Please help. Zoloft weight gain—please tell me it goes away. Give me hope.
Guys. Please, please help me. I literally don’t recognize myself in the mirror anymore!!! Give me hope PLEASE!
Here are the specs. 2023, in a bad spot, pressure from all sides (doctor, parents) to get on medication. I wish to God I had tuffed it out and ignored them all. I will hand it over, it helped me out of a tough spot. Probably saved my life. But it has RUINED my figure. It’s done more detriment to my mental health than what I was struggling with back then. I’m 5’8”, was maybe a 145 pounds soaking wet. Why wasn’t I more grateful for how gorgeous I was then? I want to go back in time and shake myself!
In August of 2023, I was put on a starter dose of 25 mg, then gradually increased to a max dose of 100 mg until this most recent February. I decided that I was in a good enough spot mentally (for the most part) that I wanted off the Zoloft train and I did a very slow taper, ending at the end of February. Vivid nightmares, sweats, full body twitches. You know the drill.
People! I weigh 185 pounds now! Zoloft was the ONLY thing that changed.
It was a gradual change, but one day I realized I was only sizing up. I’ve been trying EVERYTHING! Working out, barely eating, drinking lots of water. I just bought a three month trial of the Instagram ads for Fuel Health which I’m pretty sure is a scam but I’m DESPERATE. I’m crying constantly. I can barely look at myself in the mirror. I’ve donated more cute outfits that I can’t fit in anymore than I can stand to admit. My boyfriend doesn’t know how to help and he’s sad. Self confidence: guttered. I DO NOT want to resort to GLP-1’s. Give me hope that this weight goes away!!!!!!!! I see the magic number of six months, and I know I’m not quite there, but I want to get married next year and I don’t know if I can mentally take looking at pictures of someone I don’t recognize in my mother’s dress for the next eighty years.
PLEASE GIVE ME HOPE!!!!!! Please give me any success stories.