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Darn! Zoloft seems like failure for difficult child. Weight loss and maybe other side effects
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 593353" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Dry muscle is actual muscle tissue. Often when thinking muscle gain, you think of what is actual lean body mass but muscles are masters of preserving liquid and when someone for example gains 20 pounds and their body fat pre cent stays same (and they have not grown taller) they have actually gained that 20 pounds of lean body mass and most of it is water. Only about 25 % of that is actual muscle tissue, dry muscle. And to get to that you really have to concentrate on building muscle and you most likely have to eat more than you need and gain some fat along the muscle. For example body builders etc. usually have what is called 'mass building season' when they eat a lot more than they need, train hard, their weight goes quickly up (both muscle and fat) and after they have bulked up and before competitions or beach season they diet harshly to burn that fat and to get muscles to be seen. difficult child is not a bodybuilder but does sport there he needs a lot of quickness and agility, so he certainly can't bulk it up to get muscles. For him building muscle is very slow process and loosing even a pound or two dry muscle (of course not all that lost 10 pounds is dry muscle, most is water, some fat, but he has likely lost that pound or little more) can be a year of work in that department.</p><p></p><p>And yeah, I do know more often SSRIs tend to be weight gainers, but it just figures that difficult child, who could use a little weight gain is one of those who has a reverse side effect.</p><p></p><p>What I got out from difficult child (like pulling a tooth again <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emoticons/sigh.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":sigh:" title="sigh :sigh:" data-shortname=":sigh:" />) it sounds like at least he himself is pleasantly surprised on how much Zoloft did actually help. It certainly didn't make all rosy, but difficult child is under heavy stress right now, so that could not be expected. If it helped with both sleep and anxiety this quickly, it is huge, I think. And even if he thinks side effects are intolerable, it gives me some hope, that maybe some other SSRI could also be helpful with lesser, or more tolerable to him, side effects. I think he at least has a little bit more positive attitude to SSRIs now. (He really, really hated it that he was forced to try.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 593353, member: 14557"] Dry muscle is actual muscle tissue. Often when thinking muscle gain, you think of what is actual lean body mass but muscles are masters of preserving liquid and when someone for example gains 20 pounds and their body fat pre cent stays same (and they have not grown taller) they have actually gained that 20 pounds of lean body mass and most of it is water. Only about 25 % of that is actual muscle tissue, dry muscle. And to get to that you really have to concentrate on building muscle and you most likely have to eat more than you need and gain some fat along the muscle. For example body builders etc. usually have what is called 'mass building season' when they eat a lot more than they need, train hard, their weight goes quickly up (both muscle and fat) and after they have bulked up and before competitions or beach season they diet harshly to burn that fat and to get muscles to be seen. difficult child is not a bodybuilder but does sport there he needs a lot of quickness and agility, so he certainly can't bulk it up to get muscles. For him building muscle is very slow process and loosing even a pound or two dry muscle (of course not all that lost 10 pounds is dry muscle, most is water, some fat, but he has likely lost that pound or little more) can be a year of work in that department. And yeah, I do know more often SSRIs tend to be weight gainers, but it just figures that difficult child, who could use a little weight gain is one of those who has a reverse side effect. What I got out from difficult child (like pulling a tooth again :sigh:) it sounds like at least he himself is pleasantly surprised on how much Zoloft did actually help. It certainly didn't make all rosy, but difficult child is under heavy stress right now, so that could not be expected. If it helped with both sleep and anxiety this quickly, it is huge, I think. And even if he thinks side effects are intolerable, it gives me some hope, that maybe some other SSRI could also be helpful with lesser, or more tolerable to him, side effects. I think he at least has a little bit more positive attitude to SSRIs now. (He really, really hated it that he was forced to try.) [/QUOTE]
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