Posted by Zyprexa on March 3, 2016, at 13:51:48
Has anyone else noticed that zyprexa loses its effectiveness rather quickly? When I start a 90 day supply, it knocks me out tired. By the end of the 90 days it almost seems to not work.
I just opened a new bottle about 2 weeks ago. With the last bottle, I was taking 17mg, with the new stuff I take 10mg. I have 20mg pills.
I also took some old stuff, year old and it didn't do much. I took 10mg.
The same thing happens every time. When I open a new bottle. And take the same dose as with the old bottle. Within a few days I can't keep my eyes open. Towards the end of the bottle I take a lot more almost or all of the 20mg pill and it does not seem to work as well as when it was fresh.
This time I have 3 factory sealed 30 pill bottles with a desicant pack in them. I will see if that make a difference.
Also the same thing happened with brand zyprexa and the teva I take now. For the longest time I've been taking old pills(couple months old) and it seemed that zyprexa was not as effective as it was in the past. When I would get a new bottle and took one to see if it was real z. It was a lot better than what I was taking.
For the longest while I thought someone was f-ing with my pills. Giving me watered down pills, because they wanted me on a lower dose or some thing.
Ever since I took 6 months of abilify and went back on zyprexa the pills were not as effective. But I guess that was because I've been taking several month old zyprexa and hording pills, so I would never run out. When I went back on z I've been taking higher doses of zyprexa for years. Up to 50mg a day. But usualy about 20mg.
Mind you that I think the abilify off set my brain too and gave me major anxiety that doesn't got away for months. Which is probably why I was on 30-50mg some days, right after I stoped.
In the beginning I was only taking 10mg zyprexa a day for many years and it was always very effective. But I did notice when I started 90 day supplys if was less effective rowards the end.
I've been taking zyprexa now for 18 years.
I've started to notice this over the last 8 or so.
Am I crazy or has anyone else noticed this?
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