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Is Risperdal worth the weight gain??
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<blockquote data-quote="Christy" data-source="post: 324120" data-attributes="member: 225"><p>Risperdal has been a lifesaving medication for our difficult child. His tantrums, destruction and violence made it impossible for him to stay in our home. After a fourth psychiatric hospital stay, the doctor put him back on risperdal (He'd been on it several years ago.) and the difference was night and day. He is doing remarkably well now and so for us, the weight gain and potential health problems that could result are worth it. I do worry though. He has gained a moderate amount of weight (He weighed 85 pounds when he began the taking it in May and now weighs 105 pounds in December). You wouldn't consider him fat to look at him but his whole body shape has changed. He used to be so lean his jeans hung on his hips and now his has a small gut. He has also gained quite a bit of weight through his thighs and actually has stretch marks on his hips and thighs. He went from being fit looking to kind of "doughy". We have tried to become more physically active as a family, keep healthy foods on hand as well as the junk food, and I buy a lot of different flavors of sugarless gum for him to chew when he is hungry but has already eaten enough. We try to get the point across that even though he feels hungry, he doesn't always need to eat and should try to distract himself from eating by doing other things. Sometimes it works and sometimes being hungry makes him really angry so I will try and pull together a quick meal rather than having him eat junk. Then he seems to move on rather than getting caught up in the need to snack constantly. I worry about him developing type II diabetes and would hate for him to have the added stigma of obesity in addition to all his other problems BUT the improvement in his behavior is dramatic and allows him to get so much more out of life so we will try to keep the weight gain at bay and pray that risperdal continues to work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Christy, post: 324120, member: 225"] Risperdal has been a lifesaving medication for our difficult child. His tantrums, destruction and violence made it impossible for him to stay in our home. After a fourth psychiatric hospital stay, the doctor put him back on risperdal (He'd been on it several years ago.) and the difference was night and day. He is doing remarkably well now and so for us, the weight gain and potential health problems that could result are worth it. I do worry though. He has gained a moderate amount of weight (He weighed 85 pounds when he began the taking it in May and now weighs 105 pounds in December). You wouldn't consider him fat to look at him but his whole body shape has changed. He used to be so lean his jeans hung on his hips and now his has a small gut. He has also gained quite a bit of weight through his thighs and actually has stretch marks on his hips and thighs. He went from being fit looking to kind of "doughy". We have tried to become more physically active as a family, keep healthy foods on hand as well as the junk food, and I buy a lot of different flavors of sugarless gum for him to chew when he is hungry but has already eaten enough. We try to get the point across that even though he feels hungry, he doesn't always need to eat and should try to distract himself from eating by doing other things. Sometimes it works and sometimes being hungry makes him really angry so I will try and pull together a quick meal rather than having him eat junk. Then he seems to move on rather than getting caught up in the need to snack constantly. I worry about him developing type II diabetes and would hate for him to have the added stigma of obesity in addition to all his other problems BUT the improvement in his behavior is dramatic and allows him to get so much more out of life so we will try to keep the weight gain at bay and pray that risperdal continues to work. [/QUOTE]
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