Posted by Maxime on June 13, 2003, at 14:54:45
In reply to Re: Do you think meds will help, posted by avid abulia on June 13, 2003, at 13:57:56
I tend to avoid sodium at all costs for fear of water retention. Sigh. OK, this is really hard for me to do but I will try and ad some to my daily diet and see if it helps.
Having an ED makes all food seem so damn scary!
Max
> mostly just from watching my friends (a lot of them are also nuts) a lot of the say, agh, these meds don`t work! and quit taking them, when in fact, what they find out later is, the meds just aren`t working well, not not working.
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> as regards dizziness and lamictal, i noticed that you mention you have an eating disorder (as do i). how is your sodium intake? when i started lamictal, i had very low sodium/potassium ratio in my diet (about 2:5) because of eating low-Cal vegetables and refusing to eat sodium-rich foods much at all... but extracellular sodium is critical for neuronal excitability, and from what you describe it sounds like your neurons are not all that excitable right now... i was having the same problem, but forced myself to get a bit more sodium and that seemed to help a bit. now, as my body has had a while to adjust, i`m eating my old diet and not having such problems anymore.
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> ~AA
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