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I took zyprexa when I was younger-for anxiety, which is an off lable use of it. I started gaining weight then, and I went from being a chubby kid to being downright obese. Not long after I stopped it, I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. I have been suffering immensly from it. Hard as I tried, I simply could not control my diabetes. My insulin resistance is terrible, I am on an insulin pump, and my A1cs have been extremely high.
I want to caution people that they should not take this terrible drug for anything less than a life threatening situation. My life is forever altered. I face this evey day of my life. Every time I eat anything, with every blood sugar test, with every shot, with every non-healing infection, with every low-blood sugar, I think of the doctor who precribed this terrible medicine. If he had said that there was a slight possibility that I would suffer in such a manner I would never have agreed. I feel cheated. Cheated by the drug company, the doctor, the FDA, and the system that allowed a young child to suffer in the ways that I did.
Parents, if you have a child on zyprexa, PLEASE look into this carefully. I wouldn't wish all this on my worst enemy.
I am in contact with a lawyer, and I am most likely going to win a whole bunch of money. I almost don't want that. Are we implying that we can measure pain and suffering, shots and fingersticks, hospital visits and doctors offices with money? All the money in the world would not take away the pain I suffered as a child, and continue to suffer.