Anyone here gained weight on anti depressants?

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I have gained 10lbs on zoloft in the last 3 months! not much, but I don't want it to continue!

I gained about 60 lbs. on Abilify. I'm having a difficult time losing, but I'm sure it can be done. I know that being depressed makes losing weight even harder. Good luck to you.

me, I started gaining weight when I was on meds. I stopped taking them tho.

Yep on Zoloft I did, but I needed them so I started training, works two fold, the exercise helps the depression, without the meds I couldn't exercise.

whoa, they must have loads of calories in them.

Celexa made me gain weight. My highest was 169 lbs (I'm only 5 ft tall). Once I stopped taking it I lost 15 lbs.

I'm on an SSRI which is associated with weight gain, but I have found no change in my composition with maintaining the exact same eating and exercise routine; as a matter of fact I'm not certain how the caloric equation would change. You can't gain what you don't eat and you can't store as fat what you burn.

Without trying to aggravate people too much - it is not the tablets that cause you to gain the weight, it is what you eat whilst on them. Anti-depressants made me not give a damn about what I was doing to myself so I kept eating. There is no fat in tablets, therefore you cannot directly gain fat from them.

I did. I gained 40+ when I was put on prozac years ago, started happening again recently when i went on zoloft. Now, to hell with those meds.

I don't know about putting on weight but...

I will say from experience that being on a anti-depressent slows down the weight loss rate.

I'm trying to ween myself off of a very low dose of one(10mg) and replacing it with cardio to relieve stress and anxiety.

It's working so far

I gained 50 pounds on Abilify, Effexor, and Lexapro. Has anyone here been able to lose weight that they gained from meds?

I've been on quite a few antipsychotics like abilify. When I was on abilify I gained 60 lbs and when I was on saphris I gained 40 lbs. I no longer take an antipsychotic (TG I'm stable). The weight is as hard to lose as anybody else that is trying to lose weight. In other words, it doesn't come right off after taking them. :sad:

I've been on them for Anxiety (same meds for both though) and have been gaining. I gain weight very, very easily as it is and these don't help at all. My doctor and I have been discussing this issue the last few times I've seen him.

I, however, can't blame the meds as it all comes down to what I eat and my exercise habits. I must and do take full responsibility and am making every effort to reverse this. I will say though that my energy levels have fallen off, I feel lethargic and hungry all the time.

I gained 30lbs on Tramadol. I am bipolar with insmonia and anxiety. My biggest challenge is craving sweets after I take all of my medicine at night. Anyone can feel free to add me! I am on every day.

i was on Prozac for 4 years and cymbalta for 1 and a half. Gained 60lbs on those meds. However, I was also in college and not exercising, and not eating right. But even at the end of my time with Cymbalta, when i was trying to eat right and start exercising, I found I was way too fatigued to exercise. As in, I was falling asleep on the treadmill. I couldn't even get to a point where my heart rate was raised; I was dozing off just walking around. I went off the meds and immediately dropped about 15lbs. The rest of it has come off with exercise and eating right over the course of a little over a year and a half.

Short answer: Yes I did, but there were other contributing factors. What the meds really did was make it very very difficult for me to LOSE weight. I don't think I would have gained as much had I maintained better habits while in college.

That said, I may have been on a bad dosage. Dr switched me to Cymbalta because of the fatigue, but cymbalta actually made it worse. Maybe i needed a different dose. I was tired of feeling like I was in a fog, though, and decided to try battling my anxiety and depression with exercise. So far so good, as long as I make sure to do it, even if I don't feel like it. I understand this WILL NOT work for everyone, but for the rest of the people in my family who also battle depression and anxiety (it definitely runs in my family, back several generations in fact), exercise has been key in keeping it under wraps, with and without meds.

If you absolutely must be on meds (which is FINE. please do not go off medications against a doctor's advice. When I first went on antidepressants, I NEEDED to be on them), make sure you're honest and persistent with your doctor if you are continuing to gain weight despite consistently good habits, or if fatigue is making it impossible to exercise. Mine was so bad I was falling asleep driving to work even after 14-16 hours of sleep. I was basically a zombie. College, I only got by on adrenaline and caffeine pills. As soon as I graduated, I basically crash landed.

So good to know I am not alone.