So you have not changed any of your diet or activity levels while on Lithium I take it? But all of a sudden your gaining massive amounts of weight? How much are we talking here?

I'm a new patient on Lithium myself, and next week I move to a higher dosage. In preperation for this I went ahead and changed my lifestyle in the past month. For one thing I'm already over weight and I wanted to lose weight so I combined a variety of diets into my own custom style that works, and so far have lost 20lbs and 3 inches off my waist. I also drink around 80-100 ounces of water a day and stopped all soda or sugar laced beverages. (I drink tons of green tea too)

Anyhow the only advice I can give from talking with many informative members here is you have to watch your diet and change some things up. Also take in much more water then you probley are use too. Light excercise can also help obviously. But yes one of the effects of Lithium is weight gain so you have to go to war and make a healthier life style for yourself.

If anyone wants to know what I did to lose weight and some tips let me know, I have finally after 5 years of trying found something that works. And as for Twirls, you gotta be careful of your diet and drink tons of water while on this drug.

Good Luck to you, we are all with you!

Mark