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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 399024" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>I've taken both Zyprexa and Seroquel and BOTH of them not only put on about 60lbs (in total), but I developed a really scary sideeffect to both medications: basically incoordination of the involuntary muscles used in swallowing and to a lesser degree breathing. Very scary and my psychiatrist had only heard of a few cases and he's been in practice for better than thirty years.</p><p></p><p>It was decided it was too risky to play around with other APs, and I was put on HALDOL...yep, good ol' fashioned medication alright.</p><p></p><p>Thorazine is closely related to Haldol and is weight neutral. In fact. Haldol at least can cause loss of appetite in a lot of people.</p><p></p><p>I've managed to finally lose a few lbs of all that weight I put on, and that's battleing the Depakote carb cravings as well.</p><p></p><p>ALL of the old-line APs carry Tardive Dyskinasia (Involuntary movements of muscle groups such as the tongue or face, even limbs) as a risk, but TD usually only shows up at very high doses given over long periods of time. I take a low dose of the medication and it works well enough that I am sort of POed about having "had" to try the atypicals first.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 399024, member: 1963"] I've taken both Zyprexa and Seroquel and BOTH of them not only put on about 60lbs (in total), but I developed a really scary sideeffect to both medications: basically incoordination of the involuntary muscles used in swallowing and to a lesser degree breathing. Very scary and my psychiatrist had only heard of a few cases and he's been in practice for better than thirty years. It was decided it was too risky to play around with other APs, and I was put on HALDOL...yep, good ol' fashioned medication alright. Thorazine is closely related to Haldol and is weight neutral. In fact. Haldol at least can cause loss of appetite in a lot of people. I've managed to finally lose a few lbs of all that weight I put on, and that's battleing the Depakote carb cravings as well. ALL of the old-line APs carry Tardive Dyskinasia (Involuntary movements of muscle groups such as the tongue or face, even limbs) as a risk, but TD usually only shows up at very high doses given over long periods of time. I take a low dose of the medication and it works well enough that I am sort of POed about having "had" to try the atypicals first. [/QUOTE]
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