Zyprexa Side Effects

• drowsiness
• dizziness
• restlessness
• unusual behavior
• depression
• difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep
• weakness
• difficulty walking
• constipation
• weight gain
• dry mouth
• pain in arms, legs, back, or joints
• breast enlargement or discharge
• late or missed menstrual periods
• decreased sexual ability

• seizures
• changes in vision
• swelling of the arms, hands, feet, ankles, or lower legs
• unusual movements of your face or body that you cannot control
• sore throat, fever, chills, and other signs of infection
• very stiff muscles
• excess sweating
• fast or irregular heartbeat
• rash
• hives
• difficulty breathing or swallowing
• levels of fats in blood to increase
• liver problems
• extreme weight gain

Warnings & Recalls for Zyprexa

• Tell your doctor if you’re allergic to olanzapine, which is the active ingredient in Zyprexa.
• Be sure to tell your doctor what prescriptions and nonprescription medications your taking including vitamins and supplements.  Be sure to state that you take antidepressants; antihistamines; carbamazepine (Tegretol); dopamine agonists such as bromocriptine (Parlodel), cabergoline (Dostinex), levodopa (Dopar, Larodopa), pergolide (Permax), and ropinirole (Requip); fluoroquinolone antibiotics including ciprofloxacin (Cipro), gatifloxacin (Tequin) (not available in the United States), levofloxacin (Levaquin), norfloxacin (Noroxin), ofloxacin (Floxin), others; fluvoxamine (Luvox); ipratropium (Atrovent); medications for anxiety, high blood pressure, irritable bowel disease, mental illness, motion sickness, Parkinson's disease, seizures, ulcers, or urinary problems; omeprazole (Prilosec); rifampin (Rifadin); sedatives; sleeping pills; ticlopidine (Ticlid); and tranquilizers. Your doctor might have to change your dosage accordingly with your drug regimen.
• Be sure to tell your doctor about any sort of illicit drug use and prescription abuse.
• Tell your doctor if you’ve had a stroke, a mini-stroke, heart disease or a heart attack, an irregular heartbeat, seizures, breast cancer, any condition that makes it difficult for you to swallow, high or low blood pressure, a high level of fats (cholesterol and triglycerides) in your blood, a low number of white blood cells, liver or prostate disease, paralytic ileus (condition in which food cannot move through the intestine); glaucoma (an eye condition), or high blood sugar, or if you or anyone in your family has or has ever had diabetes.  If you’ve ever had severe vomiting, diarrhea or signs of dehydration now or if they will have developed during taking Zyprexa, be sure to mention it to your doctor.
• Be sure to tell your doctor if you’ve ever had to stop taking a prescription for a mental illness due to adverse effects.
• Be sure to tell your doctor if you plan on pregnancy or are pregnant as Zyprexa can cause problems in newborns after delivery if its taken during the few months of pregnancy.
• Do not drink alcohol while taking Zyprexa.
• Cigarette smoking may reduce the effectiveness of Zyprexa.
• Tell your doctor if you exercise, as body temperatures have an effect on the use of Zyprexa.
• Tell your doctor if you have phenylketonuria.

Zyprexa Treatment and Use

Zyprexa  | Olanzapine is a drug that is prescribed to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in adults and teenagers 13 years of age and older.  Its drug classification is that of an antipsychotic and works by changing the activity of certain substances in the human brain.  It comes in a orally-disintegrating tablet in a foil.  Olanzapine was first formulated by Eli Lilly & Co., but has gone generic in 2011.  Sales of Zyprexa in the US in 2008 was $2.2 billion.  It can be used concurrently with lithium, valproate, and fluoxetine.  Zyprexa has been proven effective in preventing psychosis.

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