ADs and appetite

[thenewtoto]

Has anyone else found that their appetite has gone down after starting anti - depresants? thanks

Yep i am on citalopram nearly completely went, lost alot of weight, but things settled down and everything gets back to normal after a while.

yes for a month, lost comletely, but then came back. Be careful though i gained a stone once things settled down, as pills gave me a "don't care about anything" attitude. Hope they work for you

depends which ones you are on, some suppress the appetite and some stimulate it. Mirtazapine stimulates the appetite so is useful to those who have lost a lot of weight through their depression and find eating difficult. Not such a good one if you are over-weight though.

I believe sertraline is one of the ones that suppresses the appetite, but never been on it myself.

yes same here feel like a right bloater at the mo.

Sertraline killed my appetite for the first two months, but then it came back with a vengeance (I've just eaten 3 hot cross buns in a row)