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(Message started by: Bob_Johnson on Aug 21^st, 2002, 6:48am)

Title: Zyprexa (olanzapine)--follow-up report
Post by Bob_Johnson on Aug 21^st, 2002, 6:48am

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.

Title: Re: Zyprexa (olanzapine)--follow-up report
Post by gtar_man on Aug 27^th, 2002, 12:14pm

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...

Title: Re: Zyprexa (olanzapine)--follow-up report
Post by Bob_Johnson on Aug 27^th, 2002, 1:15pm

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.

Title: Re: Zyprexa (olanzapine)--follow-up report
Post by Kilo on Aug 27^th, 2002, 10:00pm

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!

Kilo

Title: Re: Zyprexa (olanzapine)--follow-up report
Post by gtar_man on Aug 27^th, 2002, 10:37pm

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:PM 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

Title: Re: Zyprexa (olanzapine)--follow-up report
Post by Kilo on Aug 28^th, 2002, 1:44am

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! :o

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?

Kilo

Title: Re: Zyprexa (olanzapine)--follow-up report
Post by gtar_man on Aug 28^th, 2002, 3:19pm

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!
G-man