antidepressants

[noahfor123]

Does anyone know if antidepressants affect the ability to grow muscle at all?

 

[Thaibox]

The type of drug you're referring to is important. There are many different classes of them. Some have been known to effect certain variables that would definately effect training and some don't at all.

 

[RusPA81]

If you are refering to SSRI's, which are the more common ones like prozac, paxil, zoloft etc., it should not be a problem.

 

[2Shy]

Actually, a side effect of paxil can be weight gain. I wonder if you ate right and lifted if that weight gain would be muscle instead of fat. Anyone know?

With me, alas, it was fat. But I wasn't lifting then.

 

[noahfor123]

I was referring to celexa which is an ssri. One of its side effects is weight gain as well, but I wonder if it causes one to gain weight or just increases one's appetite.

 

[RusPA81]

I was referring to celexa which is an ssri. One of its side effects is weight gain as well, but I wonder if it causes one to gain weight or just increases one's appetite.

I took celexa for a while, I didnt notice either side effect.

 

[2Shy]

No, celexa doesn't have weight gain problems. My doctor switched me from paxil to that for that very reason (paxil = weight gain; celexa = no gain). Celexa does have the sexual dysfunction side effect that is common with a lot of SSRIs.

 

[Basophillic]

The weight gain from paxil is from either metabolic slow-down via unknown mechanism or through histamine. In either case, it ain't gonna grow muscle.

 

[RusPA81]

But the point is that it won't stop muscle growth either.

 

[deltreefitness]

In my experience and many others anti-depressants (mainly SSRI's and MAOI's) tend to make packing on fat really easy. They are resistant to proper diet and exercise. It took me 2 months after stopping AD's to start loosing the spare tire paxil gave me.