SSRIs and weight gain

[Thoughtforms]

I've been on Zoloft for a month and I've gained 10lbs!


Anyone else experienced this?
I have been constantly hungry so eating more on it.
I don't know if I should stop taking it or if dieting will work.

I have two months to lose weight for an event

 

[JustAboutDone]

Hi, I'm going to sound reeeeeally tedious here... but the most important thing is: do you feel any better?
If so, definitely stick with it, but maybe ask your doctor for something else to go alongside it that helps with the weight gain. Wellbutrin is popular as an add on (in America at least) or Toprimate which is used as a mood stability drug/migraine drug/weight loss etc

 

[Final Escape]

I've been on Zoloft for a month and I've gained 10lbs!


Anyone else experienced this?
I have been constantly hungry so eating more on it.
I don't know if I should stop taking it or if dieting will work.

I have two months to lose weight for an event

I took zoloft for about a week and had to quit because of the severe sexual side effects. I also felt strangely numbed out but it wasn't pleasant. I felt nothing :(" It seemed to take away beneficial aspects of being able to feel things, but I don't mean just because of the sexual side effects. I have learned that SSRI's are toxic for the body. If I were you I would try to come off slowly. This weight gain you are experiencing is not good for you. I had this reaction with zyprexa. It made me lose my set point of normal appetite and I was craving sweets like never before. As soon as I stopped the med the weight came off fast. Then I decided to try Prozac and that didn't do this to me but I think I did develop mania and I seemed to become more impulsive on it contrary to what they say it should do. I'm now just scared of psych meds because of watching documentaries on YouTube about them. There can be longterm consequences to your health for taking these meds. Not that most of us are planning to stick around till old age but still. Lol! The people who designed these drugs didn't do it to make people better and they were not intended to cure anything. They push these drugs to make intolerable lives more tolerable and make citizens more compliant. I truly think they get people on these drugs to make us dependent and so you will get brain and body damage over time. There is an agenda to depopulate us, and this is just one way they shorten our lives. It's not about just about profit like most people think. It's about control and destruction of human beings. The global elite have all the wealth they need. Most people would never agree to damaging chemicals being used as medicine if we had no rulers who create the perverse incentives.