Weight Loss After Zyprexa

This weight gain can vary from none at all to a few pounds in a month or even 10 pounds in a week.

Weight loss after zyprexa. Zyprexa and weight gain. These include reduced insulin. I achieve this through limiting my calories to 1400 and now within the last month i have changed to a completely vegan and no junk food no oil diet.

Weight was recorded at 3 6 and 12 months. After all these medicines can help reduce hallucinations and delusions that weight loss after stopping zyprexa feb 20 2014. I am on a very low dose.

Many people who take zyprexa report that their appetite is uncontrollable. I have been taking zyprexa for several years now and have accumulated about 60 pounds in excess weight. If you were switching to a different antipsychotic medication your psychiatristâ might advise you to stop suddenly so you could start taking the other drug without mixing the two but for completelyâ stopping zyprexa.

I track my food daily on a weight loss website so i can make sure i am hitting all my nutritional goals. I m now stopping the medication safely with a psychiatrist and i was wondering how fast you lose the weight you gained. Zyprexa and other antipsychotic drugs have been linked to metabolic changes.

Weight gain is the most common side effect reported in patients who take zyprexa. I have lost 42 pounds since starting zyprexa in the middle of march. Patients incurred an average weight loss of 2 7 0 7 kg p 0 001 after switching patients from olanzapine sot to olanzapine odt at 12 months.

Finally they tested the program with patients who were just starting on some of the medications that are known to cause weight gain including seroquel quetiapine risperdal risperidone clozaril clozapine and zyprexa olanzapine. However significant weight loss was achieved as early as 3 months. Research to prevent weight gain.