Posted by Racer on August 27, 2006, at 0:21:47
In reply to MAOI's + Weight Gain, posted by jealibeanz on August 26, 2006, at 22:29:16
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> It's not always because the patient become happier and decides to eat. (Who decides to over-eat continiuously to the point of becoming overweight or obese?) Sometimes, it's just the drug!
>I can't answer the question about MAOIs, but I wanted to tell you something I heard from a T a few years ago:
"These medications don't make you gain weight. They're like birth control pills -- you gain weight because when you take them, you eat more and don't exercise."
Not a very good T, as you can imagine. {shakes head} Kinda like the pdoc who told me that SSRIs only cause sexual side effects for men. Not for women.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Not.
It's amazing how much disinformation is out there about these things. You're right -- there's no excuse for anything to say that SSRIs don't cause weight gain. Ugh. I can't talk about this one anymore. It's An Issue for me, ya know?
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