I just took my last dose of Zyprexa after several weeks on it for mania w/ psychosis......maybe now my appetite will go back to normal! I still have it on a PRN basis for if/when I get manic again, but I am SO glad to be done with it for the time being. I'm certainly not manic anymore, in fact I've gone the other way. But I think that's still just me adjusting to being off Celexa and I'll even out (or so I hope) eventually.
I wish somebody would invent a drug that has the effectiveness of Zyprexa with the weight neutrality of Geodon and Latuda and is NOT so bloody expensive!! Z is cheap in my neck of the woods (I paid $14.73 for 30 days' worth) and it works so much better for me than everything else. But I just can't ignore the increased appetite, weight gain and effects on my diabetes.
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DX: Bipolar 1
Anxiety
Tardive dyskinesia
Mild cognitive impairment
RX: Celexa 20 mg
Gabapentin 1200 mg
Geodon 40 mg AM, 60 mg PM
Klonopin 0.5 mg PRN
Lamictal 500 mg
Levothyroxine 125 mcg (rx'd for depression)
Trazodone 150 mg
Zyprexa 7.5 mg
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