Posted by Racer on August 6, 2004, at 12:07:53
In reply to Re: Stress Hormone Cortisol, posted by twinmom on August 5, 2004, at 10:35:17
Ugh. Here's what I know about zyprexa, that might be worth bashing your pdoc over the head with: zyprexa can cause type II diabetes directly, through metabolic syndrome x. Period. No, it doesn't depend on you gaining weight to throw you over the diabetic wall. The drug causes changes to your endocrine system, and that's what causes the weight gain.
That being the case, talk to her about having you check your blood sugar. Not fun, since you get to poke holes in your fingers a dozen times a day, but isn't that worth it?
I'm sorry you're going through this. Again, believe me I know that it's more awful than your doctor is willing to admit to you. I hope that those doctors who say those hurtful things actually know that they're not helping, but maybe they believe it.
My cousin's wife is an ob/gyn. When their baby was three months old, she said over dinner that she was learning that all those things she was saying to her patients was absurd: that once she had the same stresses they had, she learned that htey weren't just being lazy. Um, DUH?
I'm sorry.
(And I'm in the worst pit imaginable right now, so sorry if I"m not making sense, or if I sound actively hostile. It's not towards you. It's just that I'd give anything not to feel anything right now.)
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