Posted by Bob on April 29, 2008, at 13:09:09
In reply to SSRI weight gain- You'll LOVE this!, posted by olysi79 on April 29, 2008, at 12:50:06
> Here's a crash course in SSRI weight gain. My twin bro and I both were on Zoloft last year after wbeing on SSRIS for years... we had both gained 70 POUNDS. That's right. We tapered off the Zoloft by the first week in June. It's now ending April.
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> My Twin Brother- SSRI free since June of '07- LOST ALL OF THE WEIGHT.
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> ME- I went back on Zoloft at half the dose in July - then moved to Lexapro at 10 MGS in April of '08- I've lost half of the weight so far.
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> So, there you go.... Pardon me but I see a correlation big pharma!
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> SSRIs are great, but the weight gain talk should be a blutn issue brought out by the pharma companies.Trust me, you're not telling the big pharmas anything they don't already know. This goes for things like increased suicidality. They're not going to shout things like this from the mountain tops. However, if newer effective meds ever come along, these current ones will quickly be abandoned with the medical community distancing themselves from them. Then, I suspect, you will see little reluctance to point out the bad sides.
This phenomenon is evident if you read abstracts and summaries of medical trials for severe treatment resistant depression. The need for the new treatment study is justified by emphasizing how deficient the current treatments and respective outcomes are and how something new is needed.
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