It’s annoying when people say stuff like oh you should just eat healthy and exercise since you gained weight on meds. if it was as simple as doing that while being on olanzapine i wouldnt have gained 170 lbs. despite being at a completely healthy weight before i started the med.
i dont know if its just the automatic response for people when it comes to weight issues but its annoying, literally nothing works on this med in regards to weight, not just due to the metabolic effects but also the mental effects on appetite making you crave food to the highest extreme and have trouble stopping eating. when i stopped it i got back to a healthy weight within four months.
just because you dont experience these problems on meds doesnt mean you should respond to others in a way like you are saying its their fault for not trying
Was my advice to @Aziz worthless?? I was just suggesting something. I just think this threads targeting me for something I recently said but didn’t mean it such a way but maybe I’m being paranoid.
I’m sorry you deal with weight gain on the meds like that. I experienced it worse on clozapine personally than zyprexa but everyone is different. The reason I liked abilify was mainly for its lack of weight gain and it still had that.
nah just been seeing a bunch of replies on posts increasingly recently like my one about height and every thread ive said something about my experience with olanzapine on. not you specifically
One of my besties is normal weight on olanzapine but he walks sometimes seven hours day and only eats one meal a day.
It sounds but strict n obsessive to live that way.
How can someone walk for seven hours?
Sometimes it’s only two hours and those days he feels bad for not walking more.
I am overweight on latuda and i don’t eat breakfast n only smoothies for lunch n tiny dinners.
It’s just not right that i should be overweight when I eat so little.
If I eat any less I’ll be anorexic and apparently there are anorexic people who are not that skinny but look around normal weight or even overweight.
It’s a bloody struggle the darn weight.
I don’t see what I can do to lose weight as I’m not willing to be anorexic n malnourished.
yea sorry if it seems like its towards u i just saw ur post on azizs thread rn. idk why i even made this thread im grumpy for no reason today dont even know why but i somehow slept the whole afternoon evening night and morning from 4pm to noon today so awaking from hibernation i guess
i became mildly anorexic mentally on geodon. its like i had no control over what i ate for so long on olanzapine that when i switched to a med that didnt affect my appetite i would do extreme zero carb diets and fasting with low calories for my height and weight
i hope they will come out with a 5ht2c agonist or partial agonist. i did a bunch of research and found that olanzapine weight gain and metabolic effects are mostly caused by 5ht2c inverse agonism, or antagonism in some meds which is slightly less worse. the only 5ht2c agonist that has come out what a weight loss med called lorcaserin but it was removed by the fda because it was found to increase risk of cancer somehow
It has nasty side effects on Wikipedia. Cardiac toxicity and:
the US Drug Enforcement Administration proposed classifying lorcaserin as a Schedule IV drug because it has hallucinogenic properties at higher than approved doses and users could develop psychiatric dependencies on the drug.
i was also thinking about the post you made about creativity yesterday
and it brought me back to when i was 18-21 years old writing rhymes in class in college never paying attention i just wrote sick ass rhymes all day.
if only i knew i had my whole life ahead of me and made wiser decisions i couldve easily been famous too haha because i just had that pen game back then i dont have now and its unfortunate cuz i am a creative person but i cant think so clearly anymore and thats really what holds me back the most in writing lyrics.
