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Originally Posted by Pookyl
Hope you’re all having an ok day.
I’m officially fat! My endocrinologist dictated a letter to my other doctors in my presence and said “Pookyl as you know, is currently carrying extra weight. She is carrying 52kgs (114.6lbs) of excess weight..”
It’s one thing to know you’re fat, it’s another to KNOW that you’re fat.
How the hell did I end up like this?? Rhetoric question. I know the answer - 5 yrs of psych meds has made me fat.
I’m going to talk to my pdoc about decreasing my Seroquel. She may not agree as I’ve tried a lower dose and become wobbly. I’ve been episode free for just over 4mths.
Is it worth messing around with a working med combo? Maybe this time I’ll tolerate a decrease? Maybe ask to go IP to ensure a med change goes smoothly?
Feel like screaming at the walls in frustration. I’m doing all the right things and the weight just keeps on creeping up. With what little I eat I should be as slender as.
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I understand your frustration. Because of my ED my weight has fluctuated over the years but many psych meds have caused huge weight gain and has effected my liver
Seroquol was the first psych Med I took and I was very underweight so I freaked out big time , all my Doctors were all happy, all it did for me was causing me to be unsafe.
I do have metabolic syndrome from years of psych meds. So every 1 lb I want to lose will be feel like struggling to lose 3. That is what prompted me to dump my meds
The last 6 months ? I honestly cant blame psych meds for all the weight gain as I’ve been stress eating and most is comfort foods, so lots of pasta. The string of prednisone recently certainly doesn’t help anything.
After an exhaustive search of different diets , well I hate the word diet to me it’s just going to be a lifestyle change. A simple diabetic diet with more of a decrease in carbs will be very easy to follow.
I have to become physically active again, I have no choice but to wait for my lungs to work again, and get back on a biologic for this ridiculous pain.
I “ think” someone here took a picture of them selves pre Med to show their Pdoc proof as to how much of a difference psych meds has made , weight wise.
I know there are a couple meds that are for weight loose but I believe they are very activating which is a train wreck for so many people with Bipolar, and I’ve seen many insurance companies refuse to cover!!!! I guess they prefer to pay when someone has a heart attack or needs joint replacements.
Big Pharma makes me furious. They could easily be sitting on an amazing pill to deal with psych Med weight gain but they are making so much money with there meds for all the problems weight gain causes.
I’ll step off my soap box now, sorry I get riled.
Your Doctors need to sit up and do something to find that balance of psych meds that are going to keep you stable but allow for weight loss.
