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Question: Answer: In answer to your question, I am not aware of any evidence that Klonopin causes weight gain. Of the medications that you mention, Neurontin is the one most associated with weight gain – about 2-3 % of people on Neurontin experience that. A factor that you might need to consider with regard to weight gain is that you are taking 4 sedating medications: Klonopin, Gabatril, Neurontin, and Oxycontin, and the combined effects of these medications can cause a person to be less physically active and therefore burn up fewer calories than they are aware of. It would be very helpful to do any aerobic exercise that your back will tolerate – some people with chronic injuries are able to do water aerobics, for example. You must be in a great deal of pain to require that much medication – the amount of Oxycontin you are taking is equivalent to the narcotic content in taking 3 Lortab 10’s every 4 hours, which is a lot of medication. If you have split up the Oxycontin into at least twice-a-day dosing, you should not be having withdrawal symptoms. Oxycontin is designed to maintain a controlled level of oxycodone in the blood for 12 hours. In response to your other concerns, I have to ask you to consider whether you might be over-medicated. You stated that you take your medication “then wait until it all goes away.” In my experience, overcoming chronic pain and chronic anxiety is about learning to cope with and tolerate painful physical and emotional feelings, so that over time you need to rely less on sedating drugs to bring the distress down to a level where you can still function. I hope you are getting appropriate psychotherapy and physical rehabilitation to address these issues. Do you have a question relating to a mental health issue? Do you have a question relating to abuse or multiplicity? Do you have a question about medication? Once a month a new question will be answered and posted on this column. A special thanks to Dr. Yank for donating his time to answer the questions. Send your question to ShrinkTime. As time is limited all questions can not be answered but will go into a pool of questions. If your question has been asked previously, a reply will be sent redirecting you to the answer. Return to the main page. Eventually you will be able to search archives. top
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