hmmm!

i wonder if my recent unexplained weight gain could be related to my antidepressants. Since going on wellbutrin back in the fall, i've gained several million pounds. it's only gotten worse since i've been taking zoloft and depakote too.

these medicines are supposed to make you lose your appetite and therefore lose weight, but they didn't have that effect on me. my appetite was completely obliterated, but that did NOT really keep me from eating. (i'm kind of screwed up about food, recovering from an eating disorder, blah blah.)

what the antidepressants DID do, however, was destroy any feelings of hunger and satiety that i may have had. so i think that, for me, ALL eating kind of became emotional eating. when you eat when you are not hungry, it's really hard to stop!

i don't know if there's another supplemental reason why i can't seem to lose weight since i've been on these drugs. i wonder if they're primarily screwing with our hunger signals, or with our metabolisms on a deeper level?

anyway, i'm scared of relapsing into depression if i stop the wellbutrin.

glad to know i'm not alone in this.

./su