Has anyone on Klonopin had marked weight gain while taking it?

18 Apr 2012

Hello Willow215. I understand your predicament. The statistics are that close to 1% of people using Klonopin either lost or gained weight. I'm afraid that you fall into that 1% number. Best I might suggest is that whatever your dose of Klonopin is, and that if you are taking it in a single dose, the dose be split. Regards, pledge

28 May 2012

i have been on klonopin sometime back, like i said in other comments weight gain can go either way depending on what you're taking, some meds i take causes weight loss but others i take causes weight gain, my doctor just watches me closely. sorry I couldn't help. i am on pristiq now still waiting for it to kick in, at this point any antidepression meds i've taken doesn't work , i think the rsd has gotten so bad and had debilitated me i just can't get out of my depression. i don't know what can make me come out of it. i cry allot and very lonely. maybe i shouln't be writing this but i've learned computors can't talk back. lol
judi

10 Jun 2012

24 Jul 2012

this is the 3rd time ive been on klonopins.they work wonders for me. all 3 times ive not gained weight. right now i take it 3 times a day and it it really long lasting but is slow on kicking in. i swear by this drug for anxiety. though i also have panic attacks and needed something to take n the spot so my doc. also proscribed me valum but i dont know that it works ?? if i were you i would try it again and then if you start to gain weight i would stop and try something else.

26 Oct 2012

I was on alprazolam (xanax) for years and it worked great for my anxiety disorder with no weight gain. I moved to Alaska over a year ago and the doc I've been seeing here won't prescribe it due to the abuse and selling of it on the streets here being so bad. He switched me to klonipin immediately, 3x daily. I have gained over 30 lbs this year and haven't changed my eating habits. So I concluded it must be the klonipin, I could be wrong but am asking to be changed to lorazapam because that's what I feel it is as I have known a (very) few who have also had dramatic increase in weight after starting this medication. If you struggle with depression anyway, the LAST thing you need is a bad self image to deal with on top of it. But that's just me... good luck.

26 Oct 2012

Hello Willow215,
I have been on klonopin for last say long enough to no that I haven't put on a pd from it if anything I have lost weight, I am not saying the klonopin made me lose the weight, but I take 1 mg 3 x daily for panic/agoraphobia, and have never put on weight, I guess everyone is differant, could be the food one is eating, or if u are on other meds, they can be causing it, my sujection would be to look up all the meds u take and see side effects, but don't get to into the side effects cause just because they list it doesn't mean u are nessesarally going to get them that is just something they have to do... but in my case, and I have like I said been on for a while, never put weight on, as a matter of fact I was 203, and just got weighed yesterday and am 175 pds just to give u an idea of how they work on me..as I said everyone is differant... good luck..angel1662

27 Oct 2012

Dear Willow215, Hi, and hope you are feeling better today. I have found
Klonopin to be a good med for my anxiety and depression. Along with
my anti-depressant, Celexa. I've been on Klonopin for many years and
not had weight gain. At all. If it worked for you before, try it again. DD

18 days ago

Have only started taking Klonopin for about a week now and already I've noticed I'm eating a lot more (everything tastes so damn good!). I reckon the only reason I haven't gained any weight is because I've always been on a diet, so whenever I binge I tend to make up for it by eating healthy over the next few days. I also try and exercise twice a week, so I guess that helps. Worryingly though, I've been binging a lot more of recent.

I believe Klonopin can cause weight gain as you have less self-control over how much you eat.