I had a DNA test done by my psychiatrist and had variations in four genes. Two genes marked me for depression two marked me for other dangerous things. One was vulnerability to euphoric effects of drugs of abuse and the second was the possibility of weight gain with one of my drugs, risperdal. What the test was for was to find our what medications would best suit me. Fortunately the psychiatrist had already put me on the drugs that the findings of the test suggested. This test was done with saliva and sent to a lab in PA. Web address genomind.com
Showing posts with label weight gain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weight gain. Show all posts
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Anafranil: Makes me FAT!
January first I weighed about 130, now about two weeks into the new year and the drug I am ten pounds heavier. I asked the psychiatrist about this and she agreed that it makes you crave the fat in the foods. I think it is the sugar in the foods. I mean that I don't crave ice cream, but corn chips, popcorn, rice with butter. You get the idea. If I was more of a sweets person, I would go down that road, but I am more of a salt person, hence the chips.
The antidepressants and the side effects are not what I really want for myself, but they keep me "sane".
By sane I mean non-depression, a state that lets me handle the stresses and life without breaking down and entering in a mental hospital. This is the raw edge of life. Take a drug that makes the body react in a very unhealthy way so that the mind can cope with the stress. Catch 22? In a LOOP of POOP?
To maintain a healthy body one must have put into the body non-acidic products. Medications are of their nature, acidic. But to have a mind that is not terrorized by depressive, anxious thoughts is a priority as well. So down the road to ill health again? To being overweight and other health problems because of the way the drugs are causing me to feel and react?? The diagnosis was OCD and I can see how that applies, just in the anxiety prone nature of this post.
The antidepressants and the side effects are not what I really want for myself, but they keep me "sane".
By sane I mean non-depression, a state that lets me handle the stresses and life without breaking down and entering in a mental hospital. This is the raw edge of life. Take a drug that makes the body react in a very unhealthy way so that the mind can cope with the stress. Catch 22? In a LOOP of POOP?
To maintain a healthy body one must have put into the body non-acidic products. Medications are of their nature, acidic. But to have a mind that is not terrorized by depressive, anxious thoughts is a priority as well. So down the road to ill health again? To being overweight and other health problems because of the way the drugs are causing me to feel and react?? The diagnosis was OCD and I can see how that applies, just in the anxiety prone nature of this post.
Monday, June 7, 2010
Psyllium husks and weight gain and other things
I started psyllium husks in my diet on June second. It took me two days to start eliminating waste. But I started gaining weight almost as fast. In order to remove the toxic wastes in the bowl I needed more water in the system to loosen up the stool.
In that stool resides the poisons of many years. Gluten, medications, results of poor digestion, oxidized fat, results of poor liver function, you name it, all reside in that colon.
If I am so sensitive to the small in take of a very small amount of sugars, what is the accumulated toxins of years of constipation doing to my brain and body? Antidepressants also make one constipated. So this is another step in the detox process. Loosen up the bowel and get rid of some of the depression. Sounds good to me.
When the bowel started to move the dental problems started to go away.I don't know if this will clear away all of the tenderness in the gums, but I will be willing to hang in there to see how far the gums come back to normal. All the dentist wanted to do is cut on the gums to relieve the inflammation. No mention that chronic constipation could cause the gums to inflame.
The chiropractor mentioned this was possible. Toxins build up and cause different aches and pains. I am, after a year of detoxing, still experiencing soreness around lymph glands when I eat something that I should not. Other things of note are that my vision sharpens when toxins are clear. Moodines declines, depression leaves. Much better I will feel when these things are all clearing out of the system.
In that stool resides the poisons of many years. Gluten, medications, results of poor digestion, oxidized fat, results of poor liver function, you name it, all reside in that colon.
If I am so sensitive to the small in take of a very small amount of sugars, what is the accumulated toxins of years of constipation doing to my brain and body? Antidepressants also make one constipated. So this is another step in the detox process. Loosen up the bowel and get rid of some of the depression. Sounds good to me.
When the bowel started to move the dental problems started to go away.I don't know if this will clear away all of the tenderness in the gums, but I will be willing to hang in there to see how far the gums come back to normal. All the dentist wanted to do is cut on the gums to relieve the inflammation. No mention that chronic constipation could cause the gums to inflame.
The chiropractor mentioned this was possible. Toxins build up and cause different aches and pains. I am, after a year of detoxing, still experiencing soreness around lymph glands when I eat something that I should not. Other things of note are that my vision sharpens when toxins are clear. Moodines declines, depression leaves. Much better I will feel when these things are all clearing out of the system.
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