Re: Helen C.- Oxycontin -anyone losing weight?????
From: Hchalm@aol.com
Tue Jul 31 22:55:00 2001
Dear Robin:
Good question. I was only advised that I was being switched so that I
wouldn't become immune to the oxycontin. After sometime he would switch me
back. I did get my meds in the mail today, so hurrah for that, I made it
through yesterday without moving a muscle. I always thought that ms contin
was a morphine derivative and didn't think that oxycontin was. I really
didn't want to go on the ms contin as the thought of going on morphine scared
me. Today was uneventful (I took it waiting for maybe some sort of reaction
(delirium, wacked out), but felt almost the same except I think the oxycontin
works better as I had more breakthrough pain today than usual.
I was also switched to MSIR from the tylox and I have no idea what that is
either. I guess I should go and look it up and see what the heck it is.
What is really bothering me is the weight loss. Anyone losing weight being
on narcotic medication? I lost another 4 lbs and at this rate I should
disappear within the next 6 months. Any advice as to how to keep from
dropping the pounds I would appreciate it. Isn't this the switch; since my
mid thirties I had to fight that extra 10 pounds creeping up every now and
then,and now I'm fighting for every pound to put back on. OK, I'm eating
every snack in the house, and that's not helping, so anyone know of any
herbal remedy or anything of that nature that will help put the weight back
on. When I weighed myself at my daughter's physical today for middle school
the pediatrician found me crying because I had realized I had lost another 4
lbs this week and weighed in at 118. I started at 140 (that was that 10
pounds I was going to get rid of after the hysterectomy),I was hoping my
uterus weighed 10 lbs, but this has gone way to far. I left there and made an
appt. with my PCP hoping for some input.
Love to you all (hey and thanks for those that said they's miss me, I'd miss
all of you so much too).
Helen C.
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