Posted by Lisa P on March 9, 2003, at 11:07:12
In reply to Re: starting on Serequel » Lisa P, posted by KrissyP on March 9, 2003, at 1:07:43
Kristen,
I was on 150mg of the Lamictal for a year - I was taking it with Zyprexa but I gained 25lb in 8 weeks so I discontinued the Zyprexa. The Lamictal didn't cause weight gain but it also didn't help me and I had 2 manic episodes on it, so I stopped taking it and switched to Geodon. I thought that the Lamictal made me feel not so depressed, but at the same time my distance vision got blurry from it and has since never cleared up all of the way.
Lisa
> Hi Lisa,
> Yes the Seroquel just made me feel really hungry causing me to eat more-really hungry. I hate to say this, BUT a lot of shrinks and psychiatrists when starting their patients on a possible weight-gainer med, tend to fib a little-after all, they don't know-everyone is different, and they may not want their patients to NOT give these meds a try-to not worry. Understandable.I think they do this because they have no other idea and want to see how a patient does on a med. Does that make sense? It's just my opinion and I feel very strongly about it-it has happened to me a lot. What dose of Lamictal are you on? Are you taking it now? With me, the "zombue" feeling with Seroquel lasted quite a while about 6 months to be exact. I was then cut down a little on it though.
> Since I have decreased it to 100mg from 200mg-YEP I don't feel at all as zombie-like as I used to.
> Hope this helped?
> Hang in there and please keep me posted:-)
> Kristen
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> Hi Kristen. I'm on the Serequel because I get manic - I'm bipolar but w/o the depression. I get depressed at times but I'm good at hiding it from people. My shrink doesn't want to tell me what to do as far as when to increase/decrease drugs because I guess he thinks that I can figure it out - he said just to increase the Serequel by 50 and decrease the Geodon by 20 whenever.
> So you didn't have weight gain problems until you reached 200mg? 40lb sounds awful. Did the Serequel just make you feel really hungry causing you to eat more, or did the weight gain just appear? My shrink says that of the 30 people that he has on the Serequel, only one person gained more than 10lb, but I think that just sounds too good to be true. I'm not one of those people who gains a few lb - other than Geodon and Lamictal I've always gained at least 25lb on a drug and then I would discontinue it and would have another manic episode.
> So how long did that zombie like feeling last? I had that a lot on the Geodon, and it took about 3 months to go away. I'm hoping that if I don't go up too fast on the Serequel that I won't have that happen. Does the Serequel still have that sedated feeling, even after you've taken it for awhile? I guess eveyone tolerates drugs differently, so I probably won't find out a lot of these things until I try taking more of the Serequel. Thanks.
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