I sure hope they aren’t going to make me retarded. I used to be very spacey as a child and it wasn’t until I finally became normal that they put me on Zyprexa.
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I sure hope they aren’t going to make me retarded. I used to be very spacey as a child and it wasn’t until I finally became normal that they put me on Zyprexa.
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Zyprexa works to reduce symptoms of schizophrenia by blocking various serotonin and dopamine receptors. It blocks the serotonin (5HT2A) receptor more potently than the dopamine (D2) receptor. In animal studies, Zyprexa is more potent at blocking serotonin and dopamine than Clozaril.
Serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, or 5-HT) is a monoamine neurotransmitter synthesized in serotonergic neurons in the central nervous system (CNS) and enterochromaffin cells in the gastrointestinal tract of animals including humans. Serotonin is also found in many mushrooms and plants, including fruits and vegetables.
Hope this info helps you. Here is a page with a lot more info on Zyprexa.
http://www.zyprexa.com/patient/interactions/errors.jsp
fda informaton link:
http://www.fda.gov/cder/foi/label/2007/020592s042s043,021086s022s023,021253s026lbl.pdf
The link discusses serotonin receptor and other receptor activity, no reason to repeat it here.
Zyprexa falls into the class of atypical antipsycotics. Once thought to be more effective than the traditional anti-psychotics with less side effects.
But, that it turns out that it is no more effective than the older and much cheaper antipsycotic drugs, and has the same side effect profile.
Zyprexa promotes weight gain and diabetes, whether or not it promotes diabetes more than the older drugs I do not know.
All antipsycotics tend to cut down on the mind’s ability to think in abstract terms, so learning math or science or any other challange that requires abstract thought is impaired, the lower the dose, the less the problem.