what meds will help

[penknee25]

i have a binge eating disorder. since i was 20 it started i went on a diet and restricted myself then wold "cheat" on the diet and start all over on monday kinda thig get it....well ihave been doing this for 7 years up and down with my wt its driving me crazy. for the last 3 years i have managed to stay 5 pounds from my goal wt that i like to be at but lately i have been stressed and eating alot of food binging 2 days a week about. i have gained 5 pounds and can't seem to loose them.  i started to run but that seems to make my binging worse cause i get hungrier.  i am currently taking effexor for anxiety which tends to not help with the binging.  i have read about welbutrin XL and wt loss but i don't want more anxiety as i read it may increse this.

can anyone help

[panda531]

I agree re OA.  It has saved my life.

but medications can  A) CAUSE Binge Eating
  
( which is how my BED started)


or help              ....Prozac in a high dose  really put the breaks on binging for me agt one point- I could have talked about the emotional aspects for years. started taking
Prozac and it was the end of the cravings, binging etc.

Unfortunately, it made me have mood swings- so now I am doing it with OA.

[sweettomato]

I was on wellbutrin XL for about a year (for depression) and it did not help with my ED. I agree with Zoelula that a pill won't take care of the problem. I liken my BED to an addiction. I am working through it with my therapist, but I think I need to start attending OA.

[penknee25]

thank you that made sense

[Zoelula]

Hi
Perhaps someone else will share their experience with particular medications, but I wanted to make a different observation. You start your post by saying you have a binge eating disorder. But then you go on to talk all about weight loss. Eating disorders are not about having trouble losing weight, they are about our OBSESSIONS with weight and food; how we feel terrible about ourselves because we are five pounds overweight and the things we do due to this obsession. No diet or exercise program or pill will help with that. In fact it continues to feed the obsession and the disorder. In order to get recovery from an eating disorder we need to heal from our obsession with weight and food. My suggestion would be to talk with your doctor, with a therapist experienced with eating disorders and/or attend meetings of Overeater's Anonymous which has free meetings in most towns. (look in the phonebook under OA or Overeater's Anonymous)

I have fifteen years recovery from my eating disorder and when I finally got into recovery after many many years it was because I stopped caring about the weight so much as I wanted to stop the damage I was doing to my body and my emotional stability. You can do it too!