Anyone experience Weight gain on SSRI?
The silence has cost too many lives and relationships already! It is our goal to bring out the silent suffering so the public can see the pattern repeated over and over again. Families are destroyed every day by these drugs that mask pain, hijack our loved ones and leave us all questioning what the heck happened. How could such a “happy pill” bring such a wrecking ball in such a short time?
Weight gain
Sert kills good gut bacteria
I could be wrong, but I think this stuff (sertraline) kinda kills your good bacterial in your gut. I gained 35 lbs in a year on Zoloft. I got off and still couldn’t lose weight. Like not even a pound even tho I was eating right and working out . I started taking a good probiotic and suddenly I was losing weight. I’m now down 20 lbs. Getting my gut health together helped me a little. Try adding probiotics or even just cottage cheese, yogurt, kimchi etc
Lose the Sert, lose the weight
I gained weight very quickly in this medication. Eventually I did lose it but it was really hard took three times longer to lose than gain. Still half a stone heavier than when I started but it is doable… I don’t think it’ll happen if you are still on the medication. I’m no longer on it. Good luck.
Gained on zo
Gained 50 lbs on Zoloft over 5 years. Lost 20lb after halving my dose within 2 months
yep
Yes, that’s one reason I’m trying to get off of them
Metabolism
Yeah the exhaustion and weight gain combo is so common when tapering multiple meds like that. Prozac and Wellbutrin especially mess with your metabolism and appetite regulation.
"Any tips on this constant feeling of negativity? It's like my positive feelings are even more muted and the negative one's are enhanced. Everyone is annoying and everything is boring. Like a constant feeling of the worst PMS. I have to try really hard to not complain all the time and not be a total *ss. I'm tapering really slow at about 2-3 % per month and don't have that many physical symptoms (thankfully) but this is just dreadful"
