Posted by headachequeen on June 17, 2004, at 15:41:19
In reply to Re: Good Grief, posted by PoohBear on June 17, 2004, at 12:11:41
> Keep in mind that weight loss from Topomax is a SIDE EFFECT of a drug which is *meant* for seizure control. Since everyone's different, you *may not* see this SIDE EFFECT of the drug.
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>> Tony
This is a point that I used to keep stressing in my early months on this message board and have stopped preaching...
at times it worries me that people are given the med simply for its side effect, but then, my neurologist prescribed it as a secondary anti-seizure med because of the side effect (it is one of the best things he has found to combat headache problems, migraine and cluster headaches for instance, and he is head of the headache institute in his region so I guess he knows whereof he speaks...)
so I thought perhaps I was not the one to preach the side effect message...
and now many doctors are prescribing it for weight loss and not just psy-docs...
so?????many people are jumping on the atkins diet and trying that one, cutting down on carbs and hoping that will help, yet Atkins himself died morbidly obese and with extreme hypertension... that surely says something...
a balanced diet is much more helpful in weight management no matter the cause... and as a diabetic I have had counselling on that from some of the best...
besides we have to remember that many people who are battling weight and trying this means are battling weight gain caused by medications they were given to deal with psychological or emotional problems so it is not something that is simply an exercise or diet thing to be swept aside with a brush of the hand or the advice to exercise or eat less candy or whatever...
I know... I get more exercise than most believe me... aside from the music and the writing, I do a lot of extremely active things as I follow my dogs up hill and down dale and through culverts and barbed wire and over and under and through all sorts of impossible terrain, and around agility courses and doing obedience with them and with clients'dogs... and let us not overlook simply playing with them or show training... grooming is not exactly passive behaviour either... try lifting 90 to 100 pounds of dog onto a grooming table then working through all that double coat three times a week, or two or three times a day at a dog show...
so it is not always that easy....if there is a side effect to this stuff that helps, then so be it, we use it to our advantage...
kat
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