Throughout my adult life I’ve struggled with my weight as a result of antipsychotics. I feel I needed to take antipsychotics. But the weight gain is a result of the antipsychotics has been devastating. I really feel that the first generation antipsychotics increased my appetite. I ended up getting up to 353 pounds. I’m six feet tall. That is not good for the heart. Fortunately the second generation antipsychotics aren’t as bad when it comes to weight gain. But I still weigh 298. Anyone else having challenges with their weight?
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Yeah, about 13 months ago I was above 300 lbs. I lost twenty lbs by counting calories then I got on mounjaro and lost 49 lbs more. Three days ago I weighed 250 lbs and my doctor just raised my dose of mounjaro. By this time next year I hope to be below 200. I’m six feet tall.
I’m gaining weight rapidly on Seroquel but I’m going to try to stay on it.
Just have to try harder to manage my weight.
Mounjaro no longer works as a weight loss drug for me.
generic prolixin over here helped me lose almost all of my extra weight…over eighty pounds.
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I once weighed 326 lbs from antipsychotic weight gain…using calorie counting plus first Saxenda then Mounjaro, I got my weight down to 142 lbs. About 4 months ago they discontinued the Mounjaro so I could undergo ECT, and at the same time I changed from Cobenfy to clozapine. I gained 35 lbs in those 4 months, now I’m somewhere around 185 lbs. The ECT is being discontinued and I will be restarting the Mounjaro, hopefully I can get back down. My doctor says I look okay to him, but I don’t like the way I look and how I feel with all the extra weight on me.
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I think its just considered “normal”. Most people I know who take antipsychotics are quite overweight myself included. Its rarer to see people on them for 10 plus years and remain thin.
Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try and better yourself, but definitely cut yourself some slack. Plenty of people that don’t have to take these drugs struggle with their weight.
I could give a darn about weight gain. Meds took a heavy weight the heaviest weight I’ve ever felt in all existence, my existence from my mind. I mean, I was so desperate I wanted anything anything please something help my mind and meds help my mind. And if I have to deal with weight gain, whatever I just want my mind. And my mind in the best shape it’s ever ever been in ever.