Posted by Racer on December 20, 2004, at 13:43:12
In reply to Re: Future anti-depressents ?, posted by denise1904 on December 20, 2004, at 10:04:51
> Hi,
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> I don't mean to be rude but if you love it then why are you complaining about putting on weight. Can't you just do some exercise to lose it? Or have you already tried that?
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> DeniseA lot of anti-depressants -- and other psychoactive drugs -- can cause significant weight gain, and diet and exercise do not necessarily affect that for most people. I'm probably extreme, since I have a co-morbid eating disorder, but when I started taking Paxil way back when, I started gaining weight right away -- despite being in an active phase of my ED. I was eating perhaps 600 calories per day, and working out a minimum of 90 minutes per day -- and I still put on twenty pounds in the first two months, before any AD effect was apparent. No amount of starving myself or working out was enough to stop it, and I ended up gaining approximately 65 pounds all told.
I can understand that, if you haven't experienced this, or if you're new to ADs, you wouldn't be aware of how devastating this can be. It is devastating, though, and the only thing worse is being blamed for that weight gain, and told to eat less or exercise more.
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