Seroquel is a hard craving, late night eating, carb filling drug!!!!

Over years on meds, including Seroquel - I gained weight about 5 or 10 pounds a year... Highest 235, average for 10 years 200lbs...

Well, this past year - on Seroquel - no changes, I've lost 50lbs and kinda reset by body, I've been 150 know at least 6-10 months..

So, it is a BIG one for weight gain, shit - you can eat in your sleep on it!!! LOL But I'm walking, talking proof you can lose weight on meds : )

I remember being told that it could be dose-related, to some extent, so maybe a reduction could help with weight gain?

I'm going off risperdal and I gained a bunch on it (well, it and depakote), but it's not yet coming off despite diet and exercise. I might not know because of the depakote anyway if getting off an anti-psychotic or reducing it can reverse the weight gain. I have had nothing but trouble with the anti-psychotics.

In my experience the only way is to go off the drug comepletely. Having said that I recently went back on respiridal and it has increased my appetite for fruit and veg big time. I'm thinking of taking a small holiday from it (pdoc'ssuggestion). I will let you know how this goes.

The drugs make it hard - wanting to eat, and lethagic or zombie - but it is impossible not to lose weight, if you eat less than you burn!

Again, I'm on all that jazz- lost 50lbs, low carbs and not eating at midnight! I had to tell myself a 100 times a day the reminder YOU ARE NOT HUNGRY!

((((BIG HUG))))) DD - a member here, used to ALWAYS point out to me about no losing weight on Deprakote and others, and she starting a Walking DVD - lost a bunch also..

It's not easy for us on meds - but totally possible! LMAO I Never have been on diet - this one I"m telling you about! My first DIET ever, and again - it wasn't a diet - just cut all sugar and flour out ....

I so wish you luck - my back used to go out a lot, the weight loss - hardly ever!!!! I feel better in my clothes too : ) Less elastic! LOL

I'm cracking up - I won't take my night time meds for two or three hours, but OMG! I have the munchies and just keep wanting to head into that kitchen.....

Oy veh - its not easy at all! I'm probably going to lose this battle but I'm fighting it now : )

gina, fruit, fruit, fruit!
and a few walnuts.

i started gainin weight & im w Gina, its all diet & eating good. i think it depends on the dose too. not sure how high up ya are. i get very hungry too after takin it so i try ta keep healthy food in the place

i ride my bike lots too, so that might help me anyway.

I kept gaining and it didn't seem dose dependant. I gained 30 lbs. Im on a modified Medifast plan and using My Fitness Pal to log my 1200 calories....so far losing weight really well. Previously no matter what I did I gained or plateaued.

Ok. I never had a weight problem. Not ever. That is how I preface this. I HAVE ONE NOW.

While Gina has a point, that yes, it is harder to gain weight when you are watching your diet, multiple doctors have told me and it is my personal experience that it is STILL POSSIBLE because of these medications.

I gained a LOT of weight immediately after being put on seroquel. Mostly because I was hungry all the time and just was constantly putting food in my mouth. After 12 years of being on these drugs, I had gained 125 lbs at my highest weight but had been up and down all over the scale in the interim. I think the initial hunger that the drugs created taught me some pretty horrible eating habits (Pizza delivers till 2 am! Woo hoo! Let's eat a whole one!) and I have been learning to correct those. So I have lost 82 lbs in about a year and a half because of diet and exercise.

I seem to have hit a wall however and I am still 45 lbs over what I was when I started at. I eat well and exercise A LOT (more than an hour a day) but I am coming to terms with the idea that 178 lbs is as low as I can maintain. My GP says that this may indeed be true, as the drugs can wreak havoc on your metabolism especially considering that I have been on them for over a decade.

So I think the trick is not to develop the eating habits in the first place to avoid massive gains like what I did to myself. Truth be told, however, I look ok at this weight and am fitting into a respectable size in clothing... and my MENTAL HEALTH IS PRICELESS anyway... So... be fat or be unstable? I guess I pick fat!

With me the dosage didn't matter. 50mg was the same as 150 and 300mg. I was hungry all the time.

I used to be on 600 mg of seroquel for years until it finally stopped working and I had to change it. I lost 60 lbs when I was taking it by cutting down portions and walking everyday. But, the 60 lbs I lost I didn't gain until I was on seroquel. I woke up one night with a half-eaten poptart in my hair and don't even remember getting up, lol. I will always think of that med as a weight gain med. best of luck to you!!