Weight Changes and Anxiety Medication: What College Students Should Actually Expect
My roommate texted me a photo of a bathroom scale from a gas station in Manhattan, Kansas, at 1 a.m. during finals week, with one question attached: is this normal? She had started an antidepressant in October for panic attacks, dropped about six pounds by Thanksgiving, and then watched the number climb back past where it started by March. Nobody warned her. Her prescriber had mentioned “possible appetite changes” in…