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[Tobin S.]

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[intaglio]

1. I suspect that you may be taking an SSNRI

something like citalopram or mirtazapine?

If so water retention one of the side effects. Check your above your ankles on the side near the front of the shin bone, press your thumb hard but not painfully into the flesh for 3 to 5 seconds and see how quick the dint takes to recover. More than 1 or 2 seconds and you might have water retention.

Don't panic this is not normally a problem though you may find yourself getting a bit short of breath (I know I do) but tell your doctor and get him to check it out.

[intaglio]

3. Unfortunately, like me, keep taking the tablets

Keep well and keep controlled

Happy Christmas

[TexasBushwhacker]

5. Lithium can affect your thyroid

Many people gain 20 or 30 pounds just from lithium, and yes, anti-psychotics can cause weight gain too. All I can suggest is that many people find cutting out gluten or even cutting out all grains makes them feel better and they often lose weight.

[hunter]

4. I hate my meds. Anorgasmia is just one of the side effects...

But I've learned several times that the alternative, no meds, is worse.

The wretched thing about my dark, depressed, OCD, slightly paranoid and psychotic unmedicated self is that I'm the last one to know anything is wrong.

The first thing that flies out the window is my ability to judge my own mental state.

[Locut0s]

9. Anorgasmia, yup I had that on Paxil...

Never been with a girl so didn't effect my in that sense but I certainly noticed in when I went to masturbate.

I heard a funny joke told by a standup comedian regarding this. He said he'd been on some antidepressant and had this side effect. Then he sarcastically said, "yeah isn't that what women hate, your ready to go any time and can last forever" lol

[Neoma]

6. I was welcome to the weight gain...

It helped me go from 60 pounds underweight to 5 pounds overweight.

[Locut0s]

8. 60 pounds under, wow...

Although I did reach 135 myself at one point during a strange period of depression, I'm 6'2. Otherwise I've been overweight my whole life.

[Neoma]

10. I'm six foot.

Was 106 pounds...I'm like, 170 pounds now. I look like an entirely different person... So much so they my friend didn't believe old pictures of me were really me.

[Locut0s]

11. Very glad to hear your better...

Wow 106 @ 6' you must have been playing with death.

I can relate the pics of me when I was 135 look like a different person than the me of now.

[Neoma]

12. I had double pneumonia at the time.

Though I was probably normally 115 pounds originally, which isn't any better. Turned out I have (constant) B-12 deficiency. If you get a vitamin deficiency, B-12 is NOT a good one to have.

[Locut0s]

7. Yeah I definitely noticed weight gain on Paxil..

And a few other meds. Unfortunately I turn to food to sooth my depression and anxiety. The meds never did a huge amount for me besides preventing me from dropping off a cliff, so I still ate to I'll the emotional emptiness. Now that I'm off my meds and my emotions are more varied I still find myself eating a lot, perhaps more, as my depressed episodes are lower. But I don't think I've gained weight as fast as when I was on them.

Time will tell if I stay off my meds or not. I'm going to ask my psych if he thinks going back on a small dose might be prudent. Recently these lows I've been having have been destroying me by and large bough I agree with him now that they weren't helping me as a whole. But if I need them to stay sane, fuck it I'm taking them, just maybe at a low dose.

[Astraea]

13. Nearly every medication I'm on causes weight gain

I hate it.