Posted by yxibow on June 1, 2006, at 0:51:26
In reply to If Wellbutrin caused weight gain..., posted by jealibeanz on May 31, 2006, at 19:26:58
> Does that mean I'm likely to gain on all AD's? Wellbutrin is supposed to cause weight lose or neutrality, yet, I barely could eat, worked out tons, and gained 20 lbs. The same happened with Paxil, Buspar, and Effexor.
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> Is it possible that I have some metablic abnormality that occurs when my body has to preocess medication?(although I'm fine with Straterra) Should I try for another AD, or give up and accept my chronic condition? I could try another class, but aren't older meds known to cause weight gain more than SSRI's?It could be a P450 difference in your genomes but I would say that each medication has its own set of ways in which it causes weight gain, none of the mechanisms which have been precisely discovered yet. Paxil is generally modestly weight gaining for a lot of people.
If there is any commonality in any of the medications, I would only say that if all the medications "worked" for you at one time or another, for depression or anxiety, then it is a sign of relief that one, unfortunately gains weight, usually by slight unnoticeable increases in appetite because of an improvement in mood.
But that's only conjecture -- I would not place a blanket statement on all antidepressants or anxiolytics. They each have to be treated for what they are worth, in your body, not necessarily in the general population or what someone else has said.
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