4.3.0.0 Con­comi­tant Med­i­ca­tions

Providers should care­ful­ly re­view the pa­tient’s con­comi­tant med­i­ca­tions and, when­ev­er pos­si­ble, min­i­mize or pro­vide al­ter­na­tives for med­i­ca­tions that pro­mote weight gain. Med­i­ca­tions as­so­ci­at­ed with weight gain in­clude an­tipsy­chotics (e.g., cloza­p­ine, olan­za­p­ine, risperi­done, etc.) and an­tide­pres­sants (e.g., tri­cyclic an­tide­pres­sants, se­lec­tive sero­tonin re­up­take in­hibitors, and monoamine ox­i­dase in­hibitors), glu­co­cor­ti­coids, in­jectable pro­gestins, an­ti­con­vul­sants in­clud­ing gabapentin, and pos­si­bly se­dat­ing an­ti­his­tamines and an­ti­cholin­er­gics (40).