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ross Says:
Is anyone else experiencing weight gain from seroquel? I still work out the same as always, and eat the same way, but I have gained over 20 pounds since i started seroquel 2 months ago. I dont want to stop taking it becasue i finally found a drug that helps, but this is an unacceptable side effect to me, anyone have any tips for dealing with this?
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I also gained alot of weight on it. 85 pounds in 4 months for me i was on 400 mlgs now i take only 50 mlgs because its very hard to get off of plus my psychiatrist Put me on Topamax and I've lost 70 pounds in 4 months. Plus it still helps.
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MsBehavin Says:
hi i feel your pain i started seroquel 600mg back in october last year, i was 55kgs and underweight and then suddenly since jan 14 i have put on 15kgs in about 3wks, i feel disgusted with myself and my weight and cannot figure how to get rid it, i feel like a piece of jelly and thew fact i piles kgs on in a few days has freaked me out, i have a belly that i have never had in my life and i'm pretty mortified with it all. Seroquel is bad for making you also crave sugar but try to stop eating stuff with sugar the weight gain is no different
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orozcoc Says:
I been on sequel for over 5 years and never has issues with weigh gain. I am a weight loss surgery participant so this might be the reason why?
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kathleen Says:
i think it will get worse. i was on lihtium and after losing 168 lbs on wieght watchers for two years my doc put me on lithium and i gained it all back. now after a week of seraquel at one hundred for three days and now two hundred for the rest of treatment i have gained four pounds. so i have been on it for four days. and four pounds. if i keep gaining weight i am going off the drug as it won't get better. you will just baloon up and keep gaining weight,
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kathleen Says:
that made me laugh. that you take it and then pass out. my dr put me on 200 mgs in teh morning i went back to bed after getting up at eight am and then went back to bed at nine thirty. i woke up at two and went back to bed around four pm then i slept till eight. and i have gained four pounds so far in two weeks. i was on lihtium and gained 80 lbs in seven months. so i am not going to stay on this if i keep gaining weight.
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sick of medication Says:
thank you i gained 27lbs first month now about 100. cannot seem to loose will note your protein info
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sick of medication Says:
i cannot imagine you taking adderall and seraqual from the same Dr...adderall is the reason I'm on seraqual.
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Cheryl Says:
visteril does not work for everybody...Benadryl makes me wide awake....
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A Miller Says:
I get that..I think I must snore like a bull moose! My nose gets so stopped up..and nothing helps! My husband has started to sleep upstairs! Not only that..I went from a size 10 to a size 18 in less than a year. I am on disabiltiy, and seroquel is awesome for me in that respect, I have actually gone back to college (mostly online) and have an Associates degree now I have started to plateau and am losing a bit at a time..it's the only drug that has really worked for me..I am so hooked on this drug, one day without and I have HUGE issues..(600mg a day) Any ideas on another good mix would be great, but actually, I take Pristiq, Wellbrutrin, The Seroquel,and a small dose of Respridol, and Campral. I am 44 and wish I was in better health.
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SydB Says:
I have been on seroquel for over two years. I started with 300 mg and it worked wonders for me. But within six months I had gained 40 lbs even with regular exercise and not changing my pretty healthy diet. I talked to my doctor and she really encouraged me to minimize carbs and focus on portion sizes.
If I'm not strictly dieting, I'm gaining weight. My weight can never just stay the same. Its very frustrating. But after really cutting my portions and carbs, I've lost about 20 lbs.
Out of all the diets I've tried, low carb seems to be the ticket. My doc recommended south beach diet, stating that many patients on seroquel do well on it. Good luck!
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Ratlover Says:
I have been on the 12.5 seroquel for about a month now and no weight gain. I did loose five pounds because i cut out sugar totally and my appetite is as always.
I really think that the dosage has to do with this drug. Since i am bi-polar and tend to have problems with sleep and anxiety attacks and mania a anti-depressant is out of the question. I am on 900 mg of lithium to control the mood swings but it is a low dose and to save my kidneys and liver in the future my doc suggested a little seroquel to help the lithium work. It is and since I haven't gained a pound so far I am hoping for the best.
It seems we are all just different when it comes to this drug.
Be well
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Ronnie Says:
Me ! My doctor is checking me for edema because my feet and ankles are HUGE! My weight gain has also been huge! Gaining about 60 pounds. I am livid as to why my psychiatrist would think Seroquel would be a good choice when he knows that for me to be gaining weight, that is a no no!!
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ratlover Says:
visteril is a stong antihistamine. No side effects and I find it to be about as strong as 75 mg of benedryl. If you are used to xanex and drugs like that to sleep you'll have to take both. It didn't work for me by itself.
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justin Says:
Yeah I have gained about 10 pds, I take one 300 mg a day, well actually I break it up into 3 doses because it always makes my nose so stoped up I can't breath...
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Ratlover Says:
I just started 25mg of seroquel at night and it has been a god send. I was experiencing such anxiety I was ready to go to the hospital. I take it with lithium 900 mg at night and .50 mg zanex. My sleep is improved but it doesn't knock me out and after 3 nights Im actually eating less. down to one meal a day. I'm wondering if since I am so calm after only 25 mg that at 400 mg I would stop exercising due to lack of energy and weight would come on. I wonder if it is the dosage that affects the weight gain.
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A Says:
I have been on Seroquel mixed up with some other drugs, for 2 years now. I have gained over 90 pds. which is so hard to take, but the drug is the best I have ever had..I actually feel quite normal, and even being mentally disabled, It has helped so much!
I am trying to continue my education.
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Mayagurl222 Says:
I have been taking Seroquel for several months now, 300mg at night. I had the same issue my weight started going up I gained 6 kilograms a month. I decided this was unacceptable to allow to continue as I am very careful about eating healthy, and am normally an active person. I found that in order to lose weight on this drug, you need to be exercising heavily (45 minutes to an hour a day) and regularly. I also started taking a non stimulant weight loss supplement which is helping . I agree this drug does help what it is prescribed for but it is a pain because of the constant battle dealing with the side effects.
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Cheryl Says:
I have to tell you that I know exactly how you feel.....I've been on so many meds over the course of many years trying to treat the chronic insominia that I have battled for years on end which totally screws up my quality of life.....I recently went thru SO many huge life changes over the last 3 years that I wanted to trow in the towel; had to close my business after 18 years due to the economy, forced into early retirement, seek disability for a chronic health problem, the death of a 30 year marriage that I didn't see coming, moving to a new town where I hardly knew a soul and the death of my dear Mom from breast cancer, so it has been a difficult road that has been really tough. Now I finally feel like I'm getting my life in order EXCEPT for the chronic condition of insomnia which I refer to as hell....I was on Trazadone, something else (dang, what was it) that eludes me now plus ambien at night....it was working like a champ until I had a nerve block in my hip for another issue (I have IC a chronic bladder problem which without this implant near my bk right hip that sends pulses to the bladder to make things work ok, which it is, but my back constantly hurts because of the placement)...Anyway, after the nerve block (a steroid of some sort) ALL my meds stopped working and my taste buds shut down, that all happened the first week in JUne....I can't make my Doctor understand that I really do go as many as 7 or more nights without sleep, he doesn't want to up the Trzodone, so he puts me on Seroquel, at a low dose of 50mg/nite which I had taken b4 years ago at a low dose that I knew wouldn't work.....so I decided to see what would work for me, well it's 100mg of Seroquel, two (2) 1mg alprazolam (Xanax) and one (1) ambien.....it works, but in the last week I can pretty much see myself gaining weight (I'm 5'7', 125 lbs and that is my ideal weight), I'm mortified.....not to mention I'm in NY visiting my daughter, away from home in AR...so I call the dr. and he wants me to try Vistaril (Hydroxyzine, 22.5mg)....does anyone know about that med. I'm almost certain I have taken it before. I should also mention that I can take 5mg of Xanax and get a good nap....so I'm think I'm gonna try that do 4 1mg Xanax and 1 Ambien for the next nite or 2 to see if that will work for me.....I'm desperate, as I know many of us are when we are seeking sleep. I'm nervous about taking a new drug when I am away from home......I should also mention that I constantly research, read and seek reviews from others trying to figure all this out...
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sheilajo Says:
Unfortuneately?...Almost All psych meds cause weight...I did take one that I liked and
I didn't gain weight..It was celexa
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