This doesn’t surprise me. It’s insane what we’re doing to people by sedating them with medications that make it impossible for them to exercise or eat right!!!
I suffered for many years on clozapine. My muscles atrophied I gained 110 lbs. I was utterly depressed. I turned to alcohol
I had no strength. I couldn’t even walk up a hill. When I got off clozapine started being able to run again. Walk, breathe. Lift my arms. I still have a problem with alcohol but it’s not as much of a problem as it was then. I lost 75 lb.
I’m going to quit alcohol and start training. I’ve been running short distances every morning with the intention of elevating the distance. I run every morning by short increments. I think I can do it because abilify is so much more benign than clozapine was.
I’m not depressed but i still need to exercise more. What I get at work working part time isn’t enough.
Well done on exercising!
I, too, was effectively prevented from exercising regularly by the sedation caused by the wrong/too high doses of antipsychotic.
Now I’m able to do a long run once a week.
A word of caution, though, from my own (bitter) experience:
Try not to increase your distance by more than 10% per week. If you do try to increase the distance by more than 10% per week, then you’re more likely to get injured, and end up back at square one.
Well done again, and good luck!
I don’t get the kick I used to from exercise, and that stops me bothering with it. It’s truly a waste on my part.
Edit: I used to walk hours and hours, like for example, I’d walk from 2miles outside of Manchester to the city centre when I lived there or when I’d visit my grandparents place
For what it’s worth, I was the same. The antipsychotic meant that I only ever felt good from exercising for a couple of minutes at the end of a run, rather than feeling good from it for much longer like most normies do.
Getting on the right antipsychotic, and also adding an antidepressant, has given me back my enjoyment of exercise.
Anyway, that’s just my experience, and I appreciate that people are different.
Yeah, I feel as though if I switch to cariprazine - I’d more likely feel the effects of exercise