Little understanding symptoms and conditions

I went on prozac for the first time when I was 22. It was just after I'd finished doing a degree in Japanese at University and it was just too hard for me and I ended up burning out a little. Looking back I don't think I was ever overly depressed - I just needed a little understanding and support, but I didn't really have much emotional support around me at that time in my life, so taking a drug seemed to be the answer.....or was it?
I gained 20 kilos. It took me a whole year to lose it after i stopped taking the prozac. To anyone who says that on prozac you don't gain weight, you lose it - what rubbish!! How do I know? I took prozac again when I was 25 - as a result of a broken relationship and I gained about 15 kilos the second time around. This time, it's taken me 3 years to lose the weight!! So, I know for a fact that prozac causes weight gain. Nobody can tell me that both times were coincidental or as a result of the depression itself, it happened only when I went on prozac - not when I was just depressed. I will never take it again and instead of feeling depressed when things go wrong in my life, I exercise. It's been one of the only things that has truly put me on a 'high' naturally. It's great. I would take it any day over prozac. Sure, prozac made me feel high, but it never felt natural to me. And I was unnaturally overweight on prozac as well. I'm now nearly 30 and can honestly say that the only times in my life when I've been overweight was when I was on prozac.

Am 53 yo and was diagnosed with high cholesterol of 410 when I was 27 yo back in 1967 and have tried every cholesterol lowering drug recommended by my doctors including Zocor. Zocor gave me muscle pains, mental fuzziness, disturbed sleep. So I stopped taking the drug 2 months later. I stopped worrying about cholesterol several years ago, after reading the research done by Swedish doctor Uffe Ravnskov in his book "The Cholesterol Myths" (see www.ravnskov.nu )and also visiting the website of German doctor Matthias Rath ( See www.drrath.com ) These doctors are brilliant and you should read their works. When you look at the research on cholesterol done by these world leading doctors, you realise elevated cholesterol is not a big deal. l had a CT Scan done recently and they cant find any cholesterol deposits in my arteries. I dont take any medication these days. Yet every time I visit my family doctor, I get a earfull on the dangers of high cholesterol, and the hype about statins. As a successful businessman, I have learned to listen to people and act only on good advice. Sadly, the average doctor has little understanding of cholesterol and so I ignore their advice. Hope this helps.