Weight Gain. Weight gain is a late side effect of antidepressants and one of the most common reasons that patients stop taking them or need to change medications,â says Trivedi. âGetting 30 minutes of exercise on most days of the week is the best remedy..hen you first begin antidepressant treatment, depression medication side effects can be physical symptoms like headache, joint pain, muscle aches, nausea, skin rashes, or diarrhea. These symptoms are usually mild and temporary.
Maintain a healthy iron level in your diet by eating iron rich foods, such as red meat, fish, poultry, beans, spinach, iron-fortified cereals and raisins. Get a good night's sleep. Drink an extra 16 oz. of water or nonalcoholic fluids before the donation. Eat a healthy meal before your donation. Avoid fatty foods, such as hamburgers, fries or ice cream before donating. (Fatty foods can affect the tests we do on your blood. If there is too much fat in your blood, your donation cannot be tested for infectious diseases and the blood will not be used for transfusion.)
You can donate platelets once in a seven day period and up to 24 times a year. You must wait at least 72 hours after donating platelets before donating whole blood. After an automated double red cell collection, you must wait 112 days before donating again. In any eight (8) week period, you can make one blood donation and one platelet donation or six (6) platelet donations.