Posted by CEK on April 4, 2006, at 11:57:38
In reply to Re: cymbalta and weight gain, will Esam be a issue » CEK, posted by Racer on April 4, 2006, at 11:05:04
Yes and I loved it. It really did the trick. It took away all urges to eat whatever when I wasn't even hungry. I completely lost that elated feeling when I ate. I was able to eat healthy foods when I needed to eat and not just for "self medicating with food." I made my 1st doctor give me that with Lamictal,and I think that would've helped me, but my new pdoc added Zoloft and Seroquel to my cocktail and stopped the Topamax. I don't know why. I guess he likes fat miserable patients. I wish I could tell a pdoc what my problems are and that he would actually listen. I know that I don't know everything and that I don't have their years of medical training but I do know my own body. I wish I could walk into his office and tell him," Listen, this is what's going on. This is what I want to try. Shut up. I don't want to be a fat walking zombie. I'm not taking the Seroquel, this is what you're going to give me and I'll suffer the consiquences. If there's a problem, I'll let you know and then tell you what else to try." It would be nice if it could be this way. Instead I am forced to do things his way, suffer the side effects, stop this medicine, then stop that medicine. I don't know how many prescriptions that I have paid for and then had the pdoc stop a week later. Heck, give me samples at least! I just wish he'd let me take the Lamictal and Topamax and give me something that is more fast acting for the anxiety and leave me be. It would be nice to see if that would work. He stopped the Zoloft because he thought the combination of that and Seroquel were causing my bad side effects, and decreased the Seroquel from 100mg to 50mg. Sunday after taking Bactrim for a kidney infection(which I think had to have been caused by the Seroquel) I developed a rash. No one knows if it started because of the Bactrim or because Thursday he increased my Lamictal from 50mg to 100mg. So now he has stopped that too. I hate Seroquel! This is all that I have to take now according to him and at 50mg at night, how is this going to help me? Besides compulsive eating I suffer from major depression and rapid cycling and panic attacks with major anxiety. I guess he thinks it's ok to leave me alone here with just a small dose of Seroquel to take(in which I don't want to) since he doesn't have to live with me. Out of sight, out of mind.
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