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11-02-2018 12:46 PM
11-02-2018 12:46 PM
Re: Contracting Diabetes while on anti anxiety medication
no list yet @Mazarita, but good idea
got the birthday list
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11-02-2018 12:50 PM
11-02-2018 12:50 PM
Re: Contracting Diabetes while on anti anxiety medication
sending you lots of tender hugs my awesome friend @Former-Member
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11-02-2018 01:26 PM
11-02-2018 01:26 PM
Re: Contracting Diabetes while on anti anxiety medication
I now take diabetes medication and have to watch what i eat.
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11-02-2018 01:33 PM
11-02-2018 01:33 PM
Re: Contracting Diabetes while on anti anxiety medication
it was the anti-psychotics that were to blame.-- yes my husband thinks his is caused by the anti-psychotics too ( He has not been diagnosed yet with Diabetes ) BUT @Former-Member
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11-02-2018 01:34 PM
11-02-2018 01:34 PM
Re: Contracting Diabetes while on anti anxiety medication
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11-02-2018 01:36 PM
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Re: Contracting Diabetes while on anti anxiety medication
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11-02-2018 01:41 PM
11-02-2018 01:41 PM
Re: Contracting Diabetes while on anti anxiety medication
he has being trying to get off hem but has to go back on them @Former-Member
my husband`s think if he stops taking them he will loss weight but he has to quickly go back on them
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11-02-2018 01:45 PM
11-02-2018 01:45 PM
Re: Contracting Diabetes while on anti anxiety medication
But I try to look at it like - I wouldn't be eating healthily or exercising or generally LIVING if I wasn't on them.
So it's hard being on them, but at least I can LIVE whilst on them.
I think you just need to up your exercise and be really strict about diet. Diabetes medication also helped stabilise my weight.
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11-02-2018 01:50 PM
11-02-2018 01:50 PM
Re: Contracting Diabetes while on anti anxiety medication
@Shaz51 Yes, Type 2 Diabetic here, diagnosed approx 10 years ago, and controlled by diligence with my food intake.
2nd pregnancy developed gestational diabetes. Weight loss, lifestyle changes and sheer bloodymindedness brought it under control for a long time.
The main influence of my decline from insulin resistance to T2 was improperly diagnosed and treated stress overload for too many years. My trauma reactions were incorrectly diagnosed as epilepsy and that was what I was heavily medicated for almost 40 years ago.
Then when the PTSD was diagnosed, the anti-anxiety meds and anti-depressants followed, another devastating viral infection meant over a year of daily cortisone as well. The weight gain began then and for the last 15 years nothing has altered my weight more than within a 2 to 8kg fluctuation.
While I can blame the meds for a number of my current health issues, I can also thank them for (literally) saving my life. All the neglected stress issues left me with exhausted adrenals, so I do what I can for that.
In the end I have chosen to use the meds to get the problematic issues under control, researched up to date info in the area of diabetes (keeping carb content of each meal / snack under 50 carbs keeps my hba1c in normal levels), and put it into practice so I at least feel like I have some control over my own health.
I hope this might help is some small way. I agree with Sherry too.
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11-02-2018 01:59 PM
11-02-2018 01:59 PM
Re: Contracting Diabetes while on anti anxiety medication
Thank you @Former-Member, @Former-Member , and sending you hugs