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Anybody else getting a big belly chewing their way through Mirtazapine?? Meds being changed on Monday cause its driving me nuts!!! *Message ends* beep
You should move to Japan – they love Buddha bellies there, it's a good luck thing I think!
I have had a few meds that have caused me to gain. The most recent is the blood sugar meds I am on for the recently diagnosed diabetes. Totally sucks.
Meds and weight gain seems to be an issue for a lot I see…what's even more frustrating is when they(specialists.docs etc)say that it is nothing to do with the medication and it is what you eat…but if you hardly eat anything how does that figure?
Even more annoying when you show a doctor in thier own books on medications that it can cause weight gain and they still say it isn't the tablets…grrrr… 😡
'tjkinkead' wrote on '22:I have had a few meds that have caused me to gain. The most recent is the blood sugar meds I am on for the recently diagnosed diabetes. Totally sucks.
Wow–that's a stupid thing to give patients. I'd say that sucks! I hope you get moved off that soon.
I was on metformin, but it caused me to have diarrhea so badly that I was very dehydrated, and couldn't put enough liquid in to counteract/compensate for what was leaving me.
'yamerias' wrote on '24:Meds and weight gain seems to be an issue for a lot I see…what's even more frustrating is when they(specialists.docs etc)say that it is nothing to do with the medication and it is what you eat…but if you hardly eat anything how does that figure?
Even more annoying when you show a doctor in thier own books on medications that it can cause weight gain and they still say it isn't the tablets…grrrr… 😡
*If* you starve yourself, you *can* gain weight, or at least store up fat, because your body thinks you're starving and it's a self-defense mechanism.
However, the bit about “don't confuse me with the facts” experts has happened to me–mostly past-middle-age, male doctors who trained in the era when doctors were close to gods and you *didn't* contradict them or show you knew what you were talking about. I've had more male doctors fix a gimlet stare on me and ask if my father was a doctor, that I thought I knew so much. *Thought*! It's my body, and I've lived in it more years than the minutes you've spent with me.
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