Re: Citalopam + weight gain
Hi, I have gained quite a bit of weight in the last few months despite my diet or exercise levels not changing, and have only just thought about a possible link to being on citalopram. I have been very over weight in the past and woulod hate to get like that again. I'm due for a review on citalopram with the doc so I may ask to stsrt coming off it! I do feel better anxiety wise but gaining too much weight would make me depressed! What do people think please? Pipsie
Re: Citalopam + weight gain
I put on weight on citalopram and clomipramine. The only way of losing it was to reduce my calorie intake and exercise more.
Forget crash dieting. I tried it and within 3 months of stopping had put almost all my weight on again. Your body "panics" at the sudden drop in in energy intake and your metabolism slows down, so in fact you start to put on weight more easily than before you went on the diet. (This isn't permanent though and your metabolism readjusts once you're eating more normally again.)
I've managed to keep my weight down simply by eating a bit less. It was a slowish process and at first I felt hungry a lot of the time but I don't any more.
Re: Citalopam + weight gain
I was put on citalopram when I first became ill. I lost a stone and a half as I was so ill at first.
I am now on sequoel and I think, with the combination of the citalopram have increased my weight. I have put a stone back on and find that I cannot eat as much as used to, to sustain my weight. I seem to be still putting on a 1lb a week.
It is definately the drugs as I also walk my dog twice a day for exercise.
Sheena
Re: Citalopam + weight gain
Hi there
I used to be a size 8 and since going on ssri's I am now an 18 - I can lose a bit from dieting but only a stone at most - noone believes me when i blame meds
Re: Citalopam + weight gain
Does anyone know why we gain weight on these drugs, it's really starting to get me down now, gonna see gp tomorrow, Pipsie
Re: Citalopam + weight gain
Pipsie, this is a question i asked not so long ago myself, as ive put on 2st in the last year and im convinced its meds (i take propranolol, and they supposedly slow down your system) Nobody really answered the question for me though so maybe its down to the docs to tell us why, but getting them to admit to it is the first battle! :)