Posted by kerin on March 9, 2001, at 13:42:23
In reply to Re: big fat weight gain, posted by lxm7110 on March 8, 2001, at 14:13:52
I know exactly what you mean about feeling like people thinking you've become lazy. The weight really does negate, for me, a lot of the mental health benefits I'vee had from SSRIs.
> I can relate. After three years on Prozac I'd gained close to 40 lbs. I'm three sizes bigger than I've ever been and, after six months off the drug I'm still struggling to lose the weight. After trying running 5 to 6 times per week and seeing zero improvement, I'm on Weight Watchers. It's not much different than my usual diet and so far I've only seen a loss of a couple of pounds. I'm considering going on Wellbutrin just to lose the weight but hate to get back into the whole cycle of things. I'm lucky that I've been feeling fine and my depression hasn't returned. Although it took me three months and acupunture treatments to finally feel like my old (good) self, for the withdrawl symptoms to stop, and to get my energy back to normal.
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> Almost the worst parst of the weight gain is feeling like eveyone thinks I just got lazy and fat. It was my first expereince in life (I'm 39) to be heavy and now I know what overweight people go through. It stinks.
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