why antidepressants. antipsychotics, oral contraceptives, corticosteroids or beta blockers cause weight gain?
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Nobody knows exactly why certain medicines make people gain weight. Patients who gain weight on such drugs often say they feel hungrier, or develop intense cravings for sweets or high-carbohydrate foods.
Drugs for clinical depression and other mental conditions work by altering levels of brain chemicals, including ones that make people feel hungry and full. Even a slight shift in the balance could cause big weight gains. An extra candy bar and soda a day, or one extra ice cream snack, could easily make a patient gain one pound a week one study found.
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B/C THE CHEMICALS THEY MIX IN IT REACT 2 UR BODY!
Because most contain a steroid or steroid like chemical (hence oral contaceptives). I know this because Imyself used to take antidepressants and they were Depakote and Effexor XR. I was also on medication for obsessive compulsive disorder which was biting my fingernails. Those medications were Resperdol and Luvox.Then there's the list for my former ADHD Medications.They were:Adderall,Concerta,Clonody. Ritalin. The common link behind all of these medications is the one base ingredient sulfonide carbonate which is in itself a common storiod for chemical alterations in the brain. This chemical is most common in prescription medication.
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