Do anti-depressants cause weight gain or low test? Red pill me on this.. I am on 50mg sertraline/zoloft and it has helped my creativity and stopped my mood swings (with my old lady) but it has kind of killed something I can't quite place (this is the part of the post you greentext and shit on ty)
Do anti-depressants cause weight gain or low test? Red pill me on this...
Cooper White
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Elijah Green
You gained weight because you ate too much.
SSRIs can decrease libido, and even sometimes make it hard to ejaculate. It's not your testosterone.
Christian Evans
>Coming to Jow Forums for medical advice
This board frequently promotes an all-meat diet, don't expect anyone here to be able to tell you some medical truth.
Joshua Sanchez
not medical just looking for anecdotal experience. these drugs kill a certain fire in you.. (look at jordan petersons dead expression)
Gavin Russell
Most anti-depressants tend to cause weight gain. I think fluoxetine is one of the few that don't.
Jack Hughes
I was on a similar dose when I was a teen. I don't remember any weight gain, and there was maybe a week where I never got horny, but that all evened out as I continued taking the pill.
What I did remember was that I felt a little lethargic, like I didn't want to kill myself but I didn't want to accomplish much either (I was a creative guy too, and zoloft scared the hell out of me because I thought I'd lose that spark).
Believe it or not, I got advice that snapped me out of that shit from a porn star who was basically doing her version of Loveline on the radio. A woman caller was telling the host that she lost a lot of her libido due to some surgery, and the doctors said she'd probably never get it back. She was upset because she was never in the mood for sex now even though she loved her husband.
The host told her to do a "5 minute deal." She should mentally agree to herself to make out and escalate to sex for 5 minutes. Even set a timer if she wanted. If you're not feeling it, at least you tried, but 9 times out of 10 you've built up enough momentum to get past your mental bullshit and realize the action either isn't so bad or actually enjoyable.
I was dating at the time, so I started using that mentality for non-sex tasks. I'm talking about stuff as basic as doing laundry or homework or paying bills. Sometimes I'd quit after five minutes, but the vast majority of the time, I'd push through just fine. Once I actually turned the ignition, things didn't feel so hopeless or boring. Zoloft can take away your manic bursts that some people with depression can have, so you need to create your own methods to continue being successful.
Best of luck.
Nathan Peterson
did you stay on it?
>Zoloft can take away your manic bursts that some people with depression can have
I think this is what happens for me. I get delusions of grandeur, I feel wounded by people when they've done nothing wrong.. I can be pretty abusive etc and go off the rails.. but on 50mg, I'm pretty sane. It just feels unnatural somehow.
Lincoln Wilson
Most antidepressants easily bind to estrogen receptors. Avoid.
Jack Wilson
everything has a cost
Samuel Davis
I take uh I do the taking many.
Yeah. Shared room with crazy man. Then he had sleep outside room. Give me comfort no one watching me masturbate freely to other institutional cuties.
I met my girldriend here there. Gone now.
Too much for her. Life.
I take medication more now. I make gains. Slowly. We rise.
From pain.
James Baker
so unique and interesting man, you're really elusive and intellectual to larp in that way. can't wait for your response in broken ungrammatical english
Robert Mitchell
My heart is broken.
Brayden Barnes
I was on Zoloft for about a year and a half. I was having a really bad and dangerous time in high school and thought of suicide daily. I got diagnosed with depression (brain scans and all) and got zoloft and weekly therapy to combat it.
I am incredibly grateful for the medical and psychological help given to me at that time, but after I made real, actionable steps to making my life better, I weaned myself off zoloft. This was with my doctor's permission. I didn't want to live my whole life taking an anti-depressant, but some people obviously can't do that.
So no, I didn't stay on it, but this stuff is incredibly subjective to the person taking it. Listen to your doctors and be an active participate in your health. Some people just take SSRIs and never address real problems festering in them, and that's a half-life. I'm not cured, but I can at least realize when I'm falling back into depression and take actions to fight it. Ironically, I'm on Jow Forums because I took up weightlifting again to fight off winter blues. It's helping a lot, so just do some kind of exercise to supplement the meds.
Ignore this dumb shit.
Gabriel Morris
keep trying to be unique, man. epic larp.
Joshua Barnes
Immediately going to start weaning myself off of my Zoloft
Fucks sake I've been taking 150mgs for over a year now
Evan Ortiz
It's ok being retarded anonisco. Your mental disabilities are my laughing matter.
Zachary Harris
yes! I knew I'd make you cave... man the fact that your trolling got broken by a few comments by me calling it out is so fucking fragile. go on, damage control and go back to the broken english.
>a-user I was just pretending to be retarded and im loling at u even tho you made me stop by calling it out
Elijah Morris
Two things:
1. Talk to your doctor before weaning yourself off Zoloft.
2. If your medication is bothering you, or you're worried about a hormonal imbalance, ask your doc for an alternate antidepressant.
Gabriel Stewart
anti depressants make you a pussy and have long lasting effect on your dick hardness and have been documented to be slightly less effective then a placebo
Parker Richardson
Thanks user
I'll probably talk to him
I'm not worried about imbalances I'm worried about a potential gains goblin
Luke Lee
Manning my harpoons baby
Lucas Hernandez
It will make you shoot up your school
Stay away from those poison pills
Ethan Foster
Im on 100mg ed.
In the beginning i had a hard time ejaculating and my libido was degreased.
My test lvls were around 650ng/dl (i got them tested).
1 year later and still on 100mg ed and now my libido is just fine and i can cum at normal speed.
Some anti-depressants can cause weight gain but not zoloft, at least only in very very rare cases
Nathan Ward
What about lithium? Does that cause weight gain? I've gained some weight since started taking it
Andrew Martin
SSRI stands for selective serotonin re-uptake INHIBITOR. In other words, one of your key neurotransmitters is getting blocked. The idea is that you only get your serotonin when something serious happens. Mileage varies. I was on a super low dose (25mg once a day, worked my way up from 5) for a while, almost a year. Basically zombified me, and the only thing I felt strongly enough to get through the block was anger. Still, I was less angry overall than before I started taking it, and it gave me an opportunity to put the therapy I was in to use.
I didn't gain any weight while I was on it, but most people do. I don't know if the reduced serotonin has anything to do with it (as in, less serotonin affects your metabolism somehow). It shouldn't affect testosterone beyond reducing your sensations, and testosterone release can be a result of certain emotional stimulus.
I didn't have a super long refractory period coming off of it because I was weened off the same way I was built up, down from 25mg to none across 3 months. If you stop it outright, you're going to have all of the associated side-effects (severe mood swings, fucked up libido, etc.)
If you do everything under the explicit direction of a psychiatrist and not your family doctor pushing pills at you, most people don't seem to have any issues with SSRIs. But again, mileage varies. Don't do shit a doctor doesn't tell you to do, and don't take mental health medication that's prescribed to you buy someone who isn't a mental health expert and involved in the process. Easy peezy.
Carson James
>Ignore this dumb shit.
Here is a link so you know I am not full of shit.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
SSRIs have a multitude of effects other than on serotonin.
Joseph Sanchez
I meant to ask how much weight do you gain on it.