I remember when my pdoc decided he needed to take me off all my antidepressants, since I was getting manic. He also decided to take me off a couple of other things, too. He said I was "overmedicated!" Well, whose fault was that? I thought he knew what he was doing.

At any rate, as I went off all these drugs I could literally feel the weight coming off. I belonged to a ladies' group and hadn't been for a few months. By the time I returned to it, I had lost a lot of weight. One of the ladies came up to me and asked, "Have you been sick?" Ha!

People take these meds because they are worse off without them. Anybody who has had bad bouts with certain of these disorders is willing to take the chance that they will gain weight. Not everyone does. But I have fibro and have lots of pain. At least three doctors have tried to put me on Lyrica. But I don't want to risk gaining more weight.

The sad part about drug-induced weight gain is that it happens very rapidly, but getting it off takes a long time.