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<blockquote data-quote="confuzzled" data-source="post: 602674" data-attributes="member: 8831"><p>in its class, its one of the "lesser gainers"....both abilify and Geodon are touted as weight neutral. </p><p></p><p>but mine had the same issues that yours does-packed on the weight, starving constantly, etc. I asked about switching to Geodon and our psychiatrist felt that they are similar enough that if you have the issue with one, you'll have the same with the other, so we stayed with abilify. </p><p></p><p>frankly, I could offer all the healthy snacks in the world--it didn't curb the weight gain, it just meant she ate a whole head of broccoli for a snack and was still starving ;-).</p><p></p><p>the only real thing that worked for us was the addition of focalin for her adhd-they sort of balanced each other (mine *truly* has an accurate, separate adhd diagnosis so it was very appropriate in her case).</p><p></p><p></p><p>but like you guys, we are weaning off abilify slowly and hoping to be done completely over the next year or so. so far, so good but its summer and who knows what the pressures of school will do to that plan. i'm hoping and pretzeling its all the right thing....</p><p></p><p></p><p>sorry your plan isn't working as well, but better to realize that now I guess than in sept!</p><p></p><p>(my sig isn't up to date--we are down to 5mg of abilify after a few months at 7.5)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="confuzzled, post: 602674, member: 8831"] in its class, its one of the "lesser gainers"....both abilify and Geodon are touted as weight neutral. but mine had the same issues that yours does-packed on the weight, starving constantly, etc. I asked about switching to Geodon and our psychiatrist felt that they are similar enough that if you have the issue with one, you'll have the same with the other, so we stayed with abilify. frankly, I could offer all the healthy snacks in the world--it didn't curb the weight gain, it just meant she ate a whole head of broccoli for a snack and was still starving ;-). the only real thing that worked for us was the addition of focalin for her adhd-they sort of balanced each other (mine *truly* has an accurate, separate adhd diagnosis so it was very appropriate in her case). but like you guys, we are weaning off abilify slowly and hoping to be done completely over the next year or so. so far, so good but its summer and who knows what the pressures of school will do to that plan. i'm hoping and pretzeling its all the right thing.... sorry your plan isn't working as well, but better to realize that now I guess than in sept! (my sig isn't up to date--we are down to 5mg of abilify after a few months at 7.5) [/QUOTE]
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