What happens if i stop taking zyprexa

Only then will he be able to honestly respond to the problems this poison causes. David, my intention here was to discuss the issues in a mutually respectful way and see what we could both learn. I recognize that this is your website and if my presence has become an annoyance, I will not trouble you with further posts.

John This is not my website — lots of people have input to it. Close to nothing is censored. But i personally have a sense of dismay when I see something from you appear. I thought your contribution on PSSD was highly destructive, and disingenuous as are a number of your comments. Your efforts to edit the Wikipedia page about me were wild. There has been no hint as far as I can see that you are interested in a conversation. I agree that our views are about as different as can be imagined.

I disagree with your beliefs many of them at least , and many of your actions, but believe your intentions are quite good. From my pov, that makes us opponents but not enemies. As your opinion of me is not as favorable as this and I have no desire to distress or annoy you, I will cease to post here. I appreciate and respect that you posted my comments in spite of your personal feelings. With your permission I may occassionally post a commentin response to future articles commenting on my actions.

In particular was the problem with her balance. The same thing happened to me after stopping Seroxat which I had taken for 8 years. Mine was not a spinning vertigo thing it was rocking, bobbing, a feeling of constant movement even when I was still or even seated, worse on turning my head, sometimes i feel like I have slipped on ice or something slippy on the floor but it is just a sensation.

It was and still is very debilitating and It started after stopping the drug, I also had many other symptoms but this is one which has lingered. Psychotropic drugs are mind, body and spirit altering poisons. They are spell binding and brain damaging. They are prescribed by doctors who often do not know these drugs and the harm they can cause when taken long term. Many people are prescribed many drugs at the same time in large doses They inevitably cause more harm than good and to withdraw can be a nightmare for many.

However the worst aspect of these drugs is that they are forced on many vulnerable people in real distress or people who do not conform easily — that they are prescribed for very young children, pregnant mothers and old people and that many people lose their lives because of the over prescribing of prescription drugs.

We deserve to know the truth about our prescription drugs! Came of olanzapeine few months ago after two years thought everything was fine but now all symptoms are coming back again anxiety depression voices and am afraid I will have to start taking again already falling out with friends family any advice. Did you come off olanzapine slowly? Eventually, when you are down to a tiny dose, cut up the tablets and just take one piece daily. I am coming off olanzapine and that is the stage I am at now.

If you need it, you can get it in a fluid form so that you can take a micro dose. Also, there is a lot of of information about stopping olanzapine on the internet.

Hope this helps. I am scared to death. I have tried to stop using zyprexa and find all these withdrawal symptoms to be the case. I am ruined. I wish I could sue them. Ruth, I had to give up Seroxat during pregnancy I had the terrible problems with balance and moving my head.

My doctor told me there was nothing he could do. That was 20 years ago! To make matters worse he put me back on them after birth.

I really want to get off them now, but im afraid…. When I came off seroxat it was 6 weeks before I had withdrawal, I thought I would have come off this years ago if I had known it would be so easy, then it hit me all the withdrawal symptoms and 7. I am so sorry for all the pain you have gone through Diarmuid.

My daughter had a breakdown 2 yrs ago an d I am trying to help her get off Olanzapine and Venlafaxine padt year but her anger and random violent outbursts are hard to cope with. I am determined to keep trying other routes like counselling and b vits etc for anxiety. She hasnt a single friend as the bitches she had in her past couldnt bother to care so she is isolated with me her mother most of the time.

We are ok sometimes but its heartbreaking. I feel psychiatric staff should give their drugs a try and see how they like the side effects. Hope you can find some peace in your life…take care. Has anyone here withdrawn from Zyprexa successfully? I am off it for 5 months now after 6 years of taking it and i have been diagnosed with peripheral neuropathy.

I am experiencing burning and numbness in my feet,and hands especially at night. I am struggling to understand if Zyprexa withdrawal could cause my neuropathy? I see no other reason why I am experiencing this…is anybody experiencing peripheral neuropathy from Zyprexa withdrawal as well? Please respond and please help,I am desperate!!! Many thanks. First off, to the person telling the story, I am sorry for everything that happened to you, I am glad you are doing better and I am sure you will continue to improve.

However, I am wondering why you were put on the highest dose possible of zyprexa 20mg for 9 years. Standard in the US is to start on 5mg, they even have 2. But anyway, I digress. I was on for 4 years then got off for about 1.

Then I got on for 15 months and I have been off 6 months now. I never had peripheral neuropathy, but interestingly enough, I looked it up, and I had my vitamins checked after. And I was low in magnesium, vitamin E, and thiamin vitamin b1. I was experiencing fatigue and after getting on those vitamins I felt much better. So before you assume it is diabetes or some other neuropathy, it could not hurt getting your vitamins checked. Also, for the other questions. I took standard 5 mg doses, and I never had any trouble tapering off Zyprexa.

Those are extremely difficult to get off of, I am unsure why doctors are not more aware. Understanding that lower doses might be as effective in reducing difficult behaviour was a long way off the mainstream. I believed that as well — I thought that if I felt that bad, only a big dose would help.

Maybe someone who has taken it more recently could answer that. And, your problems getting off the SSRIs et al and benzos being worse for you, confirms my belief that everyone reacts so differently. A couple of weeks feeling grim. My experience stands in stark contrast to many others — who have the most excruciating problems with venlafaxine. And I have a friend who took temazepam for 25 years, 20mg, then decided to stop. She had no physical symptoms at all — difficult for me to comprehend given the extreme withdrawal I went through when I stopped diazepam.

I guess the wide spectrum of reactions in withdrawal is one of the huge hurdles in getting a withdrawal syndrome recognised? I have been weaning off olanzapine for 12 months and have discovered taking magnesium mcg everyother day makes it go away. I also have found magnesium helpful — in the form of magnesium baths though. Magnesium deficiency causes an increase in Substance P which leads to inflammation and possibly neuropathy.

Excerpt from the following linked post: Epsom salt baths can be a well absorbed source of magnesium because skin absorption will bypass a problem of poor intestinal absorption of magnesium. Calcium tends to be preferentially absorbed by the intestines, especially when there is an imbalance in vitamin and hormone D levels and poor intestinal absorption of magnesium over time can easily lead to symptoms of magnesium deficiency.

Symptoms of magnesium deficiency are usually labeled something else by the medical profession because the problem is not obvious on lab tests until it is quite severe because the body takes more magnesium from the bones as needed up until the point where osteoporosis is severe enough to cause a shortage of stored magnesium.

Soaking in a bathtub for twenty minutes that has one cup of Epsom salt to a half full bathtub, and one teaspoon of a cooking vinegar such as apple cider vinegar to balance the alkalinity of the Epsom salt, can be a cure for a bad mood as well as various achy muscle cramps if magnesium deficiency is an underlying problem. Negative symptoms can occur if you stay in the bath too long. Excess magnesium absorption can cause loose watery stools for an entire day, not just once. A person who was deficient but who then started taking the baths regularly might start noticing the weak heart rate sooner — get out of the tub then, even if its not been twenty minutes — shower and rinse time.

I would like to contribute my experience with Olanzapine. And this is only my third day. My doctor is not much use; he seems apathetic to whether I withdraw or not.

Can you share your whole story. How are you doing now? Are you sleeping? I hope the symptoms are better now.. Please reply back.. I was on 5 mg per day for the last 2 years.. What should be my next move? Any advice would be much appreciated. My feet and hands are worst affected — and specially at night. I guess a toxicologist might be able to explain why the far bit of our bodies are worst affected?

Like a plant that starts withering at the tips of its branches or leaves? Tingling, burning, and shingles-like pain are incredibly debilitating to endure, day after day, night after night.

So you have my deepest sympathy. I think we are guinea pigs really, in terms of observing and noting the process: no one knows yet if it will get better over time but all our experiences add up to evidence in the end. You should ask to be tested for this.

Best wishes, Clare. Dear Aura, I also took Zyprexa for 6 years and it has been 5 months since my last dose. Oh man, the withdrawal was pure unadulterated hell for me. I was incredibly ill for 3 months and during these last two months my condition is still noticeably improving. Zyprexa causes an extraordinary amount of different health problems. I may never completely recover from having taken Zyprexa.

This horrible experience has caused me to lose faith in the medical profession. The makers of Zyprexa have all ready been successfully sued for over a billion dollars because of this bad drug. Instead, they change the name and hide it other drugs such as Symbyax.

When I try to wean off this drug I get burning and numbness at night. I am so sorry that I was put on this poison. It has ruined me. Is there help out there? I just want to be normal again.

I just got off zyprexa and am experiencing the burning nerve pain in chest and back spine hand and feet I had been on 2. I had gotten the fatty liver high trygliceriders weight gain and the final thing was pre diabetes.

I was not having any burning nerve pain when I got on it. I was given it for off label anxiety. The anxiety would have been better to live with than this nerve pain.

Olanzapine is the most dangerous legal drug I know about. I felt like a zombie. I insisted on getting off of it and yes — that was awful. It was hell. I thought it would never end. I was frequently suicidal and needed a lot of support to get through it. And I am so glad I pushed through. I did taper. I also had a lot of systems set up — a group chat where any contact from me whatsoever would trigger action, even if all I could do was text one letter.

Be encouraged. But if you can remind yourself that it is temporary and teach your brain not to react, that may help. It is possible and you will succeed.

Hey there how long did you take olanzapin? And how long did the withdrawal took for you,and did lorazepam work for you? I am on 9 months of olanzapin and starting to get of it pice by pice but the insomnia is killing me did you had insomnia? Thanks a lot, the first encouragement. I love the part where u want us to remind our brains it is just temporary. Nice one, i choose to believe this and hold unto it. I responded about a year ago to someone who was experiencing withdrawal symptoms from psychotropic drugs.

This lady was suffering from a variety of negative symptoms similar to the ones mentioned above. I mentioned to her that my oldest sister was diagnosed with schizophrenia and had been on psychotropic prescription drugs over a ten year period. She came to live with me when she was on the verge of her fourth nervous breakdown. Physically and mentally, she was a mess. Fortunately for us, I was in contact with a woman who had the knowledge to help her.

Carl Pheiffer. I strongly urge anyone who is having withdrawal problems to get this book. The solution is megavitamin therapy with high doses of niacin and vitamin C. It took one year to cure completely cure my sister. She has been off all pharmaceutical drugs for over thirty years and today at the age of 75 she still works 28 hours a week. Time has proved there is a solution to this problem. Larry can please help me about what you ve done to your sis to cure her schizophrenia?.

My son is schizo patient too for more than 10 years now. Thanks for your reply. Hello John, I saw your post and just wanted you to know that I got well using a vitamin protocol developed by Dr.

Abram Hoffer. You can find his book on Orthomolecular Treatment of Schizophrenia on Amazon. Over a period of several months all of my symptoms disappeared. Wishing you and your son the best of luck. After reading the comments above, I am really disgusted and saddened.

I, myself was put on a number of psychotropic medications for various traumatic life events. How strange it is to suddenly get well after years of being sick.

Of course its the drugs. And of course the medical profession will not admit it as that is what they do…prescribe drugs. How sad. Long term use of medications like Olanzapine or whatnot should be followed with the doctor prescribing being on the same dose. Try it yourself doctors! Really… for a couple of weeks.. I have a friend who is Chemist.. You know what he told me? And you know why? They have to much money.. I have seen things in mental health treatment in Norway that would make Guantanamo prisoners shit their pants!

Here police can come pick you up at night and drive you off to mental hospitals.. Who are these people? They are just shadows of themselves.. Good food? Some good words? A vacation? Meaning and purpose in life. I have met people in my life with more life experience than any newly educated doctor when it comes to mental health.. Make people read up on what your feeding down their system doctors!

Be human. I wish I could see a revolution in mental health care.. Subscribing a plane ticket to somewhere beautiful instead of poison! Like… even in the Soviet Union people who lived in Siberia would get a summer holiday somewhere sunny! Grow up! To Sally I wanna say: Thank you for sharing your story! Have a great everybody and please wake up tomorrow smiling because life is to short to waste on negativity! All psychiatrists should be shot and forced injections of antipsychotics, strapped to beds and forced into isolation.

How can these idiot doctors sleep at night???? Long story short today is my one year being off zyprexa. After last night barely sleeping and having strange things happen to me this story has given me some more hope to continue my battle. I find myself today looking on the Internet because the doctors seem to be clueless. My story began about ten years ago I was put on zyprexa, for 9 years I was on and off it as I struggled to break free of its chains.

For the most part I was on 15 mg but tapered myself down to a fraction of a 2. Yet after a year iam still expirenceing wierd symptoms but struggle with coordination and sleeping the most. I will break out in hive and itch like crazy until i take benadryl. This usually happens when my body decides to have what I describe as hot flashes. Between the headaches, hives, random itching, hot and cold, blurred vision, sleep disturbance and general fatigue I feel beat down.

I really hope it continues to get better as some days I struggle to even perform my job. Just wanted to send out a massive thanks to sally for telling her story. Seems the doctor wanted to punish me horribly for some reason. You are a hero. I was prescribed benzos and APs for over 12 years. Seven months ago, my doctor decided to cut me off valium cold turkey. What I have gone through since then is nothing but torment to the soul and body.

And guess what another doctor recently prescribed to help me get through the withdrawal? You got it. I just want to thank you for this site and all the posts. It has really helped me see I am not crazy and I need to taper off the Zyprexa quick. If all they can offer is poisons, I think I will just say No Thanks.

Susan, did you withdraw successfully? Can you share your story? I have had trouble quitting before. My third attempt has been recently, where I have cut from 5 to 2. I have been at 2. I want this stuff out of my system so badly. I was thinking of splitting one dose each week, then start splitting again.

I need reassurance…. I get horrible anxiety everytime I decrease. Good thing I quit this evil olanzapine in time. Terrible drug. I too am right in the middle NOW of olanzapine withdrawal.

I have reduced myself from 5mg right down to half a 2. I am suffering horrifically and this is the hardest challenge of my life. I am desperately seeking help for her. Too many to name. But, while tapering …maybe it was right after being completely off , she went into the hospital for what appeared to be a breakdown. She was there a week and they quickly prescribed her 90mgs of Cymbalta, 5mgs of Zyprexa, and mgs of trazodone and sent her on her way.

She has never been the same. Depressed, zoned out, major cognitive issues, obsessive thoughts, extreme anxiety, memory problems etc. After doing some research on Zyprexa and its side effects we decided to taper her from this medication first.

She is now at 2. Her anxiety is through the roof, very depressed and her whole body just shakes. Any feedback would be so helpful!! It is odd that I have found this site.

My son suffers from schitzo-affective disorder. He has been placed on 10 mg of olazapine daily. He hates the drug I believe he is trying to come off it, he is moody, tired, looks terrible, thought he had a flu.

He has gained about 5kgs in 12 months. Prior to this we have just let him be. He was self medicating with marijuana I believe he still uses the marijuana as well as the olazapine. He has suffered from delusional beliefs for years he can get very angry not dangerously so along with extreme anxiety and isolation issues.

He is 35 years old. I am very interested in the vitamin solution. Hi Jenny, maybe he could also try gluten free. Do some reading on the effects of gluten on the brain, mental health and nervous system. Some people need to be GF and Dairy Free for full benefit.

His symptoms — isolation, anxiety, tired, moody, look bad, sounds like he could be gluten intolerant or celiac to me. I was on a very large dose at times fluctuating around 15mg, 10mg, 5mg.

I also took large amounts of olanzapine to escape my reality, even though it made me feel awful. I went through phases of overwhelming fear and anxiety so would I take extra olanzapine constantly to try and combat this. I weighed about 17 stone at one point.

I dropped down to 5mg and then stopped. My withdrawal symptoms are terrible. My legs developed a terrible twitching but this has improved. My skin on my face was prickly and itchy. I still have nausea and really bad insomnia. I have also recently developed severe hypercausis. Also since stopping I have experienced disassociation on occasions. I was first diagnosed at 17 with bipolar. Then it was changed to schizoaffective disorder. At one point my psychiatrist said I could choose my diagnosis between bipolar or schizoaffective or whatever I felt was accurate.

My last psychiatric appointment I was then diagnosed as unstable mood disorder. But I now cannot tolerate it because I experience silent migraines that cause me to feel intense pain and a really rapid heart rate. I was admitted to hospital for this once.

The pain is like being skinned alive and has also felt like my head was being hit against a wall. I quit Cypralex 3 years ago while on Zyprexa and quit Zyprexa 11 months ago after a 3 months taper. I manage my pain with ginger tea and a arnica based organic solution.

I try to live a very healthy,clean live and exercise take gentle walks in the park. The diet change paid off and the symtomps are starting to dissapear and I am starting to have good and lasting windows. My sleep has improved a little but not so much… my night sleep depends of how my day was… if I had a stress free day and everything was fine I am sleeping hrs… if my day was not a good one or I have something relatively important to do the next day I might sleep from am to 11 am or not sleep at all until am!

Overall I am doing fine if I stay away from cold,bad postures and stress and take care of what I eat. Suddenly I have the feeling that I never healed at all because the symptoms are exactly as bad and severe as when I quit Zyprexa. I am very fragile and I wonder if I will ever heal completely and have 0 symptoms exactly like the normal person I was before drugs.

COM Many many thanks and hang in there! Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. He was placed on olanzapine 8 months ago on release from the mental health Ward he was admitted for suicidal ideation. It has been trial and error for months before the right medications were prescribed. He now takes 60mg tranylcypromine parnate which is highly effective and comes with no side effects, 30mg dexadrine for adhd, 3 doses of 0.

Now I understand how many may attribute his side effects to the list of medications he is on, however his side effects from olanzapine were in place before those medications were given. The effects he experienced worsened over several months : No longer aided in sleep at all SEVERE Irritability leading to verbal aggression he is genuinely the most polite and gentle person I had ever met Severe and sudden mood swings The weight gain continued to max 20kg and no success in weight loss He was able to improve his diet and intense desire to binge at night.

Initial withdrawal 10mg-5mg Severe Irritability — he became enraged and scarily focused on one topic that he argued about for 15 hours. He proceeded to smoke some marijuana to assist in how he felt.

The following day he experienced a psychotic episode. Withdrawal 5mg Withdrawal 2. Can anyone help?! This drug is evil. The psychiatrist tried to put him back on it to assist with some sudden insomnia due to the uti medication medication ceased, insomnia passing. The irrational and irritative psychotic episodes he is experiencing are becoming more frequent. He describes it as a mean part of him taking over, and he cannot stop it nor prevent it once started. He is unaware of all the aggressive and cruel things he says in this state.

It lasts from several hours to a full day. The adhd type symptoms were not as severe prior to olanzapine. These side effects are seriously concerning due to the severity. Will they reduce with time? He refuses hospitalisation. I am afraid he will enter a psychotic state and stab himself again. Please feel free to contact me via the following email address if any assistance or advice is out there.

So sad to hear about your boyfriends story. I am experiencing almost the similar thing And i was wondering how your boyfriends progress on coming of the olanzapine is and if he is still experiencing the withdrawal symptoms. Currently I am on a dosage of 4. I have tried to come of the drug 6 times but unsuccessful maybe because I did it to fast.

This time I will do it on a slower pace. Maybe we are talking months or years. This drug has completely ruined my life. It was given to me because of anxiety. It is very hard coming of this drug. I hope you can answer back because I desperately need to someone who has been there and because I need hope.

Does anyone yell after taking this drug? I had insomnia and my doc gave me Mirtazapine and Olanzapine which completely ruined my life.

I have very bad mirningr agitation and yelled hysterically from morning till noon. Can someone share your experience? Zyprexa withdrawal was the worst thing I ever went through. I was tapered off tags every two weeks. Four days after the last zyprexa I took the above symptoms were so severe I had to go to the ER at 5am.

I was checked in to the hospital for two weeks. I had a whole another set of problems with the doctor there the way he tried to medicate me. After about two and half weeks after the last zyprexa I been able to sleep all night without my lungs stopping with the help of a sleeping pill. I was on olanzapine from to on different doses. No psychiatrist ever thought of tapering the drug. After being sectioned in Hospital and feeling numb I was told I would need the drug to be increased, I was already on 20mg.

I quit the drug in a few months after being on the drug and coming out of hospital. I felt so weak, I could not walk, I was shivering, felt sick, and memory a mess and really frightened. I decided to go to a clinic abroad. After I told them that I had been given olanzapine, they were shocked. This apparently is one of the worst drugs so they told me. Like all medicines, olanzapine can cause side effects, although not everyone gets them. These common side effects may affect up to 1 in 10 people.

Tell your doctor if these side effects bother you or do not go away:. Call or go to In rare cases, it's possible to have a serious allergic reaction anaphylaxis to olanzapine. These are not all the side effects of olanzapine. For a full list see the leaflet inside your medicines packet. Olanzapine can be taken during pregnancy and is not thought to be harmful to your baby. Your mental health and wellbeing are important. If you become pregnant while taking olanzapine, speak to your doctor.

You will be reviewed in a specialised antenatal clinic and you can discuss your medicine with the doctors in the clinic. If your doctor or health visitor says your baby is healthy, you can take olanzapine while breastfeeding. Olanzapine passes into breast milk in very small amounts and has been linked with side effects in very few breastfed babies.

Many people have used it while breastfeeding without any problems. It's important to keep taking olanzapine to keep you well. Breastfeeding will also benefit both you and your baby. If you notice that your baby is not feeding as well as usual, seems unusually sleepy or seems irritable, or if you have any other concerns about your baby, talk to your health visitor, midwife, pharmacist or doctor as soon as possible.

Cannabidiol also known as CBD might affect how olanzapine works. Do not take cannabidiol while you are taking olanzapine. There might be a problem taking some other herbal remedies and supplements with olanzapine, especially ones that make you feel sleepy or dizzy. Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you're taking any other medicines, including herbal medicines, vitamins or supplements.

Olanzapine belongs to a group of medicines called antipsychotics. It does not cure your condition, but it can help to improve the symptoms of mental health conditions. Olanzapine works by affecting naturally occurring chemical messengers in your brain neurotransmitters , like dopamine.

If you have too much dopamine it can make you see or hear things that are not there hallucinations , or think things that others do not delusions. Dopamine is also involved in muscle movements, so too much of it can affect your muscles. Olanzapine also works on other neurotransmitters such as serotonin and noradrenaline.

Olanzapine rebalances these to improve your mood and behaviour. Taking olanzapine will not change your personality and it is not addictive. Olanzapine, like many medicines, does not work straight away. It can take a few weeks to get the dose right for you. It may take several days or even weeks for some of your symptoms to get better. Carry on taking your medicine for as long as your doctor tells you to, even if you feel better. Do not stop taking your medicine without talking to your doctor first.

When you first start taking olanzapine, it may make you feel more relaxed and calm. Within 2 to 3 weeks, your other symptoms may start to improve. Yes, many people take olanzapine for a long time, including for many months or years, without any problems. Olanzapine can increase the amount of sugar in your blood and this can sometimes lead to diabetes. Keeping to a healthy weight can help to prevent this.

You will usually have a blood test before you start olanzapine treatment to see how much sugar you have in your blood. You will have another test around 12 weeks after starting olanzapine to see if the amount of sugar in your blood has changed. If you already have diabetes you will be monitored more closely and will have more regular blood sugar tests. For example, you may have a test every 4 weeks to start with and then around 4 times a year. Taking olanzapine for a long time can sometimes affect your cholesterol.

If this happens, you may need to take a statin to help lower your cholesterol. Olanzapine helps to control your symptoms. Do not stop taking olanzapine suddenly otherwise your symptoms may come back. If you need to stop taking olanzapine, your doctor will help you come off it by reducing your dose gradually. This will help prevent withdrawal symptoms.

Talk to your doctor first if you want to go onto a lower dose or to stop taking olanzapine. The antipsychotic medicine you are prescribed will depend on the type of symptoms you have, how bad your symptoms are, any other medical conditions you have and how well your medicine works for you. You may have to try a few before you find the antipsychotic medicine that is right for you.

It can take time to find the right type and dose to manage your symptoms. Different antipsychotic medicines have different side effects. Lithium is usually the first medicine used to treat bipolar disorder. Lithium is a mood stabiliser, which means it helps to balance your mood and control symptoms of mania as well as depression. Olanzapine also helps with symptoms of mania. However, you will need to take it with another medicine to also manage your depression symptoms.

You can discuss with your doctor which treatment will be best for you. You may gain weight or have high cholesterol and triglycerides types of fat while taking this medicine, especially if you are a teenager.

You may need frequent blood tests. Do not stop using olanzapine suddenly , even if you feel fine. Stopping suddenly may cause serious side effects. Olanzapine is sometimes used together with other antipsychotic medications or antidepressants. Use all medications as directed and read all medication guides you receive. Do not change your dose or dosing schedule without your doctor's advice. Medication may be only part of a complete program of treatment that also includes counseling and other psychological support programs.

Follow your doctor's instructions. Take the medicine as soon as you can, but skip the missed dose if it is almost time for your next dose. Do not take two doses at one time. Overdose symptoms may include drowsiness, agitation, aggression, slurred speech, confusion, increased heart rate, jerky or uncontrolled muscle movements, trouble breathing, or fainting.

Avoid driving or hazardous activity until you know how this medicine will affect you. Dizziness or drowsiness can cause falls, accidents, or severe injuries. Avoid becoming overheated or dehydrated. Drink plenty of fluids, especially in hot weather and during exercise. It is easier to become dangerously overheated and dehydrated while you are taking olanzapine. Get emergency medical help if you have signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficult breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.

Seek medical treatment if you have a serious drug reaction that can affect many parts of your body. Symptoms may include: skin rash, fever, swollen glands, muscle aches, severe weakness, unusual bruising, or yellowing of your skin or eyes. High doses or long-term use of olanzapine can cause a serious movement disorder that may not be reversible. The longer you use olanzapine, the more likely you are to develop this disorder, especially if you are a woman or an older adult.

This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. Taking olanzapine with other drugs that make you sleepy or slow your breathing can cause dangerous or life-threatening side effects. Ask your doctor before using opioid medication, a sleeping pill, a muscle relaxer, or medicine for anxiety or seizures.

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