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Originally Posted by hamster-bamster
So my p-doc prescribed Topamax but either forgot to fax the prescription to the pharmacy or what, but I still have not received the Topamax.
I am hoping to lose weight on Topamax. Topamax reduces appetite in many patients.
Well... for two nights in a row, while anxiously waiting for this medication and being hopeful that it would help me while at the same time being concerned that it would give me unacceptable cognitive side effects, I... ate tiny dinners. Geodon is not absorbed without food so I eat some, just enough to make Geodon available to the body. I have been using the computer all evening long, not eating, and in 20 minutes I will go to sleep. I need to eat something so I will have some farmer's cheese and that's it.
And I am not hungry - I will eat the farmer's cheese only because I need some food.
That is the kind of effectiveness that is ideal. You are not taking the medication but only waiting for it and it is already effective.
If waiting for Topamax is so effective, I can wait forever - this way I will not need to worry about cognitive side effects at all.
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So I have a
rational explanation behind what has been happening - one that does not require a belief in a medication. I posted this message on the same day that I started biking, and that is why I have a smaller appetite.
Also, I have been thinking about being a "taster", as Venus called me. I realize that this is SO correct. It is not just that I can tell varieties of apples and pears and mangoes.
- I eat New Zealand and Aussie lamb but not American lamb - a huge difference in taste
- I prefer Greek yogurt because it is strained which makes it thicker
- I like lamb but not pork. I try pork every year thinking that perhaps this time I would like it but no, I never like it.
- The only seafood I eat is calamari.
- This morning I tried an egg white omelette because the cafeteria ran out of regular eggs. The taste was
horrifying. I would never try it again. Taking the yolks out makes THAT big of a difference.
- Pretzels and pickled dills are the only salty foods I eat.
- I can only eat walnuts bought fresh from the farmers' market and stored in a fridge, as walnuts should be stored. Walnuts that are sold at regular stores and kept on shelves taste rancid to me.
- I taste when food is starting to go bad before other people notice it.
- I do not eat diced cooked carrots because they are sugary. I always cut carrots in julienne strips. It is not my taste delusion - good cookbooks describe how varying the way carrots are cut results in different tastes.
- Dark chocolate is splendid, but low cocoa content chocolate is despicable. Milk chocolate and chocolate with fillings are both bad.
- I love baklava from one specific Afgani restaurant, as well as one I make myself (have not made it in ages but know how to, using a food processor). Other places do not know how to make baklava.
And the list goes on and on. It is just my world in which I have always lived. Food has never been "generic" to me. And I know that some of my tastes are extreme - for instance, I can eat a package of fresh unsweetened cranberries in a day, which is not something most other people would consider appealing, but I love the feel, the crunch, and the sour taste. Fresh lemons are also not something most people eat. You can tell that I do not have a hard time meeting my body's vitamin C needs!
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I am into art appreciation, but not making art. The only thing I make well with my hands is food. I am not very dexterous and I am forced to pay people to do things for which I lack dexterity and skill, such as pedicures.