Posted by sickofmyfatclothes on February 25, 2004, at 11:56:48
In reply to Re: topomax » helenag, posted by headachequeen on February 24, 2004, at 14:54:01
> > Topamax has been an excellent mood stabilizer for me. I have been at 300mg since December and because OF the appetite suppression, I am going to have to ask my doctor to decrease my dose. Not that I mind losing the weight, which I continue to do so at 2-3 pounds a week, but because I think it is getting unhealthy to eat once a day. I have literally no appetite all day till the end of the day. Just what nutrition my body is missing is bothering me. At christmas time, I was in a size 10. I am now in a size 6. Yes, yes, as a woman it is so nice to be thin thin...but this is NOT healthy.
> > Anyone who would go on this drug for weight loss only is taking a foolish chance. I may be one of the few people for whom this side effect took by storm, but I stress, SIDE EFFECT. I have also dealt with dry mouth, cognitive problems, and tingling hands and feet.
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> Isn't it interesting that so many of us find that Topomax leads to one meal a day... and so many of us also find that it leads to an end to cravings of junk food...
> good grief health food fanatics are us...
> but I really think that the statement you made
> > Anyone who would go on this drug for weight loss only is taking a foolish chance. <
> must be repeated again and again...
> I keep hearing of and reading of people who keep taking drugs to try to achieve something from the non-intentional things they are meant to do...
> as it were the accidental things they do...
> and that really frightens me for them...
> yes, I am happy that I managed to lose the weight that other drugs and depression allowed me to gain... but I would not want to be able to take this drug simply to lose weight...
> that to my way of thinking is dangerous... as you term it, a foolish chance and you cannot say it too often or too loudly...
> kat who is now a size ten was once a size four and would like to be a size eight I admit... but will settle for the ten.
>As someone who would be overjoyed at being a size 10, let alone even a 16, I must take exception. When I mean fat clothes, I mean size 26. I DO NOT overeat. I have a metabolism of minus zero. I am a very pretty woman and take care of my appearance, but I CANNOT lose more than a pound or 2 unless I live on an apple and nothing else a day. I walk about a mile aprox. 3 times a week. I am not sedentary.I have 6 dogs and 6 cats. I am busy. I cannot afford, nor would I have gastric bypass surgery. A dear friend died last fall from complications from that surgery. I am slowly building my dosage, as prescribed, with no side effects as yet. Do you still deny that this is a worthwhile try at boosting my metabolism, as the literature has tended to show, given my circumstances? How many meds were discovered for other worthwhile purposes while using for other problems. If I were having adverse side effects, I would stop immediately. NO weight loss is worth that. But I'm not. So is it wrong to try?
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