I've been through 14 different medications since I started treatment back in 2011. Each one has had some major problem: two gave me violent tremors, one I was allergic to, two others made me sleep all the time, one made me drunk, two others put 20 pounds on me in four months....
Did I mention I have an eating disorder?
Six weeks ago I elected to go back on medication for my bipolar disorder. This was because I realized that although I was losing the weight I'd put on from the Seroquel, I was fighting a daily battle against the part of me that thought it was a good idea to jump out my 10th story window. This obviously was not an option. Back on the meds I went.
I was put on something called Saphris. I noticed that in two weeks I gained ten pounds and I was bingeing almost constantly. When I was off the med I was only bingeing once a month. The doctor dropped me down to the pediatric dose. I am down to bingeing once a week but I am eating myself out of house and home the rest of the time. Some of this may be that I skate three times a week and sail once a week. I am very athletic, more so than ever before. But I'm bingeing, still, far too often.
I am in a position now where I need to quickly figure out whether it is the med that is making me continue to binge once a week. The med works brilliantly and I desperately do not want to quit it. But I still don't know what's going on with the eating disorder. I have an idea though.
You see, I've never been able to shake the artificial / sugar replacers from my diet. It's part of the eating disorder that still lingers. Yet when I looked back at the last two weeks I've only binged twice. What happened the night before each of these binges? I had a beverage sweetened with stevia.
So I'm going to do a little challenge for myself. I want to see if it's really the stevia messing up my recovery, or whether it's just the med that's making me binge. So if you'll put up with ten days of posts on my progress, hopefully I'll have an answer about whether I have to choose between a med that makes me binge, or whether I can finally be happy and not have to worry about out-of-control eating. So that's it. No stevia, no diet sodas, no aspartame, no splenda. Nothing for ten days. Will I notice a change? Today is day 1. Here we go.
Best of luck with the experiment! Hopefully it is the artificial sweeteners, and you're able to make an adjustment. I sometimes wonder if my weight will ever not be an issue for me. I've spent my 30's on the side of the weight spectrum I'm not used to: Actually being overweight. I can't seem to figure out a way to lose the weight without triggering more compulsive behaviors. And it really doesn't help that Bryan is working out in the field again, eating more than ever, and losing weight everyday. He officially weighs less than I do (though he doesn't know that). I'd love to find a way to be "normal" physically and mentally at the same time.
ReplyDeleteGood luck! I've heard fake sugars cause all sorts of problems, so this very well could be the root of your troubles.
ReplyDeleteMeds can be so tricky, but not going into the black abyss is worth more than anything. Best of luck in finding answers.
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