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Bob_Johnson
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Zyprexa (olanzapine)--follow-up report
« on: Aug 21st, 2002, 6:48am » |
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Looks like I'm coming out of the present cycle and now have more experience about this new abortive treatment (posted another message a few day ago).
I used Imitrex nasal spray on some attacks and Zyprexa on others. Both worked effectively in 20-minutes but, given the cost difference, planning to continue with Zyprexa for future cycles.
The disadvantage with the spray is that I have heavy nasal discharge during many attacks and that blocks the action of the spray.
5mg is starting dose for Zyprexa. Use 10mg for subsequent attacks if this not sufficient.
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Re: Zyprexa (olanzapine)--follow-up report
« Reply #1 on: Aug 27th, 2002, 12:14pm » |
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Does Zyprexa not render you unconsious 2 hrs after taking? It sure did me! And took 2-3 hours to resurface the next day. It'll get ya thru the night, but I gotta work for a living. If you can call having CH living...
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Re: Zyprexa (olanzapine)--follow-up report
« Reply #2 on: Aug 27th, 2002, 1:15pm » |
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I had no sedation or any side effect. In 20-minutes the cluster quickly stopped and that was it.
What dose did you take? Anything more than 10mg would be excessive unless you had worked up to it via a series of attacks, using 5 or 10mg.
Were you taking other medications at the same tme? Could be some interaction. If not, then we can only write it off to individual variation in response--something which cannot be predicted.
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Re: Zyprexa (olanzapine)--follow-up report
« Reply #3 on: Aug 27th, 2002, 10:00pm » |
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I dunno about anybody else, but I would welcome being rendered unconscious. Of course, I have no job and no real obligations. I can understand the objections of people who have actual lives.
Where do I sign up?
Glad this regimen is working for you, Bob. So nice to hear success stories!
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Re: Zyprexa (olanzapine)--follow-up report
« Reply #4 on: Aug 27th, 2002, 10:37pm » |
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Bob, dude! Unbelievable! My neuro (last year's) prescribed Zyprexa to help me sleep while taking Zomig. I was breaking 10mg pills into QUARTERS and it was still kicking my keister! It even says "if necessary at bedtime for sleep" on the freakin' bottle! I took it at suppertime and by 9 M I was in the ozone. We gotta be from different planets...I can tell ya, the beast never woke me up when I was taking it.
Hey Kilo, not to pry or anything, but are you like independently wealthy or something? I'd like to not work, but I keep getting these 379 monthly statements in the mail... ;D
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« Reply #5 on: Aug 28th, 2002, 1:44am » |
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gtar_man:
Well, not independently wealthy but close--living on SSDI for a totally unrelated medical condition. Last year I got a $17 cost of living raise! 
Hoping I can work again someday, but the govbots say I am "permanently and totally disabled." I guess if there's anybody that knows about futility, it's the federal government, eh?
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Re: Zyprexa (olanzapine)--follow-up report
« Reply #6 on: Aug 28th, 2002, 3:19pm » |
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Yeah, and speaking of the gov, they keep sending me these estimates of what I'll draw in soc security when I retire from a fund that'll be dry as Osama's socks by then. Futility, indeed!
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