Have noticed a weight gain since you take antipsychotics with the same food intake?

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Have you noticed a weight gain with antipsychotics since you take antipsychotics with the same food intake ?

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I’m on Abilify, and Abilify is weight neutral for me.

I’m calorie counting.

So when I eat too much I put on weight and when I eat the correct amount of calories I lose weight.

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Yes, Zyprexa seems to slow down my metabolism…

I have thyroid problems too though so that kind of muddies the waters.

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Me also i think that abilify is weight neutral on me, in fact i take 20 kilograms since 2008 but i have 15 years old in more and i have never work since this date and my work was very hard like sport activity.
In 2008 i weighted 95 kilograms after my weight jumped gradually to 139 kilograms et since the end of february 2023 i do a regimen and i lose 24 kilograms, so now my weight is 115 kilograms. I do also home bicycle 40 minutes by days that help me to lose weight and i want to buy a rowing machine to do 20 minutes by days of it. I count calories with a scale and before my regimen i taken 3500 calories and now juste between 2400/2500 calories by days. i avoid the fat and the sugar, i take sweeteners and i take milk and yogurts without fat for example. i want to have a weight of 100 kilograms for this summer.

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I’m on 20 mg of Abilify. It makes me want to eat everything in sight. I got diabetes from craving sugary things.

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I’ve gained back 40lbs which I lost last year, I blame it on the Paliperidone. Of course nobody’s cramming food down my throat.

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Clozapine slowed my metabolism

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Olanzapine does this to me, same food intake but big weight gain.

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Zyprexa, yes it slows down metabolism. And makes it hard to eat the right amounts.

I’m following a ulcer diet these days, this made me lose a little weight so far. Also I don’t eat large portions.