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Old Aug 04, 2021, 02:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Moose72 View Post
Once you are off the Valium, you may get your appetite back and therefore gain a little bit of the weight back. I wish I could just eat rice cakes and lose weight, but Seroquel makes me eat real meals. For example, for lunch I had half a can of chicken with mayo and 4 Lorna Dune cookies. (They are small.) And a caffeine-free diet Coke.
I don’t think my doctor is planning on taking me off the Valium. He’s a pretty big pill pusher and is fine with me being on Valium and other benzos.

My old insurance asked me awhile ago if I could switch to seroquel instead of Geodon. I told them to go shove it. I’m never taking that stuff. Especially with all the horror stories I’ve read on this site about it.

They asked if I’d be willing to switch to either seroquel or risperdal. I knew a girl with an underweight BMI because of an eating disorder and she went on risperdal. And no joke, in just a month she had an obese BMI. I mean she went from being tiny to being huge in like 33 days.

My doctor did try putting me on lexapro last summer but I told him no that I didn’t want to gain weight. And he respected that. So we tried Wellbutrin but it made me too anxious and then my therapist told him about my food restriction and he took me off that and my topamax but then I still continued to lose weight. So idk

But he understands that if I gain weight my mental health will get really bad. So I’d rather deal with the effects of my disorders then the weight gain from meds.
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