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Thank you all so much for your quick responses. My family kept on telling me it was the paxil, but I had been defending it because I'd been told by 3 doctors that they hadn't heard of weight gain as being a side effect. In any case, I think Gaardan makes a good point: if one of the side effects ...

GAARDEN wrote>>>>I'm not so sure about effexor, because I've never been on it, but heed my warning: if a medicine says "may cause drowsiness," be prepared for weight gain

Oh, that's a very, very good point. Don't think I ever put 'drowsiness' and weight gain together in spite of the obvious ...

hello all,
I 've just started the program less than a week ago. I would like to know if anyone else out there who has been on paxil (i was on 20 milligrams a day) has experienced very rapid and seemingly uncontrollable weight gain. I gained about 50 pounds in about 1 year's time. I asked several ...