Posted by Fivefires on June 27, 2007, at 19:24:46
In reply to Re: Racer, *Metformin* for weight gain??? More!, posted by Zyprexa on June 23, 2007, at 14:50:41
Feel like I could respond to every post in this thread, not because my input is needed, but rather because it's so interesting watching an important issue being discussed.
I'm not sure if I said anything here about seeing an older, new to me, Pdoc today, but I did.
He had never heard of 'Metformin, a medication used alongside an atypical antipsychotic to help prevent weight gain'. What are between the apostrophes are my words to him.
He said, 'Meds don't cause weight gain. The appetite may be stimulated, but it is the patients who eat incorrectly'. :{
I also asked him if he was familiar w/ selective serotonin reuptake 'enhancers' v. 'inhibitors', and he'd never heard of them(?) and acted confused about the concept, so I got confused too, and said no more about it!? (I hate it when that happens!)
Apparently he's the oldest Pdoc here in the county! (Do they just 'stop learning' or what?)
W/o any options I’d dreamed might have been offered to me today, I ordered up ‘another AD’. I'll give Cymbalta a try. I'm just takin' the scrip and moseying on back to my other, younger, Pdoc.
If we keep talking about dissatisfaction with weight gain, maybe things will change.
In meantime, those of u, like u Zyprexa, pls keep me (or us ?) informed as to your well-being should u begin Metformin. Of course ‘all possible bad side effects' s*ck, so I know you'll keep in close contact w/ Pdoc, PCP, but here too please.
I'd try it, if I had the opportunity to do so.
I think I'm going through one of my 'rock the boat' periods. Is anyone picking up on this?
There's a thread about some improper Yiddish slang which pretty much sums me up. I think I’m a bit of a troublemaker. I truly ‘don't rock boats' to cause trouble. My intention is to cause change.
I'm not reading the side effects of Cymbalta, but will reach for phone should I need and appreciate you here for me. I need to get out of a bad depressive state, hindered by treatment resistance, but won't go w/ an atypical antipsychotic w/o its side effect of weight gain being managed somehow. So, it’s back to another AD for me. I have a c-spine injury, so maybe, like the commercial, Cymbalta will turn out to have been good for me. Won’t know till probably a week after begin tomorrow.
5f
ps: Racer - Why are there asterisks around the medication in the subject line? Is this a rule thing? Tks.
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