{"id":55179,"date":"2018-08-02T08:11:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=55179"},"modified":"2018-08-01T14:12:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T21:12:46","slug":"medications-and-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=55179","title":{"rendered":"Medications and Weight"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m feeling pretty down about my weight right now. I wanted to check in and share my experiences lately.<\/p>\n

I was doing pretty good. I was to the point where I had 9 pounds to lose to get back to pre-Logan weight. I was feeling better about myself, even though it’s taken\u00a0forever<\/em> to even get to that point.<\/p>\n

I’ve shared in the past about my experiences with depression<\/a><\/strong><\/span> and taking antidepressants and the unfortunately side effect: weight gain. Well I’m back to that spot again.<\/p>\n

A few years ago I realized that my issues are more with anxiety than depression. Yes, depression was a big issue for me in my teens and twenties but in my 30’s it’s been anxiety. Like on a scale of 1-10, I’ve been holding steady at like a 7 for anxiety! I definitely had postpartum anxiety.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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After I had Logan I was sleep deprived and anxious and because of my history I was super vigilant about looking for signs of postpartum depression…so much so that I totally missed the fact that I was suffering from PPA. Mostly because it wasn’t even on my radar. People talk so much about PPD but rarely PPA. I didn’t even know it was a thing until I started to feel like I was going insane.<\/p>\n

I was so anxious all the time. The biggest thing for me was anxiety about SIDS. I had no reason to be anxious about it but I became obsessed. To the point where I wasn’t sleeping at all in those early months. It was not a healthy situation. I talked to my therapist and she eventually said it was time to go back on my medication. So when I stopped breastfeeding at 10 months PP, I went back on my Wellbutrin.<\/p>\n

Wellbutrin has been my go-to medication for 20+ years. It’s the one that has worked best for me and THANKFULLY NO WEIGHT GAIN. It’s basically the only one out there that honestly does not cause weight gain.<\/p>\n

Well, good news: no weight gain for me. Bad news: the medication that has always worked in the past suddenly didn’t work — instead, it super aggravated my anxiety<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. I was crushed. I went off the medication per my doctor and he suggested we try Prozac.<\/p>\n

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I was reluctant to try it because I couldn’t really find a lot of information about Prozac and weight gain. My doctor said it was usually “minimal.” But I decided to try because my anxiety was so bad. It was exhausting. I started the Prozac last November and once it started working, it was like a giant weight was lifted. Suddenly my anxiety was gone. I was able to think more clearly and manage the anxiety that came up. It was really eye-opening how bad my anxiety had been.<\/p>\n

Fast forward about 4 or 5 months and my doctor decided it was time to increase the dosage a bit.<\/p>\n

10 pounds. That’s how much I’ve gained since taking the Prozac. It was slow at first and then the dosage increase bumped it up pretty fast. I talked to my doctor and he said that 10 pounds sounds about right for that. He still called that “minimal.” I know 10 pounds is minimal to most but it’s A LOT to me. Especially in a short time.<\/p>\n

I’m unhappy about this, I’m frustrated. Especially considering I’d been doing so well. And then on the flipside, I keep thinking “is losing weight worth the crippling anxiety?” Or is it better to just be like this and have my anxiety under control?<\/p>\n

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I talked to my doctor and he had a few suggestions:<\/p>\n

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  1. reduce the prozac back to the lower dose and see if that helps<\/li>\n
  2. try Cymbalta instead (the side effects seem iffy to me)<\/li>\n
  3. try Buspar (it’s an older medication and apparently doesn’t cause weight gain–but…..who knows)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I’m honestly not sure what the right decision is. It’s clear I need something to help manage the symptoms. But…at what cost?<\/p>\n

    So that’s the update right now. I still haven’t decided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’m feeling pretty down about my weight right now. I wanted to check in and share my experiences lately. I was doing pretty good. I was to the point where I had 9 pounds to lose to get back to pre-Logan weight. I was feeling better about myself, even though it’s taken\u00a0forever to even get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[9835,9834,8977,514,9833,317,295,297],"tags":[359,360,9839,611,9836,9204,9838,9108,9837,2433],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55179"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55262,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55179\/revisions\/55262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}