Posted by lissy on January 12, 2001, at 12:50:54
In reply to Re: What Is It With SSRI's And WEIGHT GAIN???, posted by bissie66 on January 12, 2001, at 11:40:57
> > Lissy, I hear you loud and Clear! I'm sorry and I emphathize completely.
> > The only thing that has helped me to lose any weight at all, has been Topamax! My doctor gave it to me to take with Paxil because it curbs the appetite. I have acutally lost 7lbs in the past 2 months. I went through one entire year of doing major aerobics for 1.5 hours a night, 5 nights a week, and dieting. After the year was up, my weight had not budged! This is when I was on Prozac...I have drank and still drink 8-10 glasses of water a day-THAT MADE NO DIFFERENCE. I have starved myself-THAT MADE NO DIFFERENCE..
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> > IT'S TOTAL CRAP-WE TRY TO REACH OUT TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSION AND WE TAKE THESE MEDICATIONS TO HELP OURSELVES AND THEN WE END UP WITH ANOTHER ISSUE...
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> I'm on SSRIs and I'm thinner now than I've been in years -- my pdoc thinks I'm underweight. I wonder what percentage of people really do gain weight on SSRIs? Does anyone know?Bissie, you are one of very few people i have heard who have lost just looking at this website alone and the archives let alone all the other places I have researched or people I have talked to. And just from a very small percentage of people who lose the drug companies think they have the right to tout that it causes weight loss and not present or deeply bury the facts in small tiny print about what they call "change it weight or change in appetite". Another thought that pops up in my mind which may also sound paranoid is that you have to wonder if the drug companies that produce the anti depressants the ones who produce the diet drugs are profiting from each other I.e: Someone gains weight on a.ds goes on the diet pills next. How convenient would that be. I think I will go check and see which of the drug companies are producing both. They would be making quite a nifty profit would'nt they?
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