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Emotional Eating (Expert Forum)
effexor xr and weight loss
Answered by
Roger Gould, M.D. - Mental Health, Wellness
Questions in the Emotional Eating forum are answered by Dr. Roger Gould. Topics covered include anger and eating, anxiety and eating, binge eating, depression and eating, eating to "fit in", emotional eating, fill the void eating, guilt and eating, loneliness and eating, social eating, and stress and eating.
effexor xr and weight loss
by rellen1953, Jul 16, 2008 01:42AM
I have been prescribed effexor xr for depression. My doctors says that it willl also curb my appetite, because Iam an emotional eater and suffer major depression and have tend to eat more. I have had some mitigating factors in the last few months that have kept me majorly depressed and gained over 30 lbs. Is this true that the effexor will treat my depression as well as decrease my appetite. Has anyone else had this experience?
Doctor's Answer
by Roger Gould, M.D., Jul 17, 2008 05:10PM
, Jul 17, 2008 05:10PMTo: rellen1953
It is true that effexor is a good antidepressant, and since it has some stimulant aspect, may help with your appetite; but sometimes its the opposite, so you can't rely on that mechanism. Emotional eating behavior is very tough to change on your own, and depression makes it more difficult, but if you want to get some help with sorting all this out, you can go to my website or read my book about the subject...I know what you need to do, and if you are ready, its a step by step process....www.shrinkyourself.com
So as Dr Gould mentioned-and as I found out, not everyone has the same effects from medications (be that beneficial or negative). I finally said "enough already" to my Psychiatrist-I wanted off the Effexor-but I felt dreadful when it was tapered down, and a couple of times had to increase slightly dose and then resume a bit later. That is one medication, I will not take again.