Fighting Remeron Cravings

Megpiekoots

Anyone else of Remeron? I’ve been around 135-142 lbs for about the last 8 or so years and then I was prescribed Remeron back in October. I know weight about 165 and gained most of it from November to January. I never had to deal with such a strong urge to eat before that. Like being ravenous where I feel like I’m going to die if I don’t eat all the bread and cheese in the house.

Anyone else been through this? I want to keep on it because I do feel better mentally and I’d say even physically, but I’d really like to fit my clothing again!

singingflutelady

OMG I'm on it too and the cravings are huge. I started on it in January and have gained some (i was underweight when i started) and the urge to binge is intense. I don't want to go off because I was very depressed and suicidal before taking it and now I'm doing ok but I hate the appetite. I'm also on it to help with my gastroparesis nausea and as a pain killer along side other pain meds and it has helped in those aspects as well. I wasn't even this hungry on high dose prednisone.

Phaewryn

I had a problem like this while on Ambien. I tried everything, eventually I just had to stop the medication, there was no "solution" for me. I even tried locking my own cabinets and fridge at night. There was nothing I could do to stop myself. I ended up not buying things like bread, milk, cheese, crackers, basically I made it so that in order to eat, I HAD to COOK... and then one night in a Ambien cooking binge (it's a lot like sleep-walking), I nearly caught the house on fire. I knew I had to stop taking it, and it took A LOT of work with a psychiatrist to do it, but I did manage to get off it! I'm still struggling with that weight (the Ambien binge weight) and the weight I put on while on antipsychotics (which have weight gain as a known side effect). I hope you have better luck, but my experience has made me regret my decision to take medications I was warned would come with food cravings and weight gain. I had a serious mental illness at the time, and I was SO desperate just to have a "normal" life, and at the time I was like "whatever, just make it stop!" but now, I really wish I'd - I don't know - tried what? I might be dead if I hadn't been on the meds, but I have a LOT, I mean a LOT LOT LOT of regrets because this weight is proving SO hard to lose! Maybe you can find an alternative medication that has less intense food cravings? I ended up finding some alternative options that manage my mental illness and don't have the bad side effects like the old ones did. Ask you doctor if there's anything "new" on the market that might work and not have the food cravings. That's what I kept doing, until finally, one turned up that worked. I tried everything, literally, I think I have taken every drug made for bipolar disorder and insomnia! Turns out I didn't have bipolar (or at least not a typical case of it), and my "depression" was caused by being stuck in "bad flashbacks of depressing things", and I'm now doing great on a medication for PTSD (that has no side-effects other than lowering my blood pressure). GOOD LUCK!