Posted by Laurie Beth on January 17, 2006, at 15:18:39
In reply to It's not that easy with a lot of drugs » yxibow, posted by Racer on January 13, 2006, at 12:52:05
I don't doubt that these meds can change metabolism.
But even if they don't, they still bear responsibility for weight gain if they cause the patient to be hungrier, crave unhealthful or high caloric foods, or make the patient sleep more than before. I don't know if my metabolism changed on Zoloft (I gained 40 while on it, probably 25 of them during the 9 months I was on 300 mg.), but I do know that it made me hungry all the time, made me sleep 14 hours a day, and made me lethargic when I wasn't sleeping. It's no answer for a doc to say "well, just eat less and exercise more," if the med itself makes that impossible.
Laurie (a little defensive too?)
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