Olanzapine

[adrian bonnington]

I was diagnosed as bi-polar more than 7 years ago and put on Olazapine by my consultant. The drug company knows it causes hunger, increase in body weight, increase sugars and diabetes and can make those with a diagnosis of diabetes worse. Why are Doctors still prescribing drugs that know carry the risk of a patient getting diabetes? Why cure one problem with another?

 

[Barry05]

I've a friend with mental illness that has taken that same drug olazapine for many years.
A few years ago he was diagnozed with diabetes type 2 and subsequently put on metformin for a while. Now he doesn't take metformin for diabetes as he controls it with diet.
He needs the olazapine because he has paranoid schizophrenia and became very unwell with it, hearing voices and doing unusual things etc. His medication was changed over a few years ago to another drug(I cannot recall the name of) and he went backwards with the mental illness, hearing voices again and not sleeping at all. He was put in a psychiatric hospital for a while whereby they changed his medication back to olazapine then after a few weeks he was a bit better and after a few months became fully recovered. Point is it seems olazapine is the only drug to help his illness (despite the weight increase and diabetes factors) whereby another drug was inadequate.
I'm not to sure if this answers your question but it sure says for better or worse no one is ever alone.

 

[JellyBeanMamma]

I was put on Olanzapine when I was first diagnosed and my bgl went up. Im now on Asenapine which is muc better. Holds of the mania and acts like a mood stabilizer. Bloods are good now.