Weight loss caused by depression medication

@Krissb123 Hi Krissb123, thank you for opening this discussion. I'm sorry to hear you had such a bad reaction to your medication, but I'm glad to hear that your doctor was quick to listen and change it!

Has anyone had a similar reaction to depression medication? Did it eventually go away or did you switch medicines? Do you have any advice for Krissb123 on how she can feel better about herself?
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Take care,
Courtney

I am not sure why I was included?

Whey protein. I mix it with milk and sometimes crushed ice and its delish and will put the weight on you too

@LynC63‍ Thank you! I will try it! :) 

You're welcome. I hope it works for you :)

I have had the same reaction of weight gain my my medicine, my advice to you would be to experiment with different combinations of medicine to find the one that’s best for you.

@Sonic021‍ thank you. Yeah I’ve been on so many over the years. It just gets frustrating. A lot of times I’ll just ween off because I can’t deal with the side effects anymore. Or I get tired of trying new ones over and over that just don’t work or make me worse. It’s exhausting. But being off gets really bad. So idk. I know a big part of it is that I’m not seeing a therapist because I can’t afford it with no ins and the doc I see straight up told me she’s new and inexperienced with mental health issues. I just keep telling myself to hold out until I can start therapy again and get on the right regimen. But this weight stuff. I actually used to be overweight. I have hypothyroidism.  And the meds made it worse. I struggled with weight loss right up until about 2 years ago. I stopped eating gluten as I realized people with hypothyroidism have a herd time breaking it down. And I lost 70 lbs. I was at a healthy weight for about a year. But for the last six months or so it’s been steadily dropping and now it’s just too much. I look almost sickly :(  Omg I’ve written a book. I’m sorry! 

Maybe try effector. It works really well for me.

Maybe try Effexxor

@LynC63‍ I was on it years ago. It worked pretty good for a few years. But I had to keep uping the dose as over time it would lose effect. Til I maxed out and it stopped working. My doc recently thought we’d try it again. Since it worked before. Well this time, even though it was working for mood. I had some serious side effects. I started bruising all over. That was another one that made me have a hard time eating. And it gave me horrible diarrhea. So my doc pulled me off. Idk feels like the older I get the harder it is to find something that doesn’t get me with the side effects.