Re: Well, I did it... I hit 170
09/06/06 08:53 AM
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Sand
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I think your doctor's warning about amitryptiline causing weight gain was incomplete. Amitryptiline causes weight gain because it increases appetite, probably by messing with the serontonin that talks to the hunger center (okay, very unscientific explanation there, but you get the idea). There's even something called "the Elavil sweet tooth". I'm not saying that means it's healthy to eat everything that doesn't eat you first, but don't beat yourself up so much - at least some of your over-the-top appetite is a result of the drug.
Unfortunately, the amitryptiline doesn't necessarily explain not going to the gym.  (Although if going to the gym is something you done pretty faithfully in the past and have only stopped since you've been on amitryptiline, I can tell you that once I got to higher doses of Elavil, I pretty much found everything in life to be more trouble than it was worth.)
HTH.
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