The Diet Logs

There is something sad about finding myself waking up in the morning and ready to take my “Happy” Zoloft pill, but also knowing that this is also making my weight “Not-so-Happy.” Found in Psychology Today, here comes a short article about the possible correlation between antidepressants and weight (whether gain or loss):

Weight gain has long been a bane of psychotropic drug treatment. Mood stabilizers such as Lithium and Clozapine are among the worst offenders, causing up to 50 percent of all long-term users to become obese. Patients on older tricyclic antidepressants can expect a steady gain of one to three pounds per month. But the medical community was caught off guard when patients on newer antidepressants complained the pounds were piling on.

Whether the weight gain is entirely due to the medication’s components or also to other factors such as increased appetite again after the patient starts to feel better, this is something I wonder, and that unfortunately doesn’t get very precise answers. At least it does give a list of some of the drugs that are likely to induce weight gain. It’s probably always good to know.

crystal wrote this on August 7th, 2008 and filed it under Diet Logs |