Choose your poison - Poll

Medications
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It can solve all your ills, but you need to choose one of the following problems it will give you…

  • Weight gain and possible diabetes
  • Movement problems (EPS Etc)
  • Sexual Side effects

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Monsieur, you are really spoiling us with all these choix.

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I don’t make the rules

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I already suffer from weight gain and diabetes and I also experience sexual side effects.
Some trade off huh…

The things I’ll do for some sanity.

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Hemlock on the rocks.

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Another interesting question is would someone with sexual problems take treatment that caused the symptoms of sz as a side effect.

Basically the choice im given in stopping meds to regain sexual ability

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Definitely sexual side effects. I don’t need diabetes or movement disorders.

But it would be a sad life. Still

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@dividedself It’d be crazy of them not to!

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i cant vote there isnt a allabove choice

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I’d rather be fat than impotent. But definitely don’t want any EPS.

11

Olanzapine made me fat and gave me diabetes, so I already made that trade off. But I would choose that trade off anyways given the choices in this poll.

I’m off Olanzapine now and have lost virtually all the weight I gained but I am still stuck at pre-diabetes blood sugar levels. So things have improved significantly but they are not back to normal.

I wouldn’t want sexual dysfunction or EPS side effects, I live in fear of developing Tardive Dyskinesia.

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I voted for fat with possible diabetes.

I’m thirty pounds overweight and will get diabetes if I don’t change.

It sucks, and I’m going to try to lose it,

But it’s freaking a lot better than not being able to have an orgasm or EPS.

I can still get laid being a little fat.

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Er, same, but the diabetes is no longer theoretical.

Thanks, Zyprexa!

:sob:

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i dont get any action so sexual side effects wouldnt bother me

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Thanks everyone for voting and commenting

I have experienced all three as of recently and I am stuck for choosing one of the main drawbacks of AP’s

Putting it bluntly I guess if your not having sex the fact you can’t is a moot point

16

I care less about sexual side effects.

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I haven’t got any of the side effects mentioned above but I’ve got cognitive dulling and negative symptoms caused by the large amount meds I take each day. But in the past I have had sexual dysfunction caused by 300 mg clopixol each week. For 15 years I couldn’t perform. Now I’m down to 500 mg Clopixol every 3 week. And in 1996 I gained 40 pounds while on clozapine for half a year.
My current meds regime is

500 mg clopixol every 3 weeks
160 Geodon by mouth
500 mg seroquel IR by mouth

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Quite a long time it was additional food
I checked now and it’s lack of sex at middle age not so bad, weight coming down
And in the future it will surely be movement disorder

Alllll 3 please

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This is the oddest poll.

20

yeah. why’d you bring it back?