Re: 142lbs

[Guest guest]

Wow! This is interesting to hear how many of us are on some kind of

anti-depressant. My doctor just put me on Lexapro, because she thought it

would

help balance me out and feel happy again (normally happy, not out of control

happy). She put me on 10mg 1x a day. I couldn't stand it -- I lasted 5 days

and had to stop. It was keeping me up at night with hot flashes, and then I

was tired during the day, I felt like my heart was beating outside my body, and

I felt borderline nauseous all the time. It said that the side effects

would lesson after a few weeks, but I couldn't stand and quit after 5 days. A

few weeks later I was having a bad week and thought I'd try it again. I only

lasted 1 day. I've been told to try to cut the dose in half, but I'm even

weary of doing that.

I'm curious to see how any of you do with this drug.

Patty

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In a message dated 11/9/2006 8:11:19 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

gldcst@... writes:

Lexapro is a good clean SSRI and I've had good luck with

it......hasn'Lexapro is a good clean SSRI and I've had good luck with

it......hasn'<WBR>t

affected my weight (that's probably the 2000 bagels I ate

Sherry

Sherry,

Did you have any side effects when you first started??? Also, how many

milligrams are you taking?

Patty

[Guest guest]

Fortunately, on wellbutrin I have been very slowly getting rid of weight gained

(a lot) on other med. Maybe your doc could change you to a different med that

still helps but w/o the weight gain... Good luck!

P

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Well theanti anxiety medicine the doc has me on is making me more anxious then

ever I just weighed myself and weigh 142lbs. Oh My God I didnt weigh more them

125 when I was 9 months pregnant. The medicine helps but there must be something

that didnt cause me to gain 60 lbs. Im 5 foot. UGH!!!!!!! No wonder I cant pick

Mic up anymore.

[Guest guest]

Laurie,

I know exactly what you mean. They had me on an antidepressant a few years ago.

I gained 40 pounds in record time. They took me off and switched me. I have

not been able to lose the extra 40+ pounds now. All these years later and I am

having the doc wean me off so that I can get back to a healthy weight. I am

only 5'2 " . What meds are you taking and I can tell you if that was the one that

did it to me. The doc said that there is a very few people that gain an

excessive amount of weight. Well, I was one of them! If it is going to happen,

it is going to happen to me!

Holly

142lbs

Well theanti anxiety medicine the doc has me on is making me more anxious then

ever I just weighed myself and weigh 142lbs. Oh My God I didnt weigh more them

125 when I was 9 months pregnant. The medicine helps but there must be something

that didnt cause me to gain 60 lbs. Im 5 foot. UGH!!!!!!! No wonder I cant pick

Mic up anymore.

[Guest guest]

I am horrified you have no idea what a shock 142lbs is to me.I went to 2

different family members houses to weigh myself because I knew the scales must

be way off. I was 127 and heavy 2 months ago at my drs visit. And I complained

that I was 127 and he says well 127 isnt bad considering you were 80lbs after

your mother died.I called him and sent a message to tell him I weighed 142 he

called back and I go in tomorrow morning hes knows I am horrified.My Aunt was

horrified and so were my cousins and they thought it was funny. I think hes

going to go with lexapro because he says I need the meds.I say stop them he says

no it will come back and I will stop sleeping and worry all the time again..My

doc also has GAD so he knows.I look like a duck if you put feathers on my butt

youd be sure I was a duck. I will ask about wellbutin I have heard of that.I do

some internet searching and see what I can find out too. Thanks Laurie

Re: 142lbs

Fortunately, on wellbutrin I have been very slowly getting rid of weight gained

(a lot) on other med. Maybe your doc could change you to a different med that

still helps but w/o the weight gain... Good luck!

P

-------------- Original message --------------

Well theanti anxiety medicine the doc has me on is making me more anxious then

ever I just weighed myself and weigh 142lbs. Oh My God I didnt weigh more them

125 when I was 9 months pregnant. The medicine helps but there must be something

that didnt cause me to gain 60 lbs. Im 5 foot. UGH!!!!!!! No wonder I cant pick

Mic up anymore.

[Guest guest]

Thought I would chime in on this subject. I have been on Paxil since the end of

2000. I was put on it because I was taking care of my dad who was going

downhill due to Alzheimer's and Tori who wasn't a year old yet. I have been

taking 30 mg. up until a few weeks back when Tori had some massive meltdowns on

a day off from school and I could feel myself starting to lose it. Fortunately,

I haven't had an increase of weight from it. However, I was on the DEPO shot

since her birth and boy has that put on the pounds. I think I have gained 50

lbs. since then. I came off it in Feb. because it was killing my joints.

Liz

142lbs

Well theanti anxiety medicine the doc has me on is making me more anxious then

ever I just weighed myself and weigh 142lbs. Oh My God I didnt weigh more them

125 when I was 9 months pregnant. The medicine helps but there must be something

that didnt cause me to gain 60 lbs. Im 5 foot. UGH!!!!!!! No wonder I cant pick

Mic up anymore.

[Guest guest]

I'm on Wellbutrin myself. I'm on it because I have Adult ADD and I haven't

noticed any sort of weight gain, although I seem to either lose a few pounds

or stay the same weight. I'm almost 5' 7 " and 165 myself. I'd like to be

30 pounds lighter.

Judi

Re: 142lbs

>

>

> Fortunately, on wellbutrin I have been very slowly getting rid of weight

gained (a lot) on other med. Maybe your doc could change you to a different

med that still helps but w/o the weight gain... Good luck!

> P

> -------------- Original message --------------

>

> Well theanti anxiety medicine the doc has me on is making me more anxious

then ever I just weighed myself and weigh 142lbs. Oh My God I didnt weigh

more them 125 when I was 9 months pregnant. The medicine helps but there

must be something that didnt cause me to gain 60 lbs. Im 5 foot. UGH!!!!!!!

No wonder I cant pick Mic up anymore.

>

>

[Guest guest]

Oh gosh Cyndi, I can. LOL

Cleaning it out of Seth's teeth and every crevice of his mouth is worse.

YUK!

Gail :-)

In a message dated 11/9/2006 9:51:36 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

cynthiamiltonburns@... writes:

When I cleaning poop out of the carpet that's

smeared everywhere I just can't think of anything that could be

worse.LOL Cyndi

[Guest guest]

<<so he knows.I look like a duck if you put feathers on my butt youd be sure I

was a duck. >>

Watch out Laurie, it's getting to be that time of year you don't want to be

mistaken for a turkey LOL. Personally I'd love to get BACK to 142. FWIW Lexapro

is a good clean SSRI and I've had good luck with it......hasn't affected my

weight (that's probably the 2000 bagels I ate this summer when dh was gone. Just

lost 20 tho...so hope it continues.

Sherry

[Guest guest]

Holly I am taking remeron and I have looked it is well known for weight gain. I

think hes switching to lexapro but, I will stop taking anything if i cant drop

the weight. I cannot handle being this heavy From: Holly Giglio

To:

Sent: Thursday, November 9, 2006 5:16:37 PM

Subject: Re: 142lbs

Laurie,

I know exactly what you mean. They had me on an antidepressant a few years ago.

I gained 40 pounds in record time. They took me off and switched me. I have not

been able to lose the extra 40+ pounds now. All these years later and I am

having the doc wean me off so that I can get back to a healthy weight. I am only

5'2 " . What meds are you taking and I can tell you if that was the one that did

it to me. The doc said that there is a very few people that gain an excessive

amount of weight. Well, I was one of them! If it is going to happen, it is going

to happen to me!

Holly

142lbs

Well theanti anxiety medicine the doc has me on is making me more anxious then

ever I just weighed myself and weigh 142lbs. Oh My God I didnt weigh more them

125 when I was 9 months pregnant. The medicine helps but there must be something

that didnt cause me to gain 60 lbs. Im 5 foot. UGH!!!!!!! No wonder I cant pick

Mic up anymore.

[Guest guest]

Laurie ~ I know too. I gained 60+ pounds on an antidepressant in about 2 years

and then stayed there for about 2 more years. I have lost 50 of them within the

last year, after I quit taking the meds last November. They claimed it wasn't

the meds though, I disagree. BUT, I will say that I needed the meds in order to

get through the low time in my life I was going through, and if I needed them

again to help me cope I would go on them again.

Hang in there!

Becky

Holly Giglio wrote:

Laurie,

I know exactly what you mean. They had me on an antidepressant a few years ago.

I gained 40 pounds in record time. They took me off and switched me. I have not

been able to lose the extra 40+ pounds now. All these years later and I am

having the doc wean me off so that I can get back to a healthy weight. I am only

5'2 " . What meds are you taking and I can tell you if that was the one that did

it to me. The doc said that there is a very few people that gain an excessive

amount of weight. Well, I was one of them! If it is going to happen, it is going

to happen to me!

Holly

142lbs

Well theanti anxiety medicine the doc has me on is making me more anxious then

ever I just weighed myself and weigh 142lbs. Oh My God I didnt weigh more them

125 when I was 9 months pregnant. The medicine helps but there must be something

that didnt cause me to gain 60 lbs. Im 5 foot. UGH!!!!!!! No wonder I cant pick

Mic up anymore.

[Guest guest]

Happened to Elie as well! But I have never taken any antidepressant - I

have you guys! So there is no excuse for my little person with enough

weight to make 2 of me - I love food - no excuse. But we are all working on

portion control - even switched dishes and use frozen meals for lunch to cut

the AMOUNT that we all eat.

Sara - Choose to make lemonade, not complain about the lemons.

>

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>To: < >

>Subject: Re: 142lbs

>Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 17:16:37 -0500

>

>Laurie,

>I know exactly what you mean. They had me on an antidepressant a few years

>ago. I gained 40 pounds in record time. They took me off and switched me.

> I have not been able to lose the extra 40+ pounds now. All these years

>later and I am having the doc wean me off so that I can get back to a

>healthy weight. I am only 5'2 " . What meds are you taking and I can tell

>you if that was the one that did it to me. The doc said that there is a

>very few people that gain an excessive amount of weight. Well, I was one

>of them! If it is going to happen, it is going to happen to me!

>Holly

>

> 142lbs

>

>

> Well theanti anxiety medicine the doc has me on is making me more

>anxious then ever I just weighed myself and weigh 142lbs. Oh My God I didnt

>weigh more them 125 when I was 9 months pregnant. The medicine helps but

>there must be something that didnt cause me to gain 60 lbs. Im 5 foot.

>UGH!!!!!!! No wonder I cant pick Mic up anymore.

>

>

[Guest guest]

My hiusband has been on Pxil for almost 20 years. It hasn't caused any

weight gain - altho he has gained a lot of weight in the last year or so.

Sara - Choose to make lemonade, not complain about the lemons.

>

>Reply-To:

>To:

>Subject: Re: 142lbs

>Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 15:12:08 -0800 (PST)

>

>Holly I am taking remeron and I have looked it is well known for weight

>gain. I think hes switching to lexapro but, I will stop taking anything if

>i cant drop the weight. I cannot handle being this heavy From: Holly

>Giglio

>To:

>Sent: Thursday, November 9, 2006 5:16:37 PM

>Subject: Re: 142lbs

>

>Laurie,

>I know exactly what you mean. They had me on an antidepressant a few years

>ago. I gained 40 pounds in record time. They took me off and switched me. I

>have not been able to lose the extra 40+ pounds now. All these years later

>and I am having the doc wean me off so that I can get back to a healthy

>weight. I am only 5'2 " . What meds are you taking and I can tell you if that

>was the one that did it to me. The doc said that there is a very few people

>that gain an excessive amount of weight. Well, I was one of them! If it is

>going to happen, it is going to happen to me!

>Holly

>

> 142lbs

>

>Well theanti anxiety medicine the doc has me on is making me more anxious

>then ever I just weighed myself and weigh 142lbs. Oh My God I didnt weigh

>more them 125 when I was 9 months pregnant. The medicine helps but there

>must be something that didnt cause me to gain 60 lbs. Im 5 foot. UGH!!!!!!!

>No wonder I cant pick Mic up anymore.

>

>

[Guest guest]

<<Sherry,

Did you have any side effects when you first started??? Also, how many

milligrams are you taking?

Patty>>

No, but I've been on antidepressants for 20 years and I just switched from

another one to lexapro a couple of years ago. When I first began on them it took

about 2 weeks to get thru the crappy part. Everybody's so different too. They

affect us all so differently. I thought I was gonna die on Paxil (especially

trying to get off it) but others I know do fine on it. We're just like our kids

I guess:-)

Sherry

Oh yeah, I'm on 30 mg. scary huh? If I had as much trouble as you describe on

that small a dose I'd ask to try something else.

[Guest guest]

Depressed? Well what do any of us have to be depressed about?Lets

see most of our kids can't talk, but do scream.Can walk but choose

stop,drop, & flop instead.Can ask for almost anything with but, the

potty picture and they choose to smear it like play do everywhere.Ya

know I just do not understand what we have to be depressed about.And

people also say things like,things could be worse put yourself in

someone else's shoes.When I cleaning poop out of the carpet that's

smeared everywhere I just can't think of anything that could be

worse.LOL Cyndi

> In a message dated 11/9/2006 8:11:19 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

> gldcst@... writes:

>

> Lexapro is a good clean SSRI and I've had good luck with

> it......hasn'Lexapro is a good clean SSRI and I've had good luck

with it......hasn'<WBR>t

> affected my weight (that's probably the 2000 bagels I ate

> Sherry

>

>

>

> Sherry,

> Did you have any side effects when you first started??? Also, how

many

> milligrams are you taking?

> Patty

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Gail, Ok I guess that's worst.Oh ya that's worst and be there done

that. LOL Cyndi

>

>

> Oh gosh Cyndi, I can. LOL

> Cleaning it out of Seth's teeth and every crevice of his mouth is

worse.

> YUK!

> Gail :-)

>

> In a message dated 11/9/2006 9:51:36 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

> cynthiamiltonburns@... writes:

>

> When I cleaning poop out of the carpet that's

> smeared everywhere I just can't think of anything that could be

> worse.LOL Cyndi

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Patty I know you have to wait out at least 3 weeks of feeling yucky before the

meds start to work I have been on several of them.This one Im on is the best but

it took 3 weeks of you know what until I felt better. It has been nice I take my

pill and 20 minutes later I am asleep. I dont sleep I worry without the meds and

it got so I couldnt function from lack of sleep. Some of these drugs make me

feel like I have the creeps all the time this one didnt but I have gained so

much weight.I went from a size 0 to a size 10 in less then a year.Ill go with

whatever my doc reccomends I will be seeing him in a few hours.I do know alot of

parents with disabled kids are taking some kind of meds.I tried for a year yo go

without them until I started breaking out in hives for months on end and this

drug stopped them. I cannot handle this extra weight.I am not sad or depressed

its anxiety thats my dx General Anxiety Disorder.Millions of Americans have this

I have done my homework on this

subject. Hope this helps. If you are having nightmares and feel like youve got

the creeps all the time you are on the wrong drug and my doc its trial and error

with them. Laurie

Re: 142lbs

Wow! This is interesting to hear how many of us are on some kind of

anti-depressant. My doctor just put me on Lexapro, because she thought it would

help balance me out and feel happy again (normally happy, not out of control

happy). She put me on 10mg 1x a day. I couldn't stand it -- I lasted 5 days

and had to stop. It was keeping me up at night with hot flashes, and then I

was tired during the day, I felt like my heart was beating outside my body, and

I felt borderline nauseous all the time. It said that the side effects

would lesson after a few weeks, but I couldn't stand and quit after 5 days. A

few weeks later I was having a bad week and thought I'd try it again. I only

lasted 1 day. I've been told to try to cut the dose in half, but I'm even

weary of doing that.

I'm curious to see how any of you do with this drug.

Patty

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In a message dated 11/9/2006 11:17:07 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

smilinggail@... writes:

Oh gosh Cyndi, I can. LOL

Cleaning it out of Seth's teeth and every crevice of his mouth is worse.

YUK!

Oh yea, been there and done that WAY too many times. Finger nails are fun

too. Although THANK GOD Maddie hasn't been eating it for a couple years.

A stage we are THRILLLED to leave behind....;-)

Donna

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In a message dated 11/9/2006 7:52:44 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

pastmidvale@... writes:

Happened to Elie as well! But I have never taken any antidepressant - I

have you guys! So there is no excuse for my little person with enough

weight to make 2 of me - I love food - no excuse. But we are all working on

portion control - even switched dishes and use frozen meals for lunch to cut

the AMOUNT that we all eat.

I love food too....Hey, cooking is my passion. FOOD is my passion. But

looking and feeling healthy means more. Exercise is CRUCIAL. It

generates oxygen to the brain, so it's a natural high. Even with this crazy

cafe I am now running, I am FIERCE about getting my 4+ mile walk in every day.

I just get up early and do it. I know it sounds silly, and it IS hard to

do (believe me, when it's dark and cold outside, the LAST thing I feel like

doing is dragging myself out of bed), but as I told Duff, I have never ever

regretted a walk. So when the alarm goes off and the bed is toasty, I remind

myself of that fact every time.

I have never taken an andidepressant either....but my sister's been on them

for years. She was in a very bad place a long time ago, and is terrified

of stopping them. However, *I* feel if she would stop the damn cigarettes,

and eat REAL food instead of junk, she wouldn't need the meds. Not saying

meds don't have their place....Boy do they!!!!!!! They literally saved

her life when she started them.

Donna

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In a message dated 11/10/2006 9:01:37 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

duffey48@... writes:

Oh yea, been there and done that WAY too many times. Finger nails are fun

too. Although THANK GOD Maddie hasn't been eating it for a couple years.

A stage we are THRILLLED to leave behind....;-A

Not to burst your bubble but Trisha passed that stage a few years back but

recently must have had withdrawal cause she has fallen off the wagon a couple

of times in the last few months. Hopefully it was just a short backtrack

and she will move forward again back to not wearing it for make-up and hair

gel. :-)

Carol

Trishasmom

She isn't typical, She's Trisha!

[Guest guest]

<< However, *I* feel if she would stop the damn cigarettes,

and eat REAL food instead of junk, she wouldn't need the meds. Not saying

meds don't have their place....Boy do they!!!!!!! They literally saved

her life when she started them. >>

Donna, I quit drinking, smoking and eating sugar and all junk food to try to

manage depression many years ago and it simply didn't work. I fought the doc for

2 years before I agreed to take antidepressants. In some cases it is just

hereditary (we have a really murky genepool LOL) and the guilt one feels from

relatives and friends who hint that they are really not needed is really

painful. Not that you would do that but just so you know. The smoking and junk

food did help but not completely. It can't be easy suffering from depression and

having a sister who bakes madelaines and other delicacies:-). I doubt I could

resist after the reports I've heard on the list.

Sherry (drooling)