If you are new to taking the antipsychotic Seroquel, meaning you have been on the drug less than two years, most likely you still have the energy to burn off the crazy calories you may have noticed your body is craving. This is just the beginning ... Seroquel loves Sugar.
As the drug takes over your body, brain, mind, behavior, you will find yourself sedentary and craving sugar. Any form of sugar from chocolate, candy, ice cream, and soda. My two addictions were a) Mountain Dew - and b) Skittles - and c) just about anything else created by sugar.
The craving for sugar comes on over time. At first you think well, "must be my sweet tooth getting the best of me." Then you realize 30 pounds later that you have been eating sugar, sugar, sugar. The long-term risk for becoming diabetic taking Seroquel is quite real. In many cases people taking Seroquel for 5 - 10 years or longer have an almost guaranteed date with diabetes. I bet your doctor didn't tell you that when he wrote the first prescription.
When younger we often don't think about becoming diabetic from a drug that is supposed to help us "become more healthy ....." As we get older and realize the drug is taking over our lives, if we can recognize this association, the threat of becoming diabetic becomes very real.
How could a medical doctor put a patient on a drug that will with long-term use leads to diabetes and all the complications that go with that disease, including death ??
With the use of Seroquel comes weight gain. In my case I may have maxed out at 40 - 50 pounds. Now this does not happen overnight, but it happens regardless of how you protect against it. I have read in forums where people have gained 100 pounds. So the range is all over the map. No question you will gain 20 pounds minimum taking the drug Seroquel.
The craving for sugar is a separate addiction all together. Now you realize you are addicted to a drug that has you addicted to sugar. And with every can of Mountain Dew, Coke, Pepsi, every snack, candy bar, you are adding on the pounds and spiking your sugar levels ..... and in time your brain says, "thank you." Your brain needs the sugar "kick" to get itself started or you feel like an ultra-zombie. Mountain Dew for me delivered the sugar needed and the caffeine that together gave me that jolt into alertness, a beacon out of the fog. But then you find yourself drinking pints, then quarts, then gallons of sugar sodas a day. Of course all this consumption is all pure poison for your body sending it literally over the edge into "sugar shock."
One last fun fact and this post will be written. Seroquel makes your gut bloat. Not just a small bloat but a beer belly bloat. Add the sugar to your list of needs and cravings and the bloat becomes double - add soda to the mix as noted above and the bloat becomes triple. Go try and run a mile after gaining 40 pounds and having a bloated gut because you are taking a drug to help you "function better in the everyday world."
Seroquel Loves Sugar, and so will you beyond your wildest dreams.
As the drug takes over your body, brain, mind, behavior, you will find yourself sedentary and craving sugar. Any form of sugar from chocolate, candy, ice cream, and soda. My two addictions were a) Mountain Dew - and b) Skittles - and c) just about anything else created by sugar.
When younger we often don't think about becoming diabetic from a drug that is supposed to help us "become more healthy ....." As we get older and realize the drug is taking over our lives, if we can recognize this association, the threat of becoming diabetic becomes very real.
How could a medical doctor put a patient on a drug that will with long-term use leads to diabetes and all the complications that go with that disease, including death ??
With the use of Seroquel comes weight gain. In my case I may have maxed out at 40 - 50 pounds. Now this does not happen overnight, but it happens regardless of how you protect against it. I have read in forums where people have gained 100 pounds. So the range is all over the map. No question you will gain 20 pounds minimum taking the drug Seroquel.
The craving for sugar is a separate addiction all together. Now you realize you are addicted to a drug that has you addicted to sugar. And with every can of Mountain Dew, Coke, Pepsi, every snack, candy bar, you are adding on the pounds and spiking your sugar levels ..... and in time your brain says, "thank you." Your brain needs the sugar "kick" to get itself started or you feel like an ultra-zombie. Mountain Dew for me delivered the sugar needed and the caffeine that together gave me that jolt into alertness, a beacon out of the fog. But then you find yourself drinking pints, then quarts, then gallons of sugar sodas a day. Of course all this consumption is all pure poison for your body sending it literally over the edge into "sugar shock."
One last fun fact and this post will be written. Seroquel makes your gut bloat. Not just a small bloat but a beer belly bloat. Add the sugar to your list of needs and cravings and the bloat becomes double - add soda to the mix as noted above and the bloat becomes triple. Go try and run a mile after gaining 40 pounds and having a bloated gut because you are taking a drug to help you "function better in the everyday world."
Seroquel Loves Sugar, and so will you beyond your wildest dreams.
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