Posted by cubbybear on May 1, 2003, at 3:08:07
In reply to Re: » cubbybear, posted by Questionmark on April 30, 2003, at 23:02:32
> Were you underweight? Do you think that it just helps overweight people lose weight and underweight people gain-- or is that just foolish naive hope for something that happens in this world?
I am only 5 ft. 6 in. and normally weigh about 137 when I'm not depressed. (Living here in Thailand --with the Asian diet as it is--doesn't enable anyone to ever really put on weight.) I believe this is considered normal. Over a period of months of bad depression, by Jan. and Feb., of this year, I had lost so much weight from inability to eat, that I was down to 118 by the time I started the Parnate on Mar. 4. Within one month of the drug kicking in,I had regained about 15 pounds.
As for your second question, I seriously doubt if the drug "chooses" who gains and who loses weight depending on whether they're over or underweight. I may be just an exception to the majority who lose weight from it. There are so many complex factors that are involved in body functioning, I don't think the doctors even know.
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