[TakingMyMeds]

So I've lost weight while on Risperdal before. After my initial diagnosis (Psychosis) I was placed on Haldol and switch to 2 mg of Risperdal because I couldn't function like a normal person. While on 2 mg I was able to lose 50 pounds by eating right and working out.

A few years later i had the bright idea to try & figure out if I could go off my meds because I really wanted to know if it happened because of laced weed like everyone else said or if the weed just triggered something in my brain and I needed it. I got down to .25 mg or .5 mg and started hearing voices so i went up to 1 mg with my psychiatrist but it wasn't working quick enough so and i ended up being hospitalized and raised to 5 mg.

After being on 5 mg for a bit I decided to go back to 2 mg because it worked & I was able to lose weight. I gained now 60 pounds and I'm at 2.5 mg. I'm hoping/thinking that once I get back to 2 mg I'll be able to lose weight again. Everywhere I look people say that they could not lose weight on Risperdal but I've done it before.

Has anyone else been able to lose weight on Risperdal?

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I'm on 5 mg a day of Risperidone, and I'm successfully losing weight. I'm working with a dietician, on eating more healthily and I'm slowly starting to walk regularly. The weight loss is slow but definite. In the last 3 months, I've lost 14 lbs.

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[TakingMyMeds]

Wow. Ok! I am so glad that you told me this because everywhere I look people always say that you cant do it. So I started to fear that it was impossible and that maybe the first time it happened because of the drastic difference between haldol and risperdal.

Thanks for the hope!

[Mountainbard]

That's outstanding! Congratulations... and slow but steady is the way to go with weight loss.