{"id":286,"date":"2012-03-15T12:07:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T19:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/07\/17\/bipolar-weight-gain\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:59:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:59:18","slug":"bipolar-weight-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-weight-gain\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder Medications and Weight Gain"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I gained weight recently when I started on Lithium because my dose was too high. I basically became an eating machine! I\u2019ve been through this so many times. I\u2019m mad at myself because once the extra \u00a0lithium was out of my system, I kept eating. This happened to me with Seroquel as well.\u00a0 (Seroquel is an anti psychotic- lithium is\u00a0a mood stabilizer.) I know people who have been on lithium and have not gained a pound! It’s the same with Seroquel- I know a guy who has been on it for ages. No weight gain!\u00a0 It’s depressing<\/p>\n

I will just have to have some more chips and salsa to feel better.;)<\/p>\n

I know that I could have stopped the eating. I didn\u2019t. So now I have more weight to lose. Doesn’t it feel like a never ending cycle! I remind myself that it took me many years to really manage this illness- this means there is hope! I can manage this weight problem.<\/p>\n

Darn it! We already have rotten mood swings. It\u2019s just unfair that we have to worry about our weight as well!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m doing something about it!<\/p>\n

I will keep you posted.
\nJulie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I gained weight recently when I started on Lithium because my dose was too high. I basically became an eating machine! I\u2019ve been through this so many times. I\u2019m mad at myself because once the extra lithium was out of my system, I kept eating. This happened to me with Seroquel as well. (Seroquel is an anti psychotic- lithium is a mood stabilizer.) I know people who have been on lithium and have not gained a pound! It’s the same with Seroquel- I know a guy who has been on it for ages. No weight gain! It’s depressing<\/p>\n

I will just have to have some more chips and salsa to feel better.;)<\/p>\n

I know that I could have stopped the eating. I didn\u2019t. So now I have more weight to [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11592,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/11592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}