Posted by yxibow on June 15, 2009, at 1:50:02
In reply to Re: Remeron REMEORN REMERON!!! mystery.... » uncouth, posted by Number42 on June 14, 2009, at 16:53:47
I don't think its "valid" to blame anyone who is caught between a possibly very good medication and weight gain.
At my weight I don't feel "sexy" and I think its kind of cruel to blame people. I want to feel that way again. There's a lot of ways I want to feel again in life, starting with FEELING life, but that's a tangent, and this posting is full of tangents.
It's not my fault that Seroquel lowers my metabolism and drives appetite, and alters lipids in ways that it contributes to weight on its own even with trying to diet.
My journeys on the couch are not because I want to (well sometimes it is, hiding from the world) but because sleep and naps help my syndrome. They also probably twist my regular sleep. It is assumed I may have a concurrent sleep disorder, for years.I'm a vegetarian, vegan basically... but that doesn't mean that vegans are all skinny... I never was that way. Haven't been somewhat thin for my size since 18.
Anyhow, side tangent.
When I was able to exercise more (its really too complicated to describe now except I can't picture going into a gym with how distracted I am now, with my disorder changing it seems like it would be a nightmare.... and I used to go when the seroquel was 'working' well 7 days a week keeping my weight below what it is now but wearing myself out) things were better with weight.Now I try hard just not to eat very much, it doesn't always work.
Remeron was pre-gym, and it boosted my weight tremendously.However, don't let that completely stop you, because it varies for people.
I haven't seen good evidence though for the concept that reaching a high dose reduces the amount of weight gain. Certainly not myself.
But as a unique tetracyclic antidepressant unrelated to anything else it is a very good antidepressant with one bad feature of non weight neutral and can help people who have been through others.
Just have to remember the total calorie/food input that is going on, because change is subtle.
When it 'worked' for me, a total accident, I just took it for sleep purposes and suddenly it was better than the Luvox at the time, I had near psychedelic hypnagogic like wake states that were often fascinating.
Today I can't take it -- the NE is too much, it does not work as a sleep agent at all, in fact it works against everything.
But brain chemistry changes along the way, unfortunately, or fortunately I hope for the future.
Anyhow I'm digressing... last tangent....
Remeron is something to definitely consider.
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