My brother was prescribed Zyprexa a few days ago and I’m just wondering if it’s supposed to start working immediately, or if it’s one of those medications that takes like a month to get in the system.
Does anyone know?
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My brother was prescribed Zyprexa a few days ago and I’m just wondering if it’s supposed to start working immediately, or if it’s one of those medications that takes like a month to get in the system.
Does anyone know?
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I worked in an AFC home. Zyprexa is usually used for psycological issues. Lets just say when taking our residents off the drug we ‘weened’ them off it….Slowly lowering the dose for two weeks before stopping consumption. I also know that when we started giving zyprexa we had to wait two weeks before we saw ‘continuous’ reults. I’m sure some effects can be seen as early as 24 hours but I would wait a good 2 weeks before you can see the ‘real results’ of zyprexa.
It should start working very quickly. Zyprexa is used as an emergency medication in psychiatric crisis. It can start dissolving psychosis in as little as 20 minutes.
However, he should not have been prescribed Zyprexa for long-term use. There have been recent studies that have shown that taking Zyprexa in the long term increases your chances of developing diabetes 200-fold. Weight gain is also extremely problematic – gaining 5 pounds a week is not at all uncommon.
As a result, there is now a warning from Zyprexa and the health department that using it long term can be harmful.
http://zyprexa.com/about_zyprexa.jsp?WT.mc_id=ZypCSBip0001&WT.srch=1