Hi all i'm new to this board but have found everything so interesting... i was put on abilify 3 years ago and have gained 60+ lbs on it.. that's a lot of extra weight... i made a doctors appt tomorrow to see if he will change my script to cymbalta? anyone here ever been on cymbalta or had any luck with it? any replies would be appreciated

Hi Savora,

Good luck on the new prescription... let us know how it works out for you.

If you do a search on Cymbalta in this forum you'll come up with many posts about it like this one http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/show...light=cymbalta

I hope it helps... there were oodles of them when I did the search. Did you get to see your doc?

i have heard and read many good things about cymbalta hopefully the doctor will give it to me and it will work, thats the hard part, my abilify works so well i hate to get off of it but this weight is killing me.....

well the doctor would NOT give me cymbalta, *******, but he gave me something called moban never heard of it but he says doesnt cause weight gain we shall see!!!

Gee I wonder why he wouldn't give you Cymbalta. Did he say why?
Moban huh... I'll have to look that one up but gosh I hope it works well for you.

he would not give me cymbalta because he said it would not work for what i was diagnosed with, whatever he's just a mean guy.... but i have seemed to lose 3 lbs so far this week so i'm really happy about that...

Today is my "reply very late to posts"- day, sorry.But maybe you read it anyway....

I took Cymbalta two years ago, the highest dosage. Despite messing me up big time (but I have bipolar disorder, so ADs are not the best idea for me) I GAINED weight. Fortunately not so much weight because I stopped it early because I felt horrible and my brain got converted in some grey, foggy substance unable to function....I stopped cold turkey two weeks before my final exams.Very good idea!

Anyway, everybody is different. I heard that some people lost weight with Cymbalta, maybe itīs just me.

VERY COOL !!!!!!!!!!!! congratulations

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I was on abilify, or as I call it, the "dangerous demon drug" for a year and went from weighing 108 lbs (size 0), as I had always been active and naturally skinny with a fast metabolism, to weighing 171 (size 12), barely able to climb a flight of stairs in high school to get from one class to another without asthmatic attacks and being afraid of having a heart attack. All of this within only one year, and I have pictures to prove it. I became sedentary because of the weight gain, it made my depression and lack of self esteem worse, to the point that I attempted suicide, and you know what my psychiatrist did? she used eastern medicine bull to misdiagnose me with and medicate me for hypothyroidism instead of admitting that it was her wrongdoing and improper medication that made me that way. I have been on cymbalta since around the same time as I was put on abilify... when I was 14. as you are probably aware, abilify isn't even approved for minors under the age of 18. Their pamphlet doesn't even admit that severe and rapid weight gain is a likely result. It really downplays it. I have no problem with cymbalta, I've never had any bad reactions from it.

Because of the abilify, my metabolism is severely damaged. My older sister would always say I could eat a bucket of lard without gaining a pound, but now I really need to watch what I eat. I'm proud to say though that I am now 129 lbs and can fit into a size 2. never give up hope!

I am diagnosed bipolar, but that's not the reason my psychiatrist put me on abilify... it's because I had told her that I felt unable to control my racing, random, and totally unrelated thoughts, as at the time she had temporarily taken me off my adderall which I take for ADHD. she misinterpreted this as schizophrenia or psychosis and put me on the demon. I'm not a bigot or anything, but she is from the Philippines and I can barely understand her. she is rude, opinionated, and obstinate. next shrink I get is going to be american. anymore, you'll see that with any type of doctor, most are just in it for the money, not the passion to help others. This is the case with her. I found out recently that my best friend also used to go to her, and switched doctors for what reason? her rudeness, misdiagnosis, improper medication, and negligence. although hearing that from my best friend made me even more angry at my doctor, it made me feel less alone. I'll never stop feeling violated though.

I have been on Abilify for 8 years and lost weight the first 5 years i went from weighing a healthy 150 to almost 110 and i am 5'5"...but over the last 3/4 years i have gained over 70 pounds and am ticked. Although it works well for my mental symptoms(ya know ) My younger sister is on Cymbalta and she has gained over 100 pounds on that. Either way I would like to hear more about the Moban is working for you.