My husband strongly says I need to remain on olanzapine. But I would prefer to try something else like paliperidone or lurasidone. I want to lose a lot of weight. I can maintain weight on olanzapine, but losing is very hard. I hate my fat body so much.
I feel very off lately due to the increase in my antidepressant. I am not myself. I am intensely angry and hateful and so irritated mood. I am shopping more. I get so wound up lately. At bedtime I think I’ll sleep easily and olanzapine eventually knocks me out but my brain is nearly impossible to get into sleep mode.
I told my doctor I wanna try different medication‘s to see if I lose weight on them. The doctor even got me thinking that I could even gain more weight in certain situations it depends on the individual
The doctor said that I have some stability with what I’m on now and didn’t want to mess up my stability
Also my antidepressant keeps me out of severe depression but when I come out of it I do deal with frustration and agitation and anger at moments not constantly though
you can take drugs like metformin to help reduce weight also try drinking green coffee beverage it helped me in loosing alot of gained weight due to antipsychotic intake.
I would explore your options medwise. It’s good if your stable on it but if you have issues with it it shouldn’t be ignored. If olanzapine is causing troublesome weight gain it’s impacting your health. Obesity can take years off one’s life. So it’s your choice.
I have been on a highly destructive journey to find meds that do not make me a hippopotamus
Counter to this, back on a med like Olanzapine, Clozapine…
Never thought I’d ever agree to this med, but it’s just the way it has gone
It was one big experiment with mental health to balance out the problems obesity brings over the last 7/8 years.
Eventually I came back around to high weight gaining meds
Now I am trying to cut out other meds that don’t help, whilst at the same time trying to have minimum effective dose - introducing some exercise as well.