Weight gain after taking Citalopram for a year?

[ChristineAndTheQueens]

Hi all,
I have been taking 2mg of Citalopram daily for the last year. I haven't suffered side effects rather than the usual spaced-out feeling when I forget to take a dose!
During the last 4 months or so I've been putting on weight (a dress size or two) without any change to my diet, with my job I'm on my feet 7 hours a day. I was just wondering if my medication could be causing weight gain as a side effect, even though I've been taking it for a year?

20mg that should be!

Hi- I was about to ask this exact question. I have been taking the same dose, 20mg, for just over a year. I have gained 3 stone I think.... some of which can be attributed to genuinely poor eating - I comfort eat when stressed and my husband has been through some significant health issues- but definitely not all of it. I have never weighed this much before. I also was wondering about other people's experiences with weight gain on citalopram.

I also comfort eat but I always have and I've never put on weight before. I'm seeing my doctor on the 20th and will ask about the weight gain. I'll let you know!

Please do. I intend to make a phone appt to start discussing coming off it now... I am also curious to know whether the weight will come off again!

Update: doctor told me that citralopram doesn't cause weight gain (that threw me off a bit?!) and sent me for a blood test for a potentially under active thyroid. So I'm not sure what to think now!

That's interesting. Mine kind of went... well maybe, sometimes. She didn't seem surprised by the idea but was a bit let's wait and see what happens when you come off it. All I have to do now is pluck up the courage to start reducing the dose!