[xRavenx]

My weight was stable on 200 mg Seroquel, but I recently went up to 300 mg. My appetite is crazy now, and I gained a few lbs so far over the span of a few weeks. Maybe I should reduce it before it becomes a problem.

Has anyone noticed weight loss once reducing Seroquel dose? I'm thinking about going back down again.

[mote.of.soul]

Increased appetite and therefore weight gain is a notorious side effect l for a lot of Seroquel users xRavenx. After a time, I ended up gaining a ton of weigh from it, with negligible other positive effects - for me. There were other negative effects as well, but that's another story. In the end I got so sick of it all, I consulted my doctor first, then stopped taking it, threw myself into exercise, basically starved myself (not a healthy thing to do but I didn't care) and lost all that excessive weight. Also, reducing the amount of Seroquel didn't reduce the increased appetite side effect at all, from what I remember. Might be different for you though, I'm not sure. 🙏

[*Beth*]

At the risk of repeating myself for the 25th time on this forum regarding Seroquel...I'm 5'6" and when I started taking Seroquel I weighed 110 lbs. Thin, and I had always been thin. In fact, I spent a good deal of my life trying to gain weight. While I was on 350mg. Seroquel I gained over 100lbs. within about 18 months. I felt like I was starving all the time.

As a result of the weight gain my blood pressure went up, as did my glucose and my cholesterol levels.

After 7 years on Seroquel I finally flatly refused to take it anymore - at least not at that high dose. All it ever did for me anyway was help me sleep.

I did lose some weight after stopping Seroquel, maybe 25lbs. so far. I occasionally take 12.5mg. to help my sleep. That dose doesn't make me feel starving hungry.

If I would have known the damage it would do to my health I never would have touched Seroquel.

[Mountaindewed]

I was on it for a bit when I was 13. Just a few months though. I don't remember how much I gained. Maybe 20 or 30. A few years ago when I was on a diffrent insurance they called and asked if I'd be willing to switch from Geodon (which saved my life and I was able to lose a lot of weight on) to Seroquel because it was less expensive. And I basically told them to shove the seroquel up their ***.

[WastingAsparagus]

I was on Seroquel for a while. It controlled my psychotic symptoms pretty well. I don't remember gaining weight on it. I do remember being on a relatively high dose of it. Probably the max dose, I think. Around 800 mg.

[xRavenx]

Thanks everyone. It's so strange for me, because on 200 mg, I actually had lost weight. I was down to 113 lbs and 5'6 (woman), but my weight would fluctuate between that and 118...although there was a time where I was about 125, but at one point I was on 600 mg of Seroquel. Since starting Seroquel 300 mg, I went from 115 to 119.5 in a month and a half. I realize I can probably use the weight gain, but I don't want to continue to keep gaining weight. Maybe since it's only a 100 mg increase, it won't make much of a difference, but I'm just trying to monitor the situation.

[Mountaindewed]

Seriously monitor it though because I knew a girl who went from an underweight BMI to an obese BMI in like 33 days on Risperdal which is just as bad as seroquel.

[Guiness187055]

Seroquel made me want to eat my couch. It gave me diabetes.

[Marilyn2016]

Honest all the way 100...I went to 800mg before being unable to do anything other than eat. In retrospect funny, but at the time I was so angry, because every antipsychotic I have tried ( hoping it could cure 🤪, lol, me so simple...lol), does cause significant weight gain. See a nutritionist if you have to keep buying new clothes !!! Let us know how you get along!!