Significant weight gain?

Medications
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Hey guys! I currently take Quetiapine RBX during the day and Seroquel of a night time. (All seroquel I think just one is slow release)
My dosage of Quetiapine is being bumped up a little and my doc said this will cause significant weight gain. Anyone had experience with this? I’m 5’2 and 92 pounds so I’m not totally stressed about it, just wondering how significant the gain is and if it actually effects everyone.
Thanks :blush:

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I’ve gained 10 kg in three years.

But I was on Remeron and went from 65 kg to over 130 in a year. Still a struggle to get those kg off. I got quetiapin at night now and have gained about 3 kg/year.

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I am on Zyprexa and Seroquel and I have gained weigh, 15 kg too much, I try to exercise a lot and have a light diet to lose weight, but have not been successful yet.

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Thank you both :slight_smile: I’ve been on seroquel for 2 years already with no weight gain but my doc said the higher dosage will do it. At the moment I’m on 275mg total a day. Were you guys on anything higher than that? Was it increased appetite that made you gain weight or just the tablet itself? Sorry if that’s a rude question! Just seroquel doesn’t make me hungry as it seems to with others so that might be my way out haha

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I’ve been on a number of different anti psychotics and I’ve gained 100 pounds since I first got help.

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some people used to say they never gained weight on Seroquel. ive never tried it, im super sensitive to gain weight on drugs

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I think we live on opposite sides of the world! Which would make it a bit hard :stuck_out_tongue:

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I think I’ll give it a go and just drop a day time tablet if I gain too much, I’m not even 100% sure why he wants to bump me up.

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I’m on 200-300 mg Seroquel depending on how I sleep. If I sleep to little I use 300 mg pills, when I start to sleep well again I reduce it to 200 mg. I get psychotic when I don’t sleep. Seroquel helps a lot.

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I was on 400mg/500mg quetiapine for a while but I didn’t gain that much weight on it particularly. I’ve gained a lot since I switched to Olanzapine though