{UAH} OLANZAPINE AND STOMACH PAINS!
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Friends,
OK, I'm going to avoid generalization and bashing of our doctors back home in Uganda but this is another story that needs all our attention.
A friend of mine has just come back from Uganda after a month away. She fell ill with stomach pains while there and went to a supposedly expensive clinic in Kampala to get some help. The doctor there didnt do any tests but just prescribed a medicine, Olanzapine (Zyprexa),which is known to have a hire possibility of causing diabetes, than any of the other similar drugs for psychotic disorders.She's not psychotic, so the indications for it's use were marginal in her case.
This drug does mess up the pancreas in an otherwise healthy individual without diabetes. And, the literature is almost silent on whether or not the pancreas will start to work if the patient is taken off of the Olanzapine.I can tell you that
majority of people who take it gain a horrendous amount of weight. It does something to your metabolism and to your appetite control within the brain.
So, my friend questioned the doctor why she has been prescribed it, the doctor's answer was:'just take it, we prescribe it to people here and they get better', and indeed she took it and felt better after two days of sleeping. She's now in fact wondering whether she should be taking it whenever she feels pains.
When I think I can be of some modest help to someone with a question, I do my best to answer. When it comes down to important medical decisions, I typically suggest that one consults their doctor. Now, I would like to hear opinions on this, because as a lay man, i found this disturbing.
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*Abbey Kibirige Semuwemba*
Stalk my blog at: http://semuwemba.com/
"My journey is long and my preparation is so little, and weakness has gripped me and death is chasing me!"
-- OK, I'm going to avoid generalization and bashing of our doctors back home in Uganda but this is another story that needs all our attention.
A friend of mine has just come back from Uganda after a month away. She fell ill with stomach pains while there and went to a supposedly expensive clinic in Kampala to get some help. The doctor there didnt do any tests but just prescribed a medicine, Olanzapine (Zyprexa),which is known to have a hire possibility of causing diabetes, than any of the other similar drugs for psychotic disorders.She's not psychotic, so the indications for it's use were marginal in her case.
This drug does mess up the pancreas in an otherwise healthy individual without diabetes. And, the literature is almost silent on whether or not the pancreas will start to work if the patient is taken off of the Olanzapine.I can tell you that
majority of people who take it gain a horrendous amount of weight. It does something to your metabolism and to your appetite control within the brain.
So, my friend questioned the doctor why she has been prescribed it, the doctor's answer was:'just take it, we prescribe it to people here and they get better', and indeed she took it and felt better after two days of sleeping. She's now in fact wondering whether she should be taking it whenever she feels pains.
When I think I can be of some modest help to someone with a question, I do my best to answer. When it comes down to important medical decisions, I typically suggest that one consults their doctor. Now, I would like to hear opinions on this, because as a lay man, i found this disturbing.
--
*Abbey Kibirige Semuwemba*
Stalk my blog at: http://semuwemba.com/
"My journey is long and my preparation is so little, and weakness has gripped me and death is chasing me!"
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