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Medications That May Cause Weight Gain
Many medicines can cause weight gain as a side effect. Some of the drugs that can cause weight gain include drugs for the following common conditions:
Diabetes: Including insulin, sulfonylureas (e.g. glipizide, glyburide), thiazoledinediones (e.g. pioglitazone, rosiglitazone)
Blood Pressure: Including alpha blockers (e.g., clonidine, prazosin, terazosin); beta blockers (e.g. propranolol); other e.g. methyldopa
Psychiatric drugs such as
Antidepressants: including certain SSRI or related drugs (e.g. mirtazepine, paroxitine), or tricyclics (e.g. amitryptiline, imipramine, nortriptyline), or MAOI drugs (e.g. phenelzine)
Antipsychotics: including clozapine, olanzapine, risperidone
Neuroleptics: including phenothiazines (e.g. chlorpromazine)
Other psychiatric drugs: e.g. lithium
Contraceptives: including progestins (oral contraceptives with low progesterone are less likely to cause weight gain than long acting injectable forms e.g. Depot Medroxy Progesterone Acetate)
Antiepileptics: including valproic acid, gabapentin, carbamazepine
Antihistamines: including cyproheptadine
Others: e.g. Isoniazid
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