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Old Oct 14, 2016, 09:43 AM
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Originally Posted by LucyG View Post
As others have mentioned, your problem is the meds.

The thing you need to understand about meds is that they go in and reset the weight set-point in the brain telling it to either gain or lose a certain amount of weight. It's similar to turning up the heat in your home--your furnace runs longer until the room is at the new temperature if you raised it, and shuts off sooner if you turned it down. Same with your weight set-point--you'll be hungrier and want to eat if the med raises your set-point until you gain up to the new weight. If it lowers your set-point, you won't be hungry and will drop weight until you're down to the new set-point. It's virtually impossible to lose the weight when the med has overridden you old weight set-point which is why you're dieting and exercising to no avail.

This is also one reason so many people are morbidly obese in our society today--they're on psych med that have made them gain a ton of weight.

Thanks for this explanation. I really appreciate it. It helps to know the mechanism of action that's causing the problem.

I spoke to my psych nurse and I'm going to start tapering down my dose of Zyprexa and when I see him in a week and a half we are going to discuss a different antipsychotic. Are there any I should ask about that are more weight neutral?
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