RE: What are your thoughts on fat acceptance?
June 4, 2017 at 9:06 pm
(This post was last modified: June 4, 2017 at 9:07 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(June 4, 2017 at 2:06 pm)Shell B Wrote: I gained about 30 pounds on Citalopram. I came off it and lost the weight only to have to go back on and gain it again. I'll take the weight over the alternative. I'm by no means fat, though, so I'm lucky. I'm as overweight as I've ever been, so I'm not exactly thrilled, either.
I'm very familiar with Citalopram.
My doctor says I can start taking it again whenever I want, and wean myself off it whenever i want. It's an optional thing.
I only take it when I'm starting to become particularly depressed or I'm starting to have particularly bad anxiety (or both).
Because whilst it does wonders for my mood... some of the side effects are so nasty that it's certainly not worth it unless my mood is especially bad.
I haven't had the weight gain side effect... but after the first few weeks kick in it makes me hyper (yes even by my standards) and I struggle to sleep at night at all.... and it certainly causes a lot of dysfunction for me in another area too.
I was initially prescribed it for O.C.D. symptoms and that's the symptoms it treats best of all for me. It stops my obsessive repeittive intrustive thoughts going out of control. Literally the only reason I haven't been diagnosed with O.C.D. is because my psychiatrist said that he prefers to focus on treatment than diagnosis. He tells me he can never be certain what diagnosis someone has but he can be certain of particular symptoms whatever the causes and he can treat those symptoms. And he doesn't like to label people or put them into boxes, etc, etc.
Personally I think that understanding the causes and the diagnosis of someone helps give them the proper treatment.
I'm not currently taking it but when I do take medication it's the only medication I take nowadays.
So yeah, anyways, sorry for the digression. I'm sorry you haven't had much luck with Citalopram. It's hit and miss for me. My thoughts have to get really really bad or my depression has to really sink before I take it.
I didn't know that it could also cause weight gain.
It seems to be one of those medications that works well for a lot of different symptoms but also has a lot of different nasty side effects. Like... my psychiatrist said that it can treat both my depression and my anxiety.... but it also causes me at least two other very noticeable side effects.
