I am also a huge fan of breakfast foods. I love eating pancakes or cereal for dinner, too.

Good luck with the Zoloft. I had a wonderfully brief fling with Ambien, but then stopped sleeping through it, which meant never getting 7 hours minimum sleep. So, alas, I had to stop taking it!

But I always did binge on cereal, because it was one of the few foods that was always available in our house, so I retain some of the same issues around it now. I have been known to buy Lucky Charms when my husband is out of town and eat large amounts of them for dinner the whole time he’s gone.

I’m glad the Ambien is helping you and I hope the Zoloft will too. If you go the specified period and it’s not, I hope you will be able to get back in to your psychiatrist quickly to get something else. I hate to think of you continuing to suffer if you don’t need to. For me, Wellbutrin has (I think) had some minimal effect in curbing my urges to eat compulsively, and it’s the only antidepressant that has actually helped me feel more energetic and inclined to do things. But it also tends to shorten my already short temper, and I’ve been told it’s bad for OCD, so I don’t think it’s ideal. I’m scared of going off it though; it’s the only antidepressant that I’ve felt has actually helped me.

I did a Prozac/Wellbutrin combination for a while; if you do need to change drugs, maybe you could convince your dr. to try a combination of things. Of course that may not be what you need, but it’s just a thought.

Oh, and since I think this is my first time commenting here–I love your blog. I wandered over here a few weeks ago from somewhere else in the Fatosphere.

baa-aa-aa.
Doctors are intelligent, and if we’re lucky, well-trained and compassionate. They’re not god.
I won’t go on about this since other peoples’ brain chemistry isn’t any of my business, really, and we are all so biochemically different one from another.
Mae, if you’re happy with your physician and with the way he helps you with your medical concerns, that’s all groovy. I’m just saying that we as patients aren’t required to take whatever comes out of their mouths as gospel. And there’s never any harm in getting second opinions.
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I dunno, this is coming from a girl with an active E.D. who lied about it for many years and sought out meds that caused weight loss… I also intentionally left medical conditions untreated because when I’d get REALLY sick I didn’t feel like eating

Just saying… go with what your doctor says and Zoloft rocks pretty well, very few side effects and none that seem to be too too major

OTOH, I may be a somewhat unusual case in that I also had untreated PCOS during most of the time I took the drug (once I got on metformin and BCPs the weight gain stopped, but didn’t reverse itself). So I’m not convinced that my metabolic issues didn’t have something to do with it. But your doctor is mistaken if he thinks there is no weight gain associated with this drug. I’m not the only one who gained lots of weight on it long-term.

He said Wellbutrin lowers the seizure threshold which can be a problem for people who are actively purging and who therefore have imbalances of (?? umm, I forget what he said– electrolytes?) which, the two acting together, can cause seizures. Even though I assued him I wasn’t actively bingeing/purging anymore, he kind of brushed it off like, “Well, for now, but you aren’t being treated for your eating disorder and who knows what might change in the future, I wouldn’t want to be responsible for adverse effects.”

Criss, unfortunately I think you may be right, but I’m hoping that the teeth grinding at night will go away now that I am getting treatment for the depression.

Umm, OMG Apples I am sooo trying that with the white chocolate next time.

If there is anything you don’t like about your doctor, including his refusal to prescribe Wellbutrin for you, I hope you won’t hesitate to find another doctor.

The information I’ve found does not contraindicate Wellbutrin for eating disorders.