Drugged UP With My Topamax On
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eggwardsI've talked about the crazy amount of drugs I've been on since my back started acting up back in November, but really, since I started seeing a doctor regularly again, I've seemingly been on a growing amount of pills. It's kind of disturbing.
I have to admit that I wonder about this love between doctors and prescription drugs. Everything seems to have a pill to fix it. Of course now we're hearing the backlash of this as more of these wonder drugs seem to have little quirks that were not expected. they are so widely prescribed, to so many people, that it's not surprising that someone out there would have a negative reaction, but the percentages have been so high for drugs like Celebrex, that it was hard to ignore.
OK, off the soapbox and back to little old me. My doctor, always worried about my weight, as he should be, has been trying a few different things to try to control my appetite. I'll admit that I didn't think I ate that much, but it's probably more of what I eat, in that quantify than how much of it, since I tend to eat poorly as it is. Sure, I tend to stay away from over doing the desserts and candy, but still cheeseburgers and pasta isn't exactly eating light.
So besides the Actos, and the Altace for keeping the blood sugar and the blood pressure right, respectively (low doses, just to make everything cool), I was on Glucophage to control my appetite. Now this is a diabetes treatment for many, and it's a fat blocker. Well, surprisingly, I don't have a problem with cholesterol (despite taking Crestor, for some reason - I think my doctor likes Capt. Jean-Luc Picard), but he though that this would be good, but it didn't seem to take, and last year I was actually gaining weight, rather than losing.
So, we come to TopamaxWhich is actually a drug for migraine prevention. I have never had a migraine, but surprisingly, Topamax has an appetite suppressant affect, so off we go. Well, Topamax, I find out a few months later, also makes you feel like a drugged-out zombie.
This is exactly how I've felt for the last few months. I won't say that it's all this drug's fault, some of it's been down right depression, which I'm starting to be able to self-diagnose now, but talking to my doc recently, he agrees that the drug has an effect on people, and now I have to see if I want to change does, or how I take it, or to discontinue this. In a way, I don't want to, because it's effective, it does actually work, and I find that I'm eating less.
Still, some of the side effects include depression, difficulty with concentration, difficulty with memory, dizziness, drowsiness, fatigue, mood swings, oh, and weight loss. There's only one of those I want.
I'm liking this page about the medicine...Crazymeds.org
Maybe I could work out a little more. Maybe we could look for a different drug.
I have to admit that I wonder about this love between doctors and prescription drugs. Everything seems to have a pill to fix it. Of course now we're hearing the backlash of this as more of these wonder drugs seem to have little quirks that were not expected. they are so widely prescribed, to so many people, that it's not surprising that someone out there would have a negative reaction, but the percentages have been so high for drugs like Celebrex, that it was hard to ignore.
OK, off the soapbox and back to little old me. My doctor, always worried about my weight, as he should be, has been trying a few different things to try to control my appetite. I'll admit that I didn't think I ate that much, but it's probably more of what I eat, in that quantify than how much of it, since I tend to eat poorly as it is. Sure, I tend to stay away from over doing the desserts and candy, but still cheeseburgers and pasta isn't exactly eating light.
So besides the Actos, and the Altace for keeping the blood sugar and the blood pressure right, respectively (low doses, just to make everything cool), I was on Glucophage to control my appetite. Now this is a diabetes treatment for many, and it's a fat blocker. Well, surprisingly, I don't have a problem with cholesterol (despite taking Crestor, for some reason - I think my doctor likes Capt. Jean-Luc Picard), but he though that this would be good, but it didn't seem to take, and last year I was actually gaining weight, rather than losing.
So, we come to TopamaxWhich is actually a drug for migraine prevention. I have never had a migraine, but surprisingly, Topamax has an appetite suppressant affect, so off we go. Well, Topamax, I find out a few months later, also makes you feel like a drugged-out zombie.
This is exactly how I've felt for the last few months. I won't say that it's all this drug's fault, some of it's been down right depression, which I'm starting to be able to self-diagnose now, but talking to my doc recently, he agrees that the drug has an effect on people, and now I have to see if I want to change does, or how I take it, or to discontinue this. In a way, I don't want to, because it's effective, it does actually work, and I find that I'm eating less.
Still, some of the side effects include depression, difficulty with concentration, difficulty with memory, dizziness, drowsiness, fatigue, mood swings, oh, and weight loss. There's only one of those I want.
I'm liking this page about the medicine...Crazymeds.org
Maybe I could work out a little more. Maybe we could look for a different drug.
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Date: 2005-02-04 12:02 pm (UTC)I'll be the first to say that if you're feeling depressed, zoloft, wellbutrin, celebrex, prozac are worth considering... life's too short to feel miserable.
But at the same time I've become a walking medicine cabinet.
Take Actos, Metaformin (Glucophage) and Lantus for the diabetes.
"Your blood pressure isn't high, but it's not low either...: Altace...
The hacking cough you've had for the last six months, could be the Altace, take Diovan. While you're at it you are retaining water, take Floursemide.
Now that you're taking Floursemide (Lasix), your potassium may be low, take Klor-con.
Let's add Precose to the diabetes mix.
You're cholesterol is 150. Not high, not low either, but your good cholesterol is low, take Lipitor.
Muscle craps? Muscular weakness... it's probably the Lipitor. See if you can live with it.
You have sleep APNEA, here's a CPAP.
You have asthma. Asthma? Take Singular.
And take 81 grains of Asprin each night as well.
Are you having any difficult with completing intercourse? I reply, "well , sometimes I..." and before I could finish I have a prescription for Viagra! I was about to say that I'm so fat that sometimes I begin to get out of breath and tired... but now that I have Singular the breathing problem has cleared up. But hell, the Viagra turned me into Superman... the man of steel.
I think I know what the problem is, you have low testosterone. Deprotestosterone injections every two weeks... yeah, it'll raise you libido as well... but before that I was screwing everything in sight... now I don't have time to do anyone... have you tried using Viaga with the testosterone therapy? OMG, talk about steel... but no time to use it.
Weight gain? Testosterone will do that... it's a growth hormone, you know.
Everyone says loose weight... like it's easy. Tomorrow I think I'm gonna loose 50 pounds. I'll just stop eating. I'll eat right. I'll exercise... the whole thing is a rerun that I've heard dozens of times; the ending is always the same.
I can't wait to see what new drugs I'm on ten years from now. Maybe all of these drugs will kill me first.
Correction about Celebrex
Date: 2005-02-04 02:00 pm (UTC)Re: Correction about Celebrex
Date: 2005-02-04 03:55 pm (UTC)Thanks for the clarification! All of these TV ads get confusing (and are probably detrimental to health care).