Weight gain and diabetes.
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Weight gain, indeed.
Only now I fight back
the weight gain. I lost
2 kgs the previous month.
I plan on losing some every month.
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Daily functioning and autonomy needs to get better, but this needs some work. It is a problem when you can not make decisions by yourself about Healthcare.
I thought I had not much weight gain of Anti Psychotic medication.
I would agree with the weight gain. That and the fatigue, i am always so tired and often nap two or three times a day.
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Anxiety is my biggest complaint when it comes to side effects.
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Akathisia 151515
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Weight gain easily.
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Probably the negative symptoms.
Weight gain and diabetes, I can control if I have enough willpower to just not overeat. Sexual dysfunction, ok, I don’t have a partner anyway and besides there are drugs for that now. But the negative symptoms stay…. Anything to fix those makes my positives flare up.
And by negative, one side I mean is lack of being able to concentrate when reading a book. I used to be able to sit down and read a huge chunk of a book in one sitting. Now, doing that is almost painful. And I know it’s the meds cause first time I was in hospital they took me off meds for a day or so (cause the dosage was initially too high and I got bad EPS ) and when they took me off that symptom went away, all of a sudden reading was no longer painful. (They had books there )
Seriously, the cognitive side effects suck.
Also, another negative I have is inability to visualize anything in my head. Like, I can try to think of a ball or car or what have you and can’t “see” it inside my head, like I used to be able to before. This side effect bothers me cause I think I may never be able to become an engineer if I can’t picture 3D designs in my head to design stuff.
I think it’s the D2 blockade more than the illness. One of D2’s functions is visual processing…. And also executive function.
I would bet any amount of money in the world that as soon as they come up with an antipsychotic that works without affecting D2, they will see that it is actually the drugs causing a lot of the negative symptoms. (Or, at least, heavily, heavily exacerbating them )
Or is it just coincidence that D2 receptors control executive functioning and that also happens to (frequently) be impaired in Sz?
NOTE: I am not in any way encouraging anyone to go off their APs… I’m just saying the side effects suck.
I could live with much worse side effects, like permanent sexual dysfunction or constant pain or what have you if I just didn’t have the negative symptom exacerbation, if it just left my cognition alone, or cured what’s wrong with my cognition.
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I think avolition was the worst.
Negative symptoms, weight gain
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Definately the weight gain, although I am not sure at this point it’s the meds making me gain.
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Latuda 160mg. Only side effect other than not working hair thinning good gosh no 
Constipation
I struggle a lot on the toilet cuz I don’t move as much as I did, so yes, I end up suffering there
I have been thinking about increasing my docusate to 200mg a day.
Definitely weight gain.
Cervical dystonia, a movement disorder. My neck is almost always really tight, on the left side. I often lean my whole torso to the left and my head is sometimes cocked to the left. I look like a weirdo.
The weight gain is bad but just say I grew into my woman body. For me it’s the nightmares and insomnia.
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The third arm growing out of my back.
Probably sexual dysfunction.
Weight gain and flat affect.