My Support Forums - View Single Post - Doctors and therapists don’t care about weight gain?

*Beth* · Dec 28, 2019, 03:52 PM

I have not met even one pdoc who seems to give a flying eff about med weight gain, and that angers me to no end. Before I was on Seroquel I weighed 110lbs. I'm 5'6". I was thin - too thin. Well, I've gained an immense amount of weight on Seroquel. The whole time I was on it (7 years) I told the 3 pdocs I saw that I was extremely concerned about the weight gain. I swear, they'd look at me blankly like I was speaking Martian. I assume they didn't believe that I had been so thin.

I now weigh 265lbs. My cholesterol is elevated, my bp is up, my glucose is borderline diabetic. I have chronic pain in my legs and back from the weight gain.

So now I finally insisted to be taken off of Seroquel...and my pdoc put me on Zyprexa. And Metformin, 2 meds to lower my blood pressure and has mentioned a statin to lower my cholesterol. For the chronic pain, ibuprofen.

My therapist...all she'll do is nod sympathetically, then tell me that I need to speak with Dr. W. about the medication issues.

I'm furious and I feel defeated. I've gained 10 lbs. this year. I feel like I'm starving hungry ALL of the time. The Metformin helped decrease my appetite for 3 wonderful days.

The worst, worst part of it all is that I don't think the Zyprexa is doing jack shite. Oh, it's deadened my creativity. I'm an artist and that was the biggest thing that enriched my life. Now I don't even have that.

I'm sorry for this vent. I am just so, so, so frustrated. Everything GOOD stolen away and the BAD barely gone.

I next see my pdoc in 5 days. I'm planning on stopping the Zyprexa now & see how I feel in 5 days. Also, I can cancel and reschedule for the following week. I'm ready to lie to her, do whatever it takes. Because this weight gain is going to kill me, seriously. Kind of ridiculous, isn't it? "They're suicidal so we give them medication that kills them".

Rant over