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Tenex and weight gain~when to d/c medication cause of weight gain?
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<blockquote data-quote="lmf64" data-source="post: 317970" data-attributes="member: 7736"><p>I'm going another way here. When was the Abilify added? Was there a recent increase in dosage? My son has been on Abilify two seperate times. The first time he was on it he gained 80 pounds in 9 months and then stabalized at that weight (minor year to year increase, but nothing unusual because he was also getting taller at the same time) for the next 3 years. He was then taken off of it because we didn't think he needed it any longer and were trying to get the number of medications he was taking down. One year later (almost to the day) he was back on it and gained 80 pounds in 5 months at which point we said it had to go, we didn't have time to wait to see if he leveled out because he was showing the early signs of developing diabetes from it. The literature with Abilify used to say it wouldn't cause weight gain or didn't say anything about weight gain as a possible side effect, but difficult child's psychiatrist said that every child she had used it with wound up with massive weight gain as a direct cause and effect basis. I loved the Abilify for what it helped my son to do, but will never again allow it to be prescribed because it was killing my son slowly. We switched to Geodon and although the literature says weight gain is a possible side effect difficult child has lost weight since he began taking it and my grocery bill has gone down too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lmf64, post: 317970, member: 7736"] I'm going another way here. When was the Abilify added? Was there a recent increase in dosage? My son has been on Abilify two seperate times. The first time he was on it he gained 80 pounds in 9 months and then stabalized at that weight (minor year to year increase, but nothing unusual because he was also getting taller at the same time) for the next 3 years. He was then taken off of it because we didn't think he needed it any longer and were trying to get the number of medications he was taking down. One year later (almost to the day) he was back on it and gained 80 pounds in 5 months at which point we said it had to go, we didn't have time to wait to see if he leveled out because he was showing the early signs of developing diabetes from it. The literature with Abilify used to say it wouldn't cause weight gain or didn't say anything about weight gain as a possible side effect, but difficult child's psychiatrist said that every child she had used it with wound up with massive weight gain as a direct cause and effect basis. I loved the Abilify for what it helped my son to do, but will never again allow it to be prescribed because it was killing my son slowly. We switched to Geodon and although the literature says weight gain is a possible side effect difficult child has lost weight since he began taking it and my grocery bill has gone down too. [/QUOTE]
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