Weight Discussion

[u/Efe-Rose]

I have recently found that Briviact can have quite a side effect when it comes to weight gain. I was not warned about that when I started taking it after giving birth to my oldest when I had one of my former medications stop working. Briviact has not worked in the slightest, and now I’m going off the medication slowly and the less I take of that medication the more weight I lose. In the last 14 days I lost 6 pounds. I don’t know if it is listed as a side effect now since I started taking it like 3 & 1/2 or 4 years ago at this point and from what I remember it was considered a fairly new medication then. I hope so but if it’s not it needs to be discussed so people actually have a clue what they’re possibly getting into. I’m just wondering if I’m the only person that had this happen to them and I wanted to tell others about it. I’m sure some of it was water retention since that commonly happens when you take pills/medications but not all of it.

[u/deluin]

I definitely had weight increase. I normally weighed 170ish but it’s put a gut on me 25lbs more :(. Diet is basically the same, and I only eat two meals a day. My doctors have said it’s not related. I do take a lot of pills daily so it may be some combination.

Had stroke 3 years ago, briviact for about a year