Anti-anxiety medication side effects

I was unofficially diagnosed with tourettes a couple weeks ago because i shake my head, sometimes pretty violently, (symptoms must occur for a year to be official apparently) and the doctor gave me the option of taking anti-anxiety medication. I'm 16 right now and the reason I turned down the offer was because I was afraid of the side effects and still am. My biggest concern is weight gain. Im very active and workout regularly and am involved in baseball and basketball. If a particular side effect of mine is weight gain would it be controllable to at least the point I can stay fit if I just work harder while still being on the medication or is it just inevidable? Or does it just depend on the person? Right now taking it is outweighing not because who knows, maybe my tics will subside enough so i dont have the nagging pain in my neck and head everywhere i go.

Hi Koolaid. There is a drug called Wellbutrin that doesn't cause you to gain weight.

When you say anti-anxiety medication, are you talking about benzodiazepines or anti-depressant/anti-anxiety drugs? I'm guessing benzos, but either way, if you're living an active life right now, just keep up that active lifestyle and you'll have no problem with weight gain. As long as you eat right and exercise, that's one side effect you don't have to worry about.


Peace

These days different anti anxiety techniques are used, which are associated with medicines and drugs. However the natural methods for combating anxiety are suggested here because the regular medicines have some side effects.Another major problem associated with these medicines is the dependency on these pills. It has been seen that dependency on many kinds of anxiety medicines often result in drug abuse. Hence the patient stops sleeping or behaving normally without such medications. So it is suggested that you should deal with anxiety and stress with relation to logic and instead of emotions, as this process won't let the situation affect your personal life.