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Go to medbroadcast.com and look at their drug check. Simply type in the name of your drug and everthing should come up-what it’s for, side effects, etc. If that site doesn’t have the info you need, go to google.com and type in the name of the drug and go from there. Good Luck!
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I was on it for depression, and I’m not even sure what it does. I know it didn’t work for me, though. Sorry I’m not much help. As many of you know, I take zyprexa. Lately it is 10 mg. a day. I am much more functional on it, not less depressed. Not by any stretch of the imagination. Just simply more functional. I have had doctors claim I suffer from many things and disagreeing with each other. severe depression, post traumatic stress syndrome, once borderline, and just an old fashion nervous breakdown. Whatever the label, the symptons most of you know. A five year recovering from a total breakdown that took lucidity and rendered me a waking unconscious person for months. Okay — here is my question. Does someone know precisely what zyprexa does to the brain?? The doctors call it "paste" but no one seems to know or want to say what it does. It scares me, because it is an anti-psychotic used with those who suffer from delusions, voices, or multiple personality — I suffer from none of this. I need to know WHAT I am taking. I appreciate any input Best Rosena
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I was on it for depression, and I’m not even sure what it does. I know it didn’t work for me, though. Sorry I’m not much help.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – As many of you know, I take zyprexa. Lately it is 10 mg. a day. I am much more functional on it, not less depressed. Not by any stretch of the imagination. Just simply more functional. I have had doctors claim I suffer from many things and disagreeing with each other. severe depression, post traumatic stress syndrome, once borderline, and just an old fashion nervous breakdown. Whatever the label, the symptons most of you know. A five year recovering from a total breakdown that took lucidity and rendered me a waking unconscious person for months. Okay — here is my question. Does someone know precisely what zyprexa does to the brain?? The doctors call it "paste" but no one seems to know or want to say what it does. It scares me, because it is an anti-psychotic used with those who suffer from delusions, voices, or multiple personality — I suffer from none of this. I need to know WHAT I am taking. I appreciate any input Best Rosena
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It scares me, because it is an anti-psychotic used with those who suffer from delusions, voices, or multiple personality — I suffer from none of this.
If it’s any reassurance, I’m on a medication–seroquel–that’s also an antipsychotic, but only in very high doses. They have taken to using it in smaller doses for depression/anxiety, and it’s worked very well for me. minx
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someone else will have to explain exactly what an antagonist does when it binds receptors for neurotransmitters……
Receptors are like locked doors. Like a locked door that doesn’t open without a key, and thus doesn’t allow any traffic through it, receptors are usually inactive in the absence of a key. Receptors require a key (the correct neurotransmitter or hormone) to fit into the lock and open the door. An agonist is a synthetic drug (or the natural neurotransmitter or hormone) that can activate a specific receptor and make it do whatever it does, just like the correct key opens a locked door. An antagonist is a drug that, like a key fits some locks and not others, fits into a specific lock just like an agonist. But unlike an agonist, an antagonist is incapable of activating the receptor. If there are enough antagonists around, then they will occupy the agonist-binding site on the receptor and prevent it from being activated. They will plug up the lock in the door, and thereby keep that particular door shut. Of course the brain is not the liver. There are LOTS of doors with similar types of locks in them. And there are lots of keys, some are agonists, some are antagonists, and some are partial agonists. (There are even drugs called inverse agonists, but that’s a more complicated story involving receptors that are active in their resting state, such that occupation of the lock with an antagonist doesn’t just keep a shut door shut, it actually shuts a door that is normally partially open.) Now do the combinatorial math. One drug can act as an agonist at a few receptors, a partial agonist at a few other receptors, and an antagonist at yet other groups of receptors. That’s why it’s very difficult to say that a drug’s action is due to it’s ability to block one particular receptor (or enzyme, or uptake pump, etcetera). Sincerely Stewart —
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – As many of you know, I take zyprexa. Lately it is 10 mg. a day. I am much more functional on it, not less depressed. Not by any stretch of the imagination. Just simply more functional. I have had doctors claim I suffer from many things and disagreeing with each other. severe depression, post traumatic stress syndrome, once borderline, and just an old fashion nervous breakdown. Whatever the label, the symptons most of you know. A five year recovering from a total breakdown that took lucidity and rendered me a waking unconscious person for months. Okay — here is my question. Does someone know precisely what zyprexa does to the brain?? The doctors call it "paste" but no one seems to know or want to say what it does. It scares me, because it is an anti-psychotic used with those who suffer from delusions, voices, or multiple personality — I suffer from none of this. I need to know WHAT I am taking. I appreciate any input Best Rosena
I dont know myself. i tak 5 mg in the morning and 10 mg at bedtime. all i know is that for some odd reason or another, i missed two or three mornings. by the 3rd morning, i was crying my eyes out. and i also take 300 mg of effexor also. Cheryl
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Thanks Kenster — I did do a search and it helped a little — hope your meds work too Best Rosena
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Thanks you!!! I did a web search to and sort of got a sense. Real funny, they list three major areas for Sciozo. (can’t spell it out). One group — reality distorted like voices I don’t have. BUT other two groups, negative isolation stuff AND cognitive stuff I do have to varying degrees over the years . . . scary — thanks again you. Now back to your work! Rosena
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p/e Okay — here is my question. Does someone know precisely what zyprexa does to the brain?? The doctors call it "paste" but no one seems to know or want to say what it does. It scares me, because it is an anti-psychotic used with those who suffer from delusions, voices, or multiple personality — I suffer from none of this.
‘paste.’ what the hell is that supposed to mean. from the rxlist.com monograph: Pharmacodynamics Olanzapine is a selective monoaminergic antagonist with high affinity binding to the following receptors: serotonin 5HT2A/2C (Ki=4 and 11 nM, respectively), dopamine D1-4 (Ki 11- 31 nM), muscarinic Ml-5 (Ki=1.9-25 nM), histamine H1 (Ki=7 nM), and adrenergic alpha1 receptors (Ki=19 nM). Olanzapine binds weakly to GABAA, BZD, and beta adrenergic receptors (Ki10
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