From reducing or switching your antipsychotic?
I’m worried that my risperidone weight isn’t going to come off even after I taper down.
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I’ve never experienced weight loss from reducing or stopping an AP, but i managed to lose 145 lbs while taking a notorious weight-gainer, clozapine. I used liraglutide first, then Mounjaro, and i tracked everything i ate and walked a lot every day. I’ve gained back about 5 lbs in the last 2 months while on Zyprexa and Cobenfy, but i got lazy with my eating…i need to go back to logging my intake religiously but it’s the holidays so I’m not gonna beat myself up over it.
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When i went off Olanzapine earlier in the year, I lost close to 15 pounds in about a month.
Don’t reccomend stopping your meds like I did. Most sz people need meds.
Im back on Olanzapine and im tracking the calories I eat. No more than 1500 a day for me.
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I worry about the same thing.
I’ve lost weight multiple times before being on APs.
I’ve always struggled with my weight.
Haven’t had any luck since being on meds
I take abilify btw… which is supposed to be a weight neutral med, but if you ask the users like me that is BS
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yes. i usually drop weight very very fast when i quit my meds.
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I have. I was put on Topamax too. But I get psychotic or paranoid on Topamax. I’ve gotten down to like 210-220 lbs.
My normal weight is 170-180 lbs. I’m currently like 280 lbs.
I eat like crap and don’t exercise. I think I have AP induced weight gain. I eat better and half as much off meds, but I realize I need to take them for the rest of my life.
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A long time ago I quit olanzapine cold turkey, and within about 6 months I had lost all the weight I had gained on that med, which was a lot.
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Couple hundred pounds after quitting Zyprexa.
Really.
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I lost 65 lbs on resperidone with the Atkins Diet.
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I lost weight after reducing invega about 30 to 40 lbs
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wow whiteraven wow. i wish i could lose 40 lbs., then i’d be where i want to be
judy
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The only thing that sucked for me that when I was dieting I was constantly thinking about food.
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I had to reduce my antipsychotic dose significantly in order to be able to loose weight. Not personally a fan of switching antipsychotics.
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Hello @Zoe and how have you loss of weight with this reducing of your antipsychotics ? I want reduce Also my APS to loss weight.
I know a man that loss 12 kilograms. His former dose was ten mg daily of abilify and now just 0,5 mg daily.
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Hi @frenchman, I’m slowly losing weight by not binge eating. And exercising regularly. I was on 15 mg in 2016 and slowly over the years, the dose was reduced. It’s abilify. So from 15mg to 10mg, to 5mg to 2.5mg atm.
Good luck 
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@frenchman, which medications are. You on?
Years ago I was almost 235 pounds
Today I weigh 174 pounds
This was achieved through sheer determination with a lot of work
Mounjaro helps a lot and so does calorie counting
I’ve also increased my movement (step tracking)
I recently added weightlifting to my schedule
It’s possible to lose weight on weight gains meds like risperidone
I’m on two weight gaining meds, risperidone and Depakote
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I have abilify 400 maintena depakote 2000 cymbalta 30 buspirone 20 and loxapine 200. But i had problems with autority and police in the past and i am in obligation to take all these drugs. In the past my minimum dose in monotherapy was just 2,5 mg of abilify daily and I was well with just it. My psy IS a fool !
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@Wave, does Mounjaro upset your stomach?
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