Posted by Tori on November 5, 2000, at 10:15:11
In reply to Re: Has ANYONE sucessfully lost weight on Effexor XR??, posted by elizabeth777 on November 4, 2000, at 13:19:10
Hi,
this is just from my own personal experience.
My metabolism was royally screwed when I was on Paxil in 1994; I gained 80 pounds even though I was exercising and doing WW.
I managed to lose 50 pounds in 1997 when I wasn't on any meds and maintained that loss for almost two years; then I went on depro provera and became depressed again in 1998 (holiday season, incredibly hard without my mom).....and went from around 180 to 220 right now (unbelievably almost two months ago when I did the washout period from celexa 40 mg/wellbutrin 300 mg to Parnate 20 mg (now 40) I gaind FIFTEEN POUNDS in two weeks, and it hasn't come off!
I've now added aerobics in the morning to fight this, but I think the only way I can lose weight is to get off of these damned pills altogether . I'm doing a lot of self-insight/writing and realized that every single time I became depressed when I was 18 (I used to think that it came "out of the blue" but then I recently remembered that I was very sad at the time as I had a boyfriend that lived in Edmonton and I lived in Victoria and really missed him). Every single event in my life that has caused me to go on meds has been situational-related depression. Now they call me bipolar (dx Feb 00 after suicide attempt, was on Serzone which I swear made me psychotic) because of my irritability/anxiety/intense rage and put me on Lamictal 150 mg bid and I am just so frustrated....I just want to have a sex life again with my boyfriend, I don't want to take meds for the rest of my life ... I'm just so frustrated. Treatment-resistant? Maybe not chemically screwed at all -- went through a lot of trauma in my life and I wear my heart on my sleeve...very sensitive and never learned to cope with things. I'm seeing a psychiatrist right now that helps. I'm also getting my thyroid rechecked and really looking into it. Maybe that explains the fatigue/weight gain/etc. etc.
I'm sick of meds, sick of going hypertensive every one to two weeks (170/110) otherwise hypotensive (80/60) on Parnate.
Sorry for the long rant..... I'm just so frustrated and at a loss as to what to do, how to approach this situation. I realize it will take time, but I have future plans ... I'm 26 ... I want to have a family when I'm 30 ... how can I have a family when I'm on benzos and AD's and anti-epileptics? Things that are in Category C or X for pregnancy? It just makes me lose hope on all the hopes and dreams I had for the future. I couldn't be selfish and have children as I would never want them to see their mother go back into the hospital.......
:-( tori
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