Posted by pretty_paints on February 14, 2006, at 12:03:24
Hello there,
I've just been diagnosed (yesterday) with Schizophrenia. I don't know how I feel about that at the moment. Is there anyone who has a similar diagnosis on this board?
My doc says I have a very untypical case, that it is Schizophrenia, but it doesn't fit into either one of the categories very well. It is mostly like Paranoid Schizophrenia she says, but not completely.
I am on Clozapine at the mo. It is making me put on a crazy amount of weight, 3 or 4 stone. However, my doc says that Clozapine works like this: it makes you crave sugar, so you eat it, but because of the Clozapine your body can't use it, so it stores it round the belly. I was wondering why I was such an unusal shape, not big hips and thighs and stomach, but just a normal figure and then a sticking-out belly that made me look pregnant! So I have tried to cut sugar completely out of my diet and also watch carbs. Hopefully, with exercise, I can try and keep my weight down.
Anyway, I would love to hear from anyone!
Hugs
Kate xx
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