Some meds are just weird bordering the supernatural.

I was poor when I was put on Risperdal, so the first week I basically only had the med and no food. Yet I managed to gain 2 pounds a day without eating. Like... wow! Was that all water? IDK...

When I was on Geodon I felt hungry all the time, not like craving a snack type feeling, but roaring hunger like my body told me I was starving. I was disciplined. I didn't eat many calories. So I didn't gain. But the hunger was so bad, it never ever stopped. So I told me, just for one day, I'll eat until I'm full, just to satisfy me one single time.

After three huge dinners later, my stomach was still roaring with hunger, even if there was my physical space left in it....

Then, my med suddenly changed its effect without me doing anything, it started giving me such bad side effects I was in a constant state of panic. The hunger disappeared. I basically just sat and shook in panic for two months straight, I got off the med after a while realizing it was the med causing my panic. Now I had to force myself to eat. And drink. I drank way too little. I ate one cup of soup a day for two months, if I could stomach it that day. They were less than 300 calories.

When I finally felt better, I thought, I wonder if I at least lost some weight from that horrible experience. I had. 7 pounds. Oddly little! I guess being on the med made me not lose.