What I Learned About Zyprexa
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| What I Learned About Zyprexa |
| 01.09.05 (11:51 am) [edit] |
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005
From: Zeke Krahlin
To: social-worker friend
Subject: Re: What I learned about Zyprexa
2nd-generation prozac, essentially.
Probably responsible for diabetes and hyperglycemia...increases your odds 10-fold, of developing diabetes! Here's a page listing the health risks:
zyprexa-info.com/Zyprexarisks.htmf
And this (Google-Usenet link):
Studies Link Zyprexa to Diabetes & Deaths_Balt Sun
Besides which, there's a safer drug than Zyprexa, called Geodon (Ziprasidone HCl) Better Tolerated Than Zyprexa (Olanzapine) In Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorders. Here's a Google-Usenet link:
Geodon Better Tolerated Than Zyprexa
Sounds like Eli-Lilli is dumping tons of Zyprexa to doctors for cheap. And that's probably why this Dr. did NOT mention the better alternative. Plus, she right off the bat wanted to prescribe a psychotropic drug to me! I think we're off to a bad start, and I shall start to look elsewhere. Not that I'll find any better, but it's sure a learning experience for me!
Just more grist for the blog. :)
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Lavender-Velvet Revolution
gay-bible.org
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005
From: social-worker friend
To: Zeke Krahlin
Subject: Re: What I learned about Zyprexa
Hello, sweetie. Yes, I think you are making a good decision about finding someone else, and the meds as well. Think how hard it is for folks who aren't as well-informed as you are when they go to a shrink like that!
See you later!
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005
From: Zeke Krahlin
To: social-worker friend
Subject: Re: What I learned about Zyprexa
You (yes you!) said:
Hello, sweetie.
"Oatmeal--while wholesome in its earthy purity--is more happily administered with honey or other sweetener at hand (such as dried fruit)." - old Scottish joke which I just made up.
Yes, I think you are making a good decision about
finding someone else, and the meds as well.
That's why I take these risks...or more aptly, why my spirit guardians put me in these precarious positions. That I may "witness" for others, and speak out because they can't. But it is no pleasantry for me, to stand that close to the Dragon's Fiery Breath!
I am amused that, now even when Big Brother may force one to take some sort of medication, one can now find a way through this with health and sanity intact, by insisting on the least harmful variation. (The good always have a way out; albeit not revealed till late in the game.) Such a Brave New World this is!
See you later!
On Beyond Zyprexa! :D
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Lavender-Velvet Revolution
gay-bible.org
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