I’ve never gained more than 5 pounds from meds. It’s taken a lot of work though. Whenever I gain I make sure I lose it again
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I agree! It’s so much easier to exercise at home!
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i probably spent 75% of my time awake just eating when i was on olanzapine, i was just ravenous, when i first started taking it again i ate so much food that my stomach would be ss stretched out and tight as a pregnant woman and i hadn’t even gain enough weight yet for it to be that big. i will never go in that med again, gained like 160 pounds in a year
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It would have been better, I think, if I knew about the possibility of weight gain beforehand. Then I could have been more cautious.
I gained all that weight when my negative symptoms were very bad. I did not realize what was actually happening to my body until it was too late.
Yah I’m lucky that I do not really have negative symptoms. It’s been hard work though. I still have weight to lose as I gained when I was disabled by psychosis, but I work reallly hard while medicated to stay thin
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I gained probably 60lbs on Seroquel,
I was just ravenously hungry all the time.
That’s when I decided to quit APs.
I lost the weight but I was super crazy.
Now I’m on Abilify and have only gained about 15lbs in three years,
Mostly because of my own poor dietary choices.
I need to lose that, but I fear the AP will make it more difficult.
I’m in the process of dieting and exercising now.
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I’ve lost 7 Kg. Now I’m at 130 Kg, I started to eat a bit lesser, but it is still a lot what I’m eating.
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I bounce back and forth between 158 and 162 lbs depending upon whose scale I weigh myself on. It’s frustrating.
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For me it was when I first started on Olanzapine. I would eat anything and everything in the cupboard and fridge. I never felt full for more than an hour or two. I put on 16kg in about six weeks, and stayed at that weight fortunately.
I hadn’t eaten that much since I was a teenager.
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I no longer care that im fat cos i used to be so anorexic.
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I gained 15 lbs over the last several months and have only lost 5 of it so far, but I’m working on it. I just ate too much.
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I gained over a 100 pounds since being on Medications for Schizoaffective Disorder its frustrating and aggravating as hell to go up and down on the scale right now I am keeping my weight the same which is better than gaining. But I really need to still lose a lot of weight I have been going to the gym three days a week have lost 17 pounds so far but haven’t lost anymore and I have been going to the gym for almost a year now. I will never ever give up that someday I will be much thinner than I am but its hard to lose that extra weight I am still obese I just have to work harder at it than someone who isn’t on meds for mental illness. I am a fighter and determined to beat this problem that’s been a problem for many years for me. Have tried diet pills that made me manic and gave me chest pains all accept Alli which is just so expensive and plus pills make me sick taking them even swallowing them is a problem luckily I can take my other meds cause their relatively small to take but big pills pose a problem for me to take. Thinking of amping up my work out routine instead of three days a week I may start going 5 days a week for a hour at the gym and see if I make progress then wish me luck everyone will keep everyone posted if I finally make progress.
Risperidal made me fat ate six toast for breakfast on it
Generally, it just made me eat more.
I also started smoking more cigarettes which, ultimately, lead to even more hunger.
What do you do to lose the 5 lbs.?
I count calories. Be careful with this though as it’s really easy to develop an eating disorder
I couldnt stop craving and eating junk food. I really regret not having more control as now I am prediabetic.
Zyprexa. 70lbs
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