Posted by delna on October 18, 2009, at 11:54:15
In reply to Abilify weight gain dose related?, posted by Phil on October 12, 2009, at 18:09:38
Phil,
I never tried abilify long enough for it to cause cause weight gain or to do anything at all. But i do believe it behaves like all atypicals.
I was on Geodon for 2 years. I started at 40mg (bear minimum dose) on which I gained around 10 ++ pounds really rapidly. Then it stabilized at this new weight.
At some point later my pdoc took me all the way up to 160mg and I didn't notice any additional weight gain. I had been worried about this and he told me that you gain weight just bu having the drug in your system. Raising the dose will have a marginal effect, if any. I personally found no connection at all.
This was the same with Zyprexia. The weight piled on fast and with a vengeance but then plateaued out. Dose changes made little difference much to my disappointment as I had hoped that lowering the dose would mean I lost the weight but that didn't happen at all. It .only went when I stopped the drug
Hope that helps
TC
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