When I was on Clopixol Depot, I craved food and had the munchies big time.
Every day after work I bought prepaired food from the grocery store.
With that I bought a big slice of cake every day.
I believe the cake made me fat in no time.
I changed to Olanzapine and the sugar cravings became worse. I developed metabolic syndrome.
I was very fat. I changed to Abilify and managed to loose 10 kgs over the past 3 years. I’m still obese.
On Saphris I stayed on a low calorie diet and exercised regularly and still gained 100 lbs in 6 months. It was awful. I’m like that, though not quite as extreme, with pretty much all atypicals.
The older meds I don’t really have much weight gain.
I think it was just giving into my cravings for pasta, pizza, ice cream, pastries, etc. all the time. I no longer cared about my health.
Bad eating habits and low metabolism and mobility issues
Before I got ill I use to walk a lot and had enough excercise. Since I became ill the negative symptoms dragged me down and i couldn’t exercise. I believe that my sedentary lifestyle added to the weight gain.
It’s sad that it didn’t work out for you.
Did you manage to loose any weight afterwards on maybe another AP?
That sounds a lot like me.
After my diagnosis everything was a blur. Olanzapine made me very tired all the time and I just took the pills with little understanding of what they could do, as I discharged myself from care within two weeks of diagnosis.
Two years later I snapped when I found out it was the drug contributing to how I felt, so I tried to take an overdose of it and ended up in hospital again.
I went from weighing 59 kilos to 96 kilos in two years. I went onto Latuda for 18 months and went down to 79 kilos, but since that gave me akasthisia I had to move to a few others and now I am 87 kilos again.
I am trying one last time to reduce my weight starting monday with riding a static bike for 30 mins every morning monday to friday. If that doesn’t do it, I am just going to accept that things are ■■■■■■■
That is a lot. I gained 30 kilo’s in just over 2 years.
Not for a really long time. I’m working on that now, though.
I am disgusted that they prescribe that drug to people. Especially without them knowing the risks. I was on 20mg which was the highest dose at the time. I think it’s 30mg now based on some posts I have seen recently.
I think it was just the way my body changed out from under me. I think I began slowly absorbing food differently in the intestines. That wasn’t helped by the onset of depression, and comfort eating, but I think it was a combination of depression and the medicine that slowly ratcheted up the weight gain.
Now I’m down from my peak at 280 but I’m only down to 265 I’m having trouble getting past this because of my lack of energy and I don’t know what to do. I have very little energy to cook and pasta is one of the easiest fulfilling things I can cook still.
I probably went from 190 to 280 within a year or two.
Geodon made me extremely hungry, but it was supposed to be more hunger neutral. I’m gaining weight on saphris, but I’m also going through a bad anxiety and depression spell so I havent been tracking or trying to lose weight.
I went from 140 to almost 300 in 18 months on Seroquel. I was hungry all the time. I craved sugar, fat, and carbs. I once ate a whole container of Mayfield Moose Tracks ice cream in one day. One day lol
What made me gain weight was the high dose of Olanzapine, especially the munchies. I ate on a good day 3000 calories on a bad a day 6000. I was constantly hungry. Now I lost all the weight well most of it
Even when I was exercising often the damn AP made it impossible to keep my weight down. After the relapse and the ultimate failure to maintain a ketogenic diet it was idleness, gluttony (I would have withdrawal symptoms when I tried to go off sugar which I was binging on), and the lack of exercise that accelerated it.
Not being able to jog anymore,
not moving much in general
sleeping a lot
sugar laden sweets
fizzy drinks
cheese and pretzel type things
It just took a not such a long time to get from 82 Kg to 137 Kg. The first med they gave me was Olanzapine. I gained 14 Kg on that one. After I had a psychotic episode and ended up in the psych ward, they gave me Risperidone. I was at 96 Kg and went up to 117 Kg in some months. Afterwards I had my second last episode and was put on Amilsulpride, I could lose 7 Kg on that, but it made me psychotic and I ended up for the last time in hospital. Now they gave me Risperidone again and in some months I got from 110 Kg to 137 Kg.
But with coming out for the last time out of hospital, I started to buy food for myself, and just ate my food. Before that I would just buy one meal. And the meals went up from 2 to 3 times a day, to 6 or 7 times a day. I had nothing to cook with in the beginning so I bought bread, cold cuts, soda and sweets.
I’m still eating most of the meals like that, just I eat one meal a day additionally cooked by father. The worst was probably that I started eating 500g of bread per day with fatty cold cuts, drinking soda with it and eating sweets and chips.
@Vuldarz, That is a lot of weight you gained. 55 kilo’s. Were you able to loose some of that weight?
I am tall. 192 cm. I went from 115 kilo’s to 145. I somehow managed to come down to around 134 on Abilify.
I go for small walks every other day but remain in my room most of the day. My sister cook for us in the week. Weekends is fast food.
Seroquel, Zyprexa and now Loxapine all made me gain weight. Very frustrating. On Seroquel I gained insanely fast. On Zyprexa and loxapine I have a voracious appetite. I’m trying not to eat even though I’m so hungry but sometimes I cave in and eat. I started exercising though so I’m hoping that helps.
@LilyoftheValley, Excercise will definitely help. I wish I could excercise more. I’m so self concious and somehow scared to walk outside. I should get myself an indoors excercise bike.