Antidepressants That Cause Weight Loss - Articles
antidepressants
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Pam
I went on Zoloft (actually the generic) a couple of months ago, feeling that I needed help to get through the stress of house renovations and moving. I'm very medication sensitive and I found that 1/2 a 25 mg. tablet daily was plenty, in fact when I went to my gynecologist, who prescribed it, for my annual checkup I complained that I can't cry any ...
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Antidepressants and hunger
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Dr. Judith Wurtman
For most people, it is very hard to stop eating when you have eaten enough. You clean your plates as your mothers taught even though the portion of food served for one person today would have fed your entire family when you were younger. You announce that you are full and cannot eat another bite as the dessert menu is presented and then order desse ...
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Antidepressant Medications
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Kate McLaughlin.
SSRIs MAOIsHow do they actually work?I recently heard from a reader who’s lived with depression for most of his life. After hearing much about how treatment works,he sought medical advice; and his doctor did, in fact, diagnose clinical depression and wrote a prescription for an antidepressant.Unfortunately, the doctor did not satisfy the pati ...
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Antidepressant Medications
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Kate McLaughlin.
SSRIs MAOIsHow do they actually work?I recently heard from a reader who’s lived with depression for most of his life. After hearing much about how treatment works, he sought medical advice; and his doctor did, in fact, diagnose clinical depression and wrote a prescription for an antidepressant.Unfortunately, the doctor did not satisfy the pat ...
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Antidepressants Cause Weight Gain
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Marie L.
Boy, this is depressing. No one's sure (we need more industry-funded studies, right? Like the tobacco ones) why, but it may have something to do with the histamines being blocked, causing increased appetite. It also makes you wonder, what OTHER parts of your body's biochemistry are being affected? Also, getting diabetes or some other obesity re ...
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FDA antidepressant warning
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Dr. Richard Keller
It looks as if the FDA will proceed with plans to expand the “black box warning” to include warning that SSRI antidepressant use may increase or cause suicidality in individuals taking them, up to the age of 24. Black box warnings are boldly outlined caution boxes included in drug package inserts and the PDR about life-threatening side ...
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Antidepressants underused in the ...
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Dr. Rubens D.
Antidepressants underused in the elderly: study NEW YORK, 17 april 2009– The results of a postmortem toxicology study indicate that elderly people who commit suicide usually do not have antidepressant medications in their systems at the time of death.Antidepressants were found in less than 1 in 4 victims overall, and in even fewer of those in ...
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