Posted by PodWoman on February 5, 2003, at 13:47:49
In reply to Re: Topamax long term OCD bing eater, posted by Karmagirl on February 4, 2003, at 16:30:22
Wow. What an eye openner I had this a.m. As frustrating as it has been being the human lab rat for lo these many years/months, this psychiatrist I saw today was amazed to see all the meds I take. His plan? Take me off all but 3 of them (keep the acne, thryroid + Ambien meds)and STOP taking the Wellbutrin, the Valium, the Buspar and the Lexapro. In short, he thinks I have been over medicated and misdiagnosed.
Wow. I feel a bit nervous about potentially going off the deep end, but also relieved to streamline my medicine cabinet. I see him again on Friday (day after tomorrow). We talked about the Topamax and he said we'd talk more about it Friday. He's a big supporter of it for weight loss. He's thinking I might have what is called Atypical depression, and that overeating may be a symtom of this OR/AND physically linked to a benign tumor in my ovary once, fat cell over production (brain-related) or metabolism abnormalities connected to 2 difficult pregnancies.
Does any of this sound familiar to anyone out there?? Please tell me I'm not alone...He was astounded that nurses (practitioners) and general physicians were/are even predtending to dabble in diagnosing psychiatric issues with medication. Frankly, I have to agree...and this is coming from me, the human lab rat.> Hey Podwoman!! I'm probably not going to be much help with the meds. cause I take the Topomax for pseudotumor syndrome. I suffer from the occasional depression and PMS but never had any meds for it. I got one question for you though? What's eating you? I read an article in a magazine of a bunch of ex-fatties (putting it nicely) and one of them who'd lost like 160 lbs. said that she had to get to the root of why she overate. I thought and prayed about that and asked God to show me why I overate. Just as sure as I asked Him, He did. What he showed me was that being molested as a child, I ate to make myself unattractive to my uncles, cousins and my brothers' friends that all molested me in one way or another. I was a very pretty child and the fat was a way to hide myself since I couldn't really defend myself against older boys and grown men. I figured if I got fat enough, eventually they'd leave me alone. Well it worked, but it worked against me too. I was never able to bring any control into my life and my self esteem was so low that even I left me alone. Now, at 33, I have learned that it's okay to let the attractive me shine, and she IS shining!! TRUST ME!!! (lol) I don't have to hide anymore. I don't know if this is helpful to you or not but I have had good success with the Topomax. I've been posting since I started in June. It paints the picture of where I started and where I am now. I take 100 MG and was hoping my doc would bump me up to a higher dosage when I saw her last month but no haps. She kept me at 100 for the next 12 months and said she'd see me in Oct. unless I have any problems. Let me warn you about the cognitive side effects..I felt a little dull the first few days but it wore off. Let me know how it goes. GOOD LUCK!!
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