Will Prestiq cause weight gain?

The prescribing information lists weight loss as a potential side effect. Since it was just approved by the FDA a few months ago, there's not much history on it yet. Postmarketing data may show different potential side effects, but so far it doesn't look like weight gain is a significant issue.

Teri

I have been on Prestiq 50 mg for 9 days.  I have very little appetite,  so expect to lose weight rather than gain.

Due to the fact that Prestiq has two ways of working in the brain SNRI it will help with your anxiety as well as depression and most people have both whether they realize it or not.  People who are depressed and anxious without medication will try to cope by either emotionally feeding their depression or become somewhat anorexic in their acute state.  Once people start feeling the effect of the chemicals in their brain they will feel the medication working and experience side effects like being dizzy or feeling flu like symptoms...and may not have an appitite.  I've been on a form of Prestiq for 6 months and I know if I skip a dose because I start to feel like I'm just discovering I'm pregnant-sick to my stomach, dizzy and a little out of it.  Then I run for my meds!  I feel much more calm and depression isn't an issue.  Anorgasmia comes into play unfortunately with all antidepressants and adding Wellbutrin cost more and had NO effect at all.   I actually lost 10lbs on Effexor XR and kept it off.  Never stop taking any drug that changes or alters the chemicals in your brain.  It's a tapering off that will prevent any serious sudden side effects.  Would you ever abruptly stop taking a drug that effected your heart?  No so think about how stupid it would be to shut off the chemicals to your brain like a faucet...don't be stupid and blame it on the medication like so many of my friends have done.  You'll experience Seritonin syndrome.  Google it.  Here's to feeling in control again and whatever brought on the depression and anxiety...may not go away or change but now you are better 'equipped' to handle it.  ***one important thing too is a lot of times Antidepressants will be stimulating and cause you to have difficulty falling asleep...change it to the nights and ask for a temporary sleep aide.  The side effects definately taper off after a few weeks.    

I have been on a number of anti-depressants and they usually do cause me to gain weight. However, I have been on Prestiq for a couple of months and I have lost weight w/o any change in my eating or exercise patterns so at this point I believe it could be caused my the Prestiq.

I recently changed to prestiq from celexa and so far if anything, it has cut my appetite. Since I have had a gastic bypass, I will just need to take a multi-vitamin and make sure I am eating a good diet.

I started taking Prestiq for migraines, not depression.  Since I started taking it, I have easily gained a pound a week (and I am not one to gain weight easily).  So now I truly am depressed, and hoping that the Presiq helps with that.  I have no clothes that fit, and I feel bloated and plain horrible.

I have been on prestiq for 1 week and notice a slight decrease in appetite due to the fact that I have difficulty swallowing at times.  I do wake up at night a few times, but I am told that will go away.  It is helping the depression and anxiety for sure.  I feel more calm and able to control my emotions. 

I was put on celexa 20 mg. in June. It worked just fine; but I gained 8 pounds in 5 mos. I lost a great deal of weight  5 years ago and have watched my diet closely since then. Believe me, I was not eating more. My doctor just changed me to prestiq last Monday and I have already lost a pound and I feel more alert. The celexa sort of wore off by dinner time and I was ready to crash. I have moderate depression, anxiety and panic attack. I am just glad there are some drugs out there to help because I was so depressed over my husband's terminal condition and being his caregiver for 8 years I was about to give up myself. So far, so good with prestiq.

I have been on presiq for about a mth. I have noticed i have very little appetite, and when I am hungry I get full faster than before.. So far so good. This was one of the reasons my doctor prescribed this medicine for me. I was so afraid of gaining weight that I had put off antidepressants for about a year.

I was on lexapro for 6 months and ended up gaining a whole 17 pounds from it. I model so naturally I eat healthy and work out everyday, so clearly it was the medication that made me gain the weight.  I have done everything in my power to make the weight come off and it has yet to do so.  My doctor was so concerned with my excessive weight gain that he switched my medication to prestiq.  It's been sitting in my closet for 3 months now because I've been so afraid that another medication I take will cause even more of a weight gain. After reading people's answers to this question and suffering horribly from anxiety I have finally decided to try out prestiq.

This is my first week on it and I already lost 5lbs after 7days and I feel great!!!

Lexapro made me gain 15lbs.

I just started taking it too. Everything I have heard so far actually states the opposite. It's more likely to cause lack of appetite as opposed to the lexapro I was on previously (50 lb weight gain over 2 years)

When I first started on Prestiq I did lose weight due to no appetite, etc.  I have been on it now for 1 year and I have gained 10 pounds.  I have maintained my exercise schedule and feel that it is due to the medicine.  I am going in for my one year check up and plan on asking her about this.

My Dr specifically put me on Prestiq because I have been losing weight (her orders!)

and she said this would not hinder that weight loss

My Dr specifically put me on Prestiq because I have been losing weight (her orders!)

and she said this would not hinder that weight loss

I have been taking Celexa for a little over a year.  My doctor is reducing it to begin Prestiq.  Is anyone else taking a combination?  How did this effect the weight gain or loss?

I have tried so many different antidepressants and prestique has been the best ever.  I started taking it about 2 months prior to my historectomy and because of it I lost 17 pounds with in a month of my historectomy and my kids and husband love me because the mood swings are at a very low minimal.  The other thing I like about prestique is it doesn't decrease your sex drive.  I am in my early 30's and at my sexual high.  If anything else it greatly increased it.  So now I feel good, my kids are happy and my husband is VERY happy.  I would suggest to anyone needing something for their nerves and drepression to ask their doctor about it.  I don't even have to take hormone pills because of it.  It's wonderful...best anti-depression med out there!!!!