by Therese Borchard at Beyond Blue
Now this post is close to home for many of us. You only have to look at some meds to start stacking on the weight.
Over 2007/8 I performed an amazing feat, losing about 13 kg (28.6 pounds) just from changing my diet (to low cholesterol). I mention it because there was a nasty side-effect. My moods became more not less volatile and I was very irritable and difficult to live with. It took about 6 months for it to dawn on us that my change in weight threw my meds out. A reduction in my meds helped stitch me back together.
It isn’t obvious, or it wasn’t to us. If you have a large increase or decrease in weight then a check-up could save you some grief.
Here’s an excerpt from Therese’s post:
“I’ll be perfectly honest. It’s a battle. As someone with a history of an eating disorder, I’ve had to work very hard on getting to the place where I eat when I’m hungry. For that reason, I won’t go near drugs like Zyprexa, because the 20 pounds that I gained in one month made me feel ALMOST as bad as my depression. …”
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