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horrified
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 Posted - 02/18/2008 : 14:25:09
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I took zyprexa when I was younger-for anxiety, which is an off lable use of it. I started gaining weight then, and I went from being a chubby kid to being downright obese. Not long after I stopped it, I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. I have been suffering immensly from it. Hard as I tried, I simply could not control my diabetes. My insulin resistance is terrible, I am on an insulin pump, and my A1cs have been extremely high.
I want to caution people that they should not take this terrible drug for anything less than a life threatening situation. My life is forever altered. I face this evey day of my life. Every time I eat anything, with every blood sugar test, with every shot, with every non-healing infection, with every low-blood sugar, I think of the doctor who precribed this terrible medicine. If he had said that there was a slight possibility that I would suffer in such a manner I would never have agreed. I feel cheated. Cheated by the drug company, the doctor, the FDA, and the system that allowed a young child to suffer in the ways that I did.
Parents, if you have a child on zyprexa, PLEASE look into this carefully. I wouldn't wish all this on my worst enemy.
I am in contact with a lawyer, and I am most likely going to win a whole bunch of money. I almost don't want that. Are we implying that we can measure pain and suffering, shots and fingersticks, hospital visits and doctors offices with money? All the money in the world would not take away the pain I suffered as a child, and continue to suffer.
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| clskrock
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Posted - 02/18/2008 : 19:30:04
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I took zyprexa also. I had diabetes before I started taking it. I had heard reports it did cause diabetes. I stoped taking it because it was just too sedating. I think you have cause to be angry. I hope you can find some peace.
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| Lynzerz
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Posted - 03/04/2009 : 08:21:24
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Hi Horrified,
First, I would like to say I'm sorry for what Zyprexa has done to you. :(
My brother was prescribed Zyprexa for his schizophrenia. Not long afterward, his naturally skinny frame ballooned. He suddenly fell into a diabetic coma, we had no idea he even had developed the disease. He was in a coma for two months, but he survived it. He was prescribed Zyprexa again... and for a few years we thought everything was alright. He was walking everywhere he would go ((could not drive)) and he seemed relatively healthy. Until he suddenly died, while mowing my mom's lawn for her. He was 41 years old. This was almost two years ago, and it was just yesterday that I read a Rolling Stones article called "Bitter Pill"... that I came to realize that this drug he was taking for years, was the cause. It angers me so much... so I really feel for you, and I'm just so sorry for what this drug has done. It's robbed me of my brother... and robbed my brother of living a normal, healthy existence.
As far as lawyers are concerned, I'm not even sure where to start. Any advice you have, would be wonderful. I know how you feel... what good is money anyway... if my brother is gone? But then I look at my mom struggling to pay mortgages and things... maybe taking legal action is necessary. Anyway... thanks for reading... and again I'm truly sorry for the pain Zyprexa has caused you. I just hope people read this and realize what it's doing... not a lot now, but soon the death count will be staggering and hard to ignore anymore.
Sincerely,
Lyndsay Carr
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| Chris
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Posted - 03/05/2009 : 00:17:12
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hey all,
I was given Olanzapine my second time in hospital for schizophrenia, it stabilized me when Respiradone (their first choice) didn't. I'm lucky I didn't get Diabetes but I went from 170lbs to 240lbs in less than a year, it kept me so druged out it was hard to socialize and I couldn't stop eating. I'd sleep all the time and eventually I went onto better medications. I take Seroquel now and still battle with my weight I think I'm going to have to embrace vegitarianism as a step towards finding a nutritious and healthy diet that will help me overcome my medically induced weight problems. I am truly sorry for your pains and losses money is thin compensation what I'd like to see is this drug taken off the market and new drugs found which don't have these horrible side effects. Perhaps if there was a way for others not to have to suffer like this then at least ours wouldn't be in vain. I was also told there was "a slight risk of weight gain" If I had known how much and how fast I never would have consented to that pill either I wish hospitals would use different medications first, ones with less life altering well documented side effects.
Born in the 80's,
grew up in the 90's,
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| Garysh
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