sleepy' to a hyper-vigilant patient.

There is a clinical difference between hyper-vigilant and harmful aggression.
Only 9 percent of adult Americans think the pharmaceutical industry can be trusted right around the same rating as big tobacco.


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Daniel Haszard zyprexa-victims.com

Zyprexa fucked up my daughter's brain, end of story. Once on it, she could never go off. The doctor told her at a very young age, "you are lucky to live now, because Zyprexa is so new, if you lived in 'the old days' all you would have been able to take is Lithium."

I say to anyone who releases internal documents for the good of the public gets my thanks.

The first drug in a local county psych ward given to agitated patients upon admit is Zyprexa Zydis. Dissolves under the tongue, nice and smooth. How do I know? First hand on-site experience. Zyprexa is here to stay in the State and County facilities in Washington state. They have a contract for it.
No wonder there are so many "revolving door patients". Maybe the attorneys down at mental health court that complain so much about "revolving door patients" should chart what medications these clients/patients are on. Maybe then their own workload could be reduced.
There are more than doctors who need to stand up and speak out with honesty.
Caseworkers. Attorneys in public defense teams. Judges. Nurses. General staff. Directors of hospitals. Parents. Teachers. Need I say more?

I read the Drugging of the American Mind article and suddenly feel like my struggle for the last year has been normalized. Thank god. But that's the catch, it also means that that frustration is going to continue. I keep breaking through with terrible bouts of insomnia that lead to what I term "nasty mania"...all of the serated edges of mania none of the heady, glittery stuff that I had before I started meds. I've been taking Zyprexa for a PRN since I left the hospital earlier this year. It puts me into oblivion. I keep thinking that something is wrong with me, that I'm at fault for not getting better, for not being "stable" for more than a month or two at a time. I keep waiting for something to give. But, its not that is it? Its the nature of the beast (which I'm still learning) and the nature of our meds...which are less than ideal.

The fault is in the doctors who pretend mental illness is a brain chemical imbalance. There is no test for any brain chemical imbalance.
Once the patient takes or is forced to take psych.medicine THEN there is a real brain chemical imbalance.
Speaking out against the drug co. and psychiatry is dangerous. Psychiatry can jail and drug or ECT you against your will .Drug Co makes Billions every year and wants to continue to make that money.
People in positions of power and authority want to keep their power/etc and have no reason to rock the boat.In 1900 1 in 350 people was crazy today its 1 in 50
soon to be 1 in 10 as at least 10% of all N. American children are on ADD drugs.
Society shall reap what it sows

Not to burst all your bubbles, but in Australia our medical professionals do actually advise on the risk of Zyprexa prior to treatment with it and dealing with depression, BPD and schizophrenia are difficult enough in itself. I have been taking Zyprexa for two months now and for the first time in 5 years I don't have psychotic symptoms. Maybe instead of just relying on medical professionals you should do some of your own due dilligence and look at sites such as www.crazymeds.org who also list the potential harms of the drug. For a lot of us, this medication has saved our lives (and before I get flamed, no I don't work for a drug corporation, I am just a sufferer of Borderline Personality Disorder who has actually received from long sought after peace from this drug). In summary, theres always the other side of the story. No drug taking is without consequence, prescription or otherwise, but I know I'd rather have to watch my sugar intake, exercise every day and be ABLE to do these things with the help of Zyprexa.

Ryan, you might have been advised in Australia but I wasn't! I've been taking Zyprexa for three weeks and gained 3.5kg's. I'm on a diet, I wonder if it will work. I read of the side effects in the box but I must admit it is a godsend for me but now i'm worried about the deaths and diabetes etc.

i am taking zyprexa for more than 10 jears i have boren its only getting worse can anybody help me because i dont know whats happening with me its like im getting scizofrenic of these medinines.i am afraid because i cant do my toilets now im taking lax for more than 2 months i was 75 kg now in 1 week i lost 15 kg.dont know whats happening

My 16 yr old daughter became a scheduled patient in australia and she is being injected with Zyprexa 5mg on top of 20mg oral dose daily. Few doctors know that injecting loads the blood 5x more than oral which would therefore amount to an illegal dosage. On top of that she has 2 drugs. Her initial problem was akathesia bought on by Tegretol when she had epilepsy.The MIMS manual 2005 says Zyprexa hasn't been studied in effects and safety on kids under 18yrs and caution with epileptics and if there is a family history of breast cancer not to be used (this applies to my daughter). It is a neurotoxin.You read the side effects in the US documents as the Oz warnings are slimmer-side effects add up to psychosis and she spends her days delerious and sick.
When psychiatry turned biological it was tragic for my daughter - the drug companies wrote the Mental Health Act.

In February 2007, the Proceddings of the National Academy of Sciences identified the Histamine 1 receptor as a major factor for the development of weight gain in atypical antipsychotic users (zyprexa, being one of these drugs).The Atypical antipsychotics, risperdal, zyprexa and clozaril block this receptor; zyprexa and clozaril block it rather substantially. Most likely, though not confirmed scientifically, histamine 1 receptor blockading could further account for hyperglycemia and diabetes development in some of the patients that use this drug.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins additionally found that AMPK levels were quadrupled in the hypothalamus as a result of taking some of these three atypical antipsychotics.AMPK is the master switch that regulates many of the body's internal metabolic functions including insulin sensitivity, glucose transport functions and lipogenesis functions to name a few. Most likely hyperglycemia found in people that use these drugs
will be associated with the abnormal levels of AMPK. Interestingly, in research, leptin based therapeutics were successful in returning AMPK levels back to normal in mice that were given the atypical antipsychotics. Leading to the possibility that a leptin based drug for humans could be developed in the future for alleviating the irreversible hyperglycemic conditions found in atypical antipsychotic users.That is a scientific venue that could be developed and come to medicinal fruition in the few years ahead, potentially, with some luck of some savvy researchers in the field. Nevertheless, Solomon Snyder of Johns Hopkins conducted this original research found in the PNAS literature and a researcher by the name of Meltzer
wrote a more comprehensive commentary on the issue. For additional information on this research, one should go to the following web site article, titled: "Atypical Antipsychotics Activate Hypothalamic AMPK", Elizabeth M. Adler Science's STKE. More extensive information detailing the specifics of this research can be found in this article.