Can I lose weight on antipsychotic medicines? I’ve gain 15 lbs on Zyprexa and I can’t seem to lose it. I think it’s my gut inside but my stomach still have a slight abs and it looks weird being on a round belly. I’m now taking Latuda and mirtazapine.
I am also on Latuda, it has the least weight gain side effects of any antipsychotic during 2018. Mirtzapine is an antidepressant known to cause weight gain. You could ask your doctor if they are willing to prescribe the antidepressant wellbutrin (buproprion) instead. Wellbutrin has no effect on weight, and there are even some people that take wellbutrin for weight loss.
Is it possible to lose weight while on antipsychotics?
Hate to be a downer, but here’s my experience.I was on an antipsychotic for 30 days, in 2007, as much as I could bear. I won’t get into the other horrors, but within an hour of swallowing my first, I had the worst munchies of all time, 24/7. (And I’m a stoner. I know about munchies.)This frightened me so much that I forced myself to eat far less than I usually do, out of fear of fat.Helpfully, I was sleeping about 3 times as much as usual, so at least there were less starving hours in the day than there would have been.I never do eat sugar, or other unhealthily fattening things, and didn’t then, either, though it was unbearably tempting, every minute of the day, and I had difficulty thinking of anything but stuffing my face with sweet doughy substances.Fortunately, I am very disciplined when it comes to diet, and held on then, too, though it felt like an unrewarding superhuman task.Unrewarding because I not only packed on 20 pounds during those 30 days, anyway (20% of my body weight), but my metabolism, which had always been zippy, remained thoroughly destroyed for 5 years, though I was a hardy exerciser.Even 5 years after those horrific 30 days, I was only able to lose the weight and fix my metabolism with the help of an endocrinologist.
Does antipsychotic medication cause weight gain?
i suffer from paranoid schizophrenia and i have been put on a drug called 'Quetiapine' i am on 100mg a day. i told my psychaiatrist that i didnt want to put weight on cause that would make life even worse for me so he reccomended this. I drink loads of water and white tea everyday , i go running and biking and do sit ups , i dont eat a lot and most of its fruit/ veg and fish and rice so why am i putting weight on? i dont have any other health problems so i should be loosing weight.what i want to know is , are the pills slowing down my metabolism or directly putting weight on me. cause im controlling what i put into my body and im pretty much living the life of an anorexic so why arent i getting any slimmer? please help , i want some one to explain how these pills work xx
Can you lose weight after stopping taking antipsychotic drug?
I've heard antipsychotics can cause metabolic syndrome (the editor of the American Journal of Psychiatry says they all do undisputably, there just isn't the hard data) but you were only on it for two months. Plus you only gained 6 pounds. I think that's not enough time or enough weight for you to be in too much trouble. Don't worry.
How do you lose weight from antipsychotic medicines if the side effects are extreme sleepiness and tiredness?
I’m currently eating about a third of the calories I used to simply by cutting out most of the carbohydrates from my diet. I now eat stir fry without the noodles, curry without the rice, sausages wrapped in lettuce leaves instead of buns…the list goes on.I’ve dropped 14lb in the last month or so, and I feel about a hundred times better in terms of energy levels as I don’t have the peaks and troughs from eating bread, pasta and sugar. That said, just be aware that sugar is a natural ‘happy-chemical’ and so if you start feeling down it’s perfectly OK to have some chocolate or a doughnut. ;)N.B. I am not a doctor, so if you try this and don’t feel good then please go back to what you were eating before and/or see your GP.
Risperdal and antipsychotics?
Well I'm going to put in my 2 cents worth in an assesment of risperdal (resperidone). Antipsychotic meds have seemed to be a great help for me. But no anti-psychotic is a "magic bullet." It requires concurrent psychotherapy and self discipline to achieve any results; they just help one recover. I have been on several anti-psychotic meds for over 40 years. I have been on risperidone for over 10 years. I do not drink nor have I ever taken "street drugs". I no longer have hallucinations and they were severe when I first started medication in about 1965. The first anti-psychotic I took (for decades) was Stelazine, which had a bad side effect of tardive diskonesia, which I developed and still have although it was not as severe as some guys I know. I was also on another neuroleptic drug, Trilofon. It too had the side effect of tardive diskonesia. Risperidone is not a neuroleptic but an atypical anti-psychotic. I have had some weight gain from it but that is easily corrected by just "pushing away from the table." It also decreases ones libido but not to the extent you can't function. As for the passivity and agreeableness you experience if it has had that effect on me (i am not an agressive personality by nature) it is a plus effect for me. As for my mind being duller, it isn't in my opinion as I was able to work full time for about 15 years plus attended two universities. I am now a retired biochemist. As I said recovery from hallucinations takes self discipline; that is being very aware (as I was from the start) that the hallucinatory experiences were very unwelcome and quite "other" and not paying any serious attention to the "voices" or visual hallucinations.One should study what is known about the psychology and biochemistry of the disorder. One should not slip into the easy trap of believing there is any meaning to such hallucinations which meanings are delusions. Delusions are merely, I think, the uneducated explanations one naturally forms to explain what is happening to one. The chief cause of recovery, if any, in my disorder was due, I think, to the Tender Loving Care I received from the psychiatric staff, especially nurses, and my family while I was both an inpatient and outpatient. I am still an outpatient on risperidal.. Good luck in your recovery, good health, peace and love!
How do you lose weight while on psychiatric medications?
Ok, I won't tell you to get off of you medications but I will tell you to watch them very closely. Meaning every 3 months verify if anything has changed in their application for the given malady it is to correct. AND do not ask you doctor do your own independent research. Then if their any findings bring them to your doctor. More often then not they will not be up on what is breaking news on any particular drug. As for losing weight it is the same with everybody else. It does not matter what drugs you are on, if you do not eat excess calories you will not gain weight. Drugs cannot manufacture calories nor prevent the use of them. They may mess with your metabolism but again they cannot manufacture calories. Cutting out all processed foods should get you off to a great start. Packaged salad is not processed food, where as multi grain whole wheat bread is.