After that I overtook the resposerbility of buying grosery to my mom from my brother 2 month ago she has already lost one stone. So with the right foods you can master weightloss on zyprexa.
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Doc has stopped oleaz as of now and increased arip to 20 my used to be on 15 and 2.5 oleaz
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You are so right! There are lots of positives about olanzapine and lots of success stories. But people only tend to post when they’re having a bad time with it.
I take 30 mg. I have actually lost weight overall. I sleep very well. My mood is good. It helps my positive symptoms, such as hardly no voices each day etc.
I first tried it in the hospital but I stopped it on my own stupidly because I was afraid of weight gain. I truly regret not just staying on it. I lost so many years. At 40 I’m just starting my life with a better and more sane mind. I am sad I lost so much of my life to SZ. But I am going to make the best of this and live a good life from now on.
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Dear plant lady just like you I lost years of my life to one meds that worsened my condition so much and now at age 53 I restart my life on a very well balanced mixture of meds. Just like you I fought against weight gain from one of them namely seroquel. I went up and down and got really never stable. Now I’m on the right dose which is 600 mgs seroquel and I don’t gain nor do I loose weight and I watch what I’m eating. I myself once was on Zyprexa 30 mgs by mouth but it stopped working so I was put on the LAI i have used.now for 26 years. My mother was put on Zyprexa 3 years ago and it has helped her sooo muchhh. only side effects she’s got is constipation but shes also on a fairly high dose of Zyprexa namely 35 mgs by mouth and after all she’s 77 years old.
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Hello there @columbus
I am sorry you have had similar struggles with lost time because of wrong medications or wrong doses of them. I understand! I’m glad you have the LAI now and the seroquel, and that they are good for you.
I’m glad too for your mother who is doing well on 35 mg of olanzapine. That is wonderful that it helps her so much! It is a great medication. I take 30 mg daily.
Take care!
I hope that everything goes your way. And I’ll pray for that you will avoid any complications on your new meds combo and thst you’ll just feel better and better every day you are on your new combo.
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Strange we almost got similar stories. I always thought that increasing the dose from 5 mg to 10 mg would make me emotionally numb and physically fat. But the opposite happened, i got more energy, enough to start to exercise and during the last week i lost 2 stones.
I wish, like you, that i have started before, i too lost a lot of years, but i tend to look at it like “don’t cry over spilt milk” and instead focusing on all the good things i’m able to do now.
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