Which antipsychotic doesn't cause weight gain?

Medications
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I had a psychotic episode recently. So my psychiatrist are going to prescribe me with the new medicine + Aripiprazole, Quetiapine and Lamotrigine.

My question is: which antipsychotic doesn’t cause weight gain? Not including the medicine mentioned above.

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Geodon. But it can cause heart problems, so you have to get an EKG every year. It’s a trade off.

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OMG heart problems?!!!

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I would listen to your doctors and don’t worry about weight gain so much.
Staying mentally stable is more important than some weight gain.
Follow a healthy diet and try to exercise if you are concerned.

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Both are very important. If I gained weight, I would start to hate myself and I would start to feel suicidal. So I really need to know.

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Abilify, Latuda, Vraylar, Geodon are all supposed to be weight neutral I believe

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I’m pretty sure they all do to a degree, however some do more the others. Zyprexa is probably the worst offender, it can wreak havoc with your blood sugar and give you metabolic syndrome. It had me up to 240 pounds while I was on it but the good news was I worked out alot so it was muscle mass instead of fat, it was practically like steroids. After awhile it made me so ill I couldn’t take it any more so I switched to something else.

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I think that weight gain is not the only thing to worry about,
there are also metabolic and cardiac side effects.
@mongolina

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Geodon is really rough stuff. At high doses you will be dancing the devil dance in the corner with dreaded akithisia

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Explain in human language :DD

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I used it for years it came out in 2001. Ever since then I used it off and on because it is true that it causes LESS weight gain than the others. But it made me very restless when I had to take a therapeutic dose of it. I am on latuda now and it isn’t that bad for weight gain it also causes a little restlessness but it works better than geodon in my opinion

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I put on 30kg on Olazapine over two years. I have now been on Latuda for two years, and I have lost 10kg.

I’d say it’s one of the better ones but I do get restlessness from it sometimes.

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Geodon (zeldox in Europe), is the best drug in terms of not gaining weight. Zyprexa is the worst. I have to say though, zyprexa is the best med Ive ever taken, and geodon close to the worst. So I am on zyprexa for the 14th year.

I actually lost 25 pounds while taking Geodon/zeldox. This thread has been the first Ive heard of need for EKG.

But it interfered with my sleep pattern, and I had a lot less symptoms on zyprexa.

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Well I’m on Latuda.So far I have not really gained any weight because of it.And it does help my symptoms a great deal.

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İnvega also good for not gaining weight.because it does not get you hungry like wolf.but if you don t caution you can take up to 25-30 kg.so it s up to your regime.i had been take 16kg while on it.

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Ziprasidone is the best for this. You may be getting the generic. It is superior to every other antipsychotic In weight loss. Next best is probably haloperidol. Everything other than ziprasidone is likely to cause weight gain.