Anxiety Medication = Weight Gain? NEED HELP

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  • FlaxMilk
    FlaxMilk Posts: 3,452 Member
    OP, the other question is, do you need to lose weight? It may be hard to lose if you are very petite already. If you are at a healthy weight, eating at maintenance and eating your macros and micros pretty balanced may help you with mood and anxiety too. I hope you have access to a therapist to help you with everything you are going through.
    I'm not that concerned over losing weight, it's mainly toning and shaping with my body. I'm following a regime of things to help me get to me goal; and it is in a healthy, and over a period of time. I also want to here it from people's perspective, because I know with my past, my definition of normal, may be altered and different than what it actually is.

    That's good news because you can eat more to shape your body and probably need to in order to get the results you really want. Maybe try the fitness board for some help on the specifics of that?
  • Desdemonad
    Desdemonad Posts: 30 Member
    Hi, i have been on Paxil since 1996 and take clonazepam and Seroquel too. Recently my shrink tried to add in Abilify to boost my antidepressant and it resulted in terrible weight gain (25lbs). I was wondering how many others take medication that cause you to pack on the lbs and what you do to combat it. I'm hungry all the time, crave sweets, and the meds also slow the metabolism. makes it almost impossible to lose weight, I'm eating 1400 calories a day but no loss, I can't really go lower than that and get my nutrients. I'd exercise and work out more but I have chronic fatigue so its very difficult, I do walk about 1 mile/day and am slowly trying to increase that and do gentle resistance exercises too. Any suggestions. i feel desperate enough to tart taking pep pills or something.
  • FlaxMilk
    FlaxMilk Posts: 3,452 Member
    Hi Desdemona, sorry you are going through that. Please go talk to your doctor again. Let your doc know how you feel about the weight gain and how important it is.
  • Desdemonad
    Desdemonad Posts: 30 Member
    yes, a new med might just have to be tried, something that doesn't cause weight gain, maybe Topamax, which I hear can actually make some people lose weigh, or Lamotragine, which is weigh neutral. Seroquel is a bugger.:frown:
  • Phrick
    Phrick Posts: 2,765 Member
    yes, a new med might just have to be tried, something that doesn't cause weight gain, maybe Topamax, which I hear can actually make some people lose weigh, or Lamotragine, which is weigh neutral. Seroquel is a bugger.:frown:

    Just be careful with this one - it's not nicknamed "Dopamax" for nothing! I got so frickin stupid on that one, my god.
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