weight gain from medication

[Amber98]

I'm on a med called seroquel and in the last three weeks (since an increase in the med) i've gone from 108 to 122 pounds! That's 14 pounds!

And all the weight went only to my stomach, it looks like im pregnant. The meds make me crave sugar and hungry all the time, i binge eat a lot.

My doctor said that the med im on is a weight gaining med, so its normal. Other then that he told me to exercise which i do anyways. The med also makes me really badly constipated and gassy.

I'm going back to my doctor because the weight gain is really fast, people around me are noticing. Is there anything I can ask him to prescribe me?

My daughter, a senior in college went to the student center due to 3 nights insomnia last April.  She had anxiety because after 3 sleepless nights, she couldn't even drive her car.  She is a Chapel HIll student with high grades, a great car and apt,, many friends and on the fast track at 22 to become a museum curator. The student center doctor gave her Seroquel.  After writing a suicide note, my daughter had a nearly successful suicide attempt.  She herself called poison control, just before passing out and said that she'd had 'weird urges to kill herself'.  In the hospital, they told me she had actually been dead.
I worked for a Pharm-D Professor at the time: He said that Seroquel is given to people with ANXIETY all the time and Is not for this.  
My daughter saved herself.  My daughter has experienced alot of shame and pain from all of this.
Alot of doctors have NO IDEA what they are prescribing.  SEROQUEL, is one of the worst drugs that a young woman can take.  There are alternatives.  My daughter has been on zoloft for almost a year and has recovered, but the whole attempt, with 2 nights in a psychiatric unit in a straight jacket and a week hospitalization has been traumatic.  Not to mention, at the time, we were co-erced to put her on 'student insurance' so her insurance was only excellent 'if NOT hospitalized' and the week costs a fortune, for which we are all still paying.  Last I heard my ex-husband and daughter paid 13,000. dollars and they had to cancel her Europe trip.
So much for Seroquel.

[Barb135]

Are you underweight or have an eating disorder?  If not, ask your doctor if there's another medication that will do the same thing, without causing weight gain. If he refuses to consider anything else, you might want to look into getting a different doctor.