Posted by Abajo on September 15, 2001, at 7:11:33
My neuro just started me on Zyprexa, 2.5mgs/day. Tried every other med on the market for possible PD, BPII, and maybe simple partial seizures. I can't tolerate any of them except the benzo's. Just finished 2nd full neurological evaluation in last 10 years. Everything was normal. Sleep, anxiety and depression are biggest issues. So my cocktail is now Zyprexa, 2.5mgs/day, Xanax, 1-2mgs/QID, Inderal, 60mgs/BID. I have been on the Zyprexa for 1 week. Pdoc was pissed at the addition of Zyprexa, but if it works I don't care. I just woke up from my first night of 8hrs+ of unbroken sleep in years. My question is this, I get sleepy every 4hrs or so since starting the Zyprexa and start to slur my words and sometimes can't even get them out. I don't have the speech problem if I'm not sleepy. I don't want to go to sleep every time I get tired because I want to get on a normal sleep cycle. Awake during day, sleep at night. If I nap during the day, I can't sleep at night. I realize that I just started the Zyprexa and need more time to adjust to it. It does help with the anxiety and I'm hoping that it will stabalize my sleep. Does anyone else have problems with this type of speech problem using Zyprexa? If so, is it associated with feeling sleepy? If anyone has had this speech problem, especially when you first started the Zyprexa, did it go away after your body adjusted to it? How long should I give the Zyprexa to kick in and lose the speech problems? 2 weeks? A month? I've already started tapering off the high doses of Xanax(slowly). I'm aware that the combination of Xanax and Zyprexa could be causing the speech problem. Never had the speech problem until I started the Zyprexa. I know that everyone is different and drugs affect each of us differently. I'm just looking for some feedback about the speech problem, if anyone else has experienced this, and if it went away over time. Any thoughts from the experts with experience using Zyprexa? I do realize that the Zyprexa has already helped the anxiety, and that after 1 week I finally got 8hrs+ sleep last night, so it may be kicking in now. Thoughts, suggestions, anyone. I'm not new to drug side affects and am fairly knowledgable with respect to most of the drugs, AD's, AED's, mood stabalizers and benzo's. But this venture into atypical anti-psychotics is new to me. Thanks
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