Posted by NikkiT2 on September 11, 2001, at 6:52:55
In reply to Re: Anyone NOT gain weight on ZYPREXA?-Greg,, posted by Zo on September 10, 2001, at 21:55:58
After a nightmare effexor weight gain, I finally started getting my weight under control (no more weight gain and slowly started coming off) and then I started on Zyprexa... I am hungry ALL the time.. I wake up in the night famished.. its a total nightmare... theres only so many carrots you can eat before going orange, I swear!!!
Luckily the gym I am a member of (haven;t visisted for 6 months as it was next to work) is opening a branch near my flat - Just dying for it to open so I can start going...
Nikki
> Despite a boringly healthy diet, of all whole foods, and the same exercise as before, I gained more than 60lbs with Zyprexa. And wanted so much to stay on it, I *combed* the web. . and found nothing. Not a thing. Except plaintive cries; I'm 50 lbs heavier, I've gained 80. Everywhere, it was women who said it was, like me, the best med they'd ever been on -- and the weight gain was killing them.
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> In this case, literally: it's all insulin fat, which puts you at risk for Type I Diabetes and heart attack. Manufacturer NOW says, Take 300mg Axid twice a day, even pretreat, prevents weght gain is a certain %.
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> But what we have here is a *problem.* Geodon was developed and is marketed as the alternative to Zyprexa. . .but they're not remotely interchangable.
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> I don't know how much stringent appetite control would have helped. With me, it was an overall low-blood-sugar type hunger, I was just simply famished. Well beyond "carbo cravings."
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> And I almost considered life as a fat person, I felt *so* good otherwise. Then my pdoc suggested taking it with Glucophage. Let me know when you find the answer! For now, I'm on Buprenorphine, and hardly hungry. It's been a *very* pleasant med, for me.
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> Good luck!
> Zo
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