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Originally Posted by wildflowerchild25
RS ended up coming straight back home because his flaky friend wasn’t even there when he got to his shop. He knew I was upset and when his friend didn’t even show up (it had been an hour since he first requested help) RS just said screw it snd came home and. We went out to this wildflower preserve and walked around for awhile which I think is just what I needed. It is beautiful out today, very nice day to be outside, especially compared to the last few days with extreme heat. I feel much better now and RS feels better that he decided to spend time with us instead of waiting for his friend to show up.
As for the craving and constant bingeing, I think I figured that out! I was like damn I just feel like I do when I have PMS but all the time now. You know when else I felt like that? All the time I was on risperidone, paliperidone and haldol. All of them skyrocketed my prolactin. It would absolutely make sense that I did not start out with this eating behavior, that it’s been building the longer I take seroquel.
It’s pretty messed up because seroquel is one of the AP’s that’s not supposed to raise prolactin. But apparently if you have a sensitivity, which I seem to have, it still can.
So I have a dr appt next Friday and I’m going to ask her to order a blood test for prolactin. If I’m right I’ll have to go back to the endocrinologist and see if there’s anything they can do medication wise. I can’t get off the seroquel, it’s the only thing that works. So I’m also going to have to just try some behavioral skills to beat back the cravings and binge eating behavior.
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Hi wildflowerchild. Everyone has their own journey with medications, but I do encourage you to give those behavioral skills you mention a try. I can say that over time, with various strategies, Seroquel XR (as opposed to regular iR) has been relatively weight neutral for me. Sometimes when my dose goes up I struggle a little for a bit, but then things even out again. That, or when my dose decreases slightly again, any hunger issues ease. For me, timing of taking the med has been crucial. Also, pre-planning any snacks to be "better choices". After all, sometimes the hunger is just plain there. Deprivation, for me, makes me more vulnerable to eating less "friendly" foods. What the satisfying, yet still friendly, foods for you might be, is up to you to find. I am a real lover of yogurt. That not only satisfies me, but helps me fall asleep, too.
I was also always sensitive to prolactin increasing medications. Luckily, Seroquel and Seroquel XR did not increase it. Nor has Seroquel ever caused me akathisia or other types of EPS symptoms, like other APs have. Truly, once I triumphed a bit over temporary appetite increases (and initial over sedation), I found Seroquel XR to be multitudes better than the rest, in so many respects. I hope you can work out these challenges, as well.