I’m going to chime in on the whole psych meds or meds in general causing other problems for instance this “fatty liver” ( I swear WC you and I are twins lol )

I think as Bird Dancer has said many times we CANT blame our meds for All The weight we gain ( it’s hard to always walk away from chocolate cake and mashed potatoes)

But... psych meds are a really big problem because many meds literally have you feeling starved 24/7, on a few I could eat a big meal and it been carb heavy comfort food but an hour later I’m legit wondering what I can eat next. That was mainly Zyprexa and Seroquel XR so I had to stop those.

Invega was weight neutral for me , I was thrilled I was able to lose the weight rather easy by that change. Then 8 months or so on it I started to drool , like crazy unable to control, start drooling in public. Which cause a condition called Chelitis on my lips and surrounding skin so I had to get off it.

So hopped on to Latuda ... which I didn’t have the constant hunger like I had with Zyprexa and Seroquel. But looking back I was showing a steady gain.. even watched my diet and exercising as much as I was physically able too. My blood work over that time period showed a steady increase in cholesterol and triglycerides ( I have been on atorvastatin for about 5 years , my blood sugar was still within normal limits but on the high end.

Insert here : while in Florida approx 2 years ago now I had to get a liver ultrasound for my Rheumatologist and it was found that I have “ fatty liver”

Recently as you all know I had a repeat ultrasound and it showed Fatty liver” stable from previous ultrasound

After seeing all my labs and realizing the weight differences over time it was clear I have metabolic syndrome.

So I felt I had to go extreme and cut our meds psych and the physical ones , my body needed a break. This was in April of this year.

Would my recent ultrasound been worse had I stayed on psych meds ?? I don’t know for sure.

I was doing well not with a “ diet” but just eating cleaner and avoiding carbs and was losing at very slow rate but hey at least my clothes were getting looser.. Then the August Florida trip was looming and my husband got so sick so fast he was in the hospital. 6 days later he gets out and I remember that day, I had barely eaten anything while he was in the hospital. But brought him home and made a pizza and baked a cake ( he loves them both) well then we are in Florida , it’s extremely hard for us to stay on a sensible diet, we scrap money to make the trips, we are living in a hotel room , it’s impossible to eat healthy on the super cheap, dollar menu is what it is. ( yuck) It’s sad that a burger is 2 bucks but a salad is 6 !

Anyway I come home and Boom can’t breathe and all those steroid shots and weeks on oral steroids they make me incredibly hungry , starving like. So I have been eating my emotions for months now.

As far as healing /reversing damage for a fatty liver , it’s more high protein little to get best results no carbs , very limited sugars, even natural sugar in fruits has to be watched carefully and of course exercise.

I’m a car with 4 flat tires as far as exercise right now because of my junky lungs.

I do plan to start Keto after our trip to Florida, why not now? Well Keto will be impossible to follow while gone and I don’t need to yo-yo.

So I need to really overhaul my lifestyle, I’m not able to exercise like I need to now, lungs, but in general the days of me hitting the gym 6 days a week died over 10 years ago because of Fibro and now PsA added on.

I know I have rambled on forever. But I think I did so to show just how many things can effect our health in different ways and it’s not always as simple as “ lose weight and exercise”

My husband will likely lose twice as much as me in half the time because he does not have metabolic syndrome.

It’s incredibly stressful when we struggle to balance out mental health and physical health when they both cause the other upset.

There I’ll shut up now