Rapid Weight Gain from Paxil...?!
Question: in the fall of 2006 i was diagnosed with panic disorder and was put on Paxil. While the Paxil did help, it has made me gain rapid weight in a little over a year.
I am 26 years old, and 6'4 and weighed 196 lbs when i started and now am 246 lbs.
I have cut soda out in the last week and did drop about 6 pounds, but im worried because i only take 10 milliograms of Paxil a day,
Anyone have any suggestions?
Answers: in the fall of 2006 i was diagnosed with panic disorder and was put on Paxil. While the Paxil did help, it has made me gain rapid weight in a little over a year.
I am 26 years old, and 6'4 and weighed 196 lbs when i started and now am 246 lbs.
I have cut soda out in the last week and did drop about 6 pounds, but im worried because i only take 10 milliograms of Paxil a day,
Anyone have any suggestions?
calm down and take a paxil, just kidding. try a low calorie diet for a while, you may have to make a concious effort to watch what you eat from now on if you want to return to your normal weight.
The weight gain caused by Paxil (or any other psychological drug) is due to the drug's messing with your brain chemistry and making your appetite go out of whack (and also when you should be getting that 'full' feeling).
Cutting sodas for a week will not drop 6 pounds. More than likely that's just fluid loss. However, anytime you can cut high fructose corn syrup out of your diet, that's a good thing. But if you replaced it with 'diet' sodas you wont' see ANY weight loss because nutrisweet and other synthetic sweetners still trick the body into over insulin production, then hypoglycemia, and then overeating to compensate.
YOU NEED TO REDUCE your caloric intake and increase your exercise or calories burned. That is the simple mathematics of weight loss and weight gain.
Once you change your diet and get good exercise, you may find that you don't even need the Paxil. There are many things you can do besides meds, and weight is an issue, you need to go back to your psychiatrist and try something different.
A 'safe' weight loss is about a pound a week. Nothing more.