March: 229. November: 199. Ask me anything.

Slim-Fast is sugar. You lose zilch and gain more back.

Not depressed. No time to be.

Strattera. It boosted my metabolism (for a while) AND has curtailed my appetite. (though I can still easily eat a whole Tombstone brand pizza in one day AND 5 servings of Lucky Charms sugar cereal...)

It has screwed me up in other ways too. :(

But at least I can concentrate! :woohoo: :crazy:

I have been depressed at times too; I've had 3 bouts of crying - something I haven't done in well over a decade... but I have no time for depression right now.

My followup appt should be fun.

Do the benefits outweigh the negative side effects, to you? My husband could probably eat an entire pizza by himself in one sitting. He's trying to lose weight now and he's being the baby on earth about it.:eyes:

Hmmm. I now wonder what is exactly IN Stratters if its effects are similar to crack... though I can say Strattera is known to cause different side-effects in different people. Many are similar; and with Strattera I reacted to it in ways opposite than other people normally would (it can induce fatigue, apparently.)

I would recommend conniving a doctor to prescribe strattera. Continued usage will only lead to problems. Potentially severe ones... and to combine it with anti-anxiety agents can be problematic; it's been said it should not be mized with zoloft (yet other reports say it's okay to do so. But, again, it's a person-by-person issue.)

I imagine it's been prohibited as a weight loss drug because it is a sensitive drug; too much dosage really packs a nasty too...

And initial side-effects can be traumatic as well.

There are better ways.

When I went on Wellbutrin I was extremely hyper for awhile, but I levelled off. I really think that I need to be on something for anxiety, because while I'm really good with my kids, everything else sets me off. I get really physically ill when I'm stressed out, and I get extremely upset about minor things. I also have a rather short fuse. When I've gotten really bad in the past, I've walked around in a constant state of feeling numb and disoriented. I've been treated for depression (which I DON'T think I have) but not anxiety.

I lost 20lbs in the hospital last May when I was hospitalized for depression (they also switched me from Effexor to Cymbalta, too). Unfortunately I've gained ten of it back, but the med change definitely affected my appetite.

Although for some odd reason, I seem to be more assertive irl, since I went on it. I'm still on it, because the one major redeeming quality of it that I've experienced is that it gives me a decent amount of energy. I don't want to go off it, just because of that!

and changed my eating patterns pretty significantly.

mid june i was 202, now i'm down to 162.
i'm over the hump though, i need to lose another 12/15 to get back into a safe bmi

Who's the dude in your sig picture?

Kudos for the weight loss. Sorry for the crappy side effects, tho.


Rosie