Marianne...Oxycontin -anyone losing weight?????

From: Janet Karam (janetk7@earthlink.net)
Wed Aug 1 18:00:29 2001


Dear Marianne,

I've been treating myself to Thai curry or coconut curry sauces. My stomach doesn't tolerate fruit or vegetables...they come back up...maybe steamed broccoli or carrots, that's about it, if anything has a skin, forget it.

I'm not a doc, so I have no right to say this....but get off that Metamucil!!!...it is likely making your problems a zillion times worse, it did for me anyway.

Love,

Janet

> [Original Message]
> From: marianne bolding <ojowojo@yahoo.com>
> To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com> > Date: 8/1/01 10:32:36 AM
> Subject: Re: Helen C.- Oxycontin -anyone losing weight?????
>
> Janet sounds like me...I too feel so bloated that I
> feel probably fuller than I am. Add to that if you
> have constipation and diarrhea, as I do...then you're
> going to lose weight from the diarrhea. I eat P & B
> too...I eat mine on a grain bagel...6 gms. of fiber,
> here. (2 in a tblspn. of Peanut butter...and 4 gms in
> the bagel. Plus the extra calories in peanut
> butter...)I was also told they help with bowel
> movements...even though I have to take Metamucil three
> times a day on top. And Janet...I'd like to know what
> sauce you are using on your rice...I am so tired of
> plain brown rice. Love, Marianne
> --- Janet Karam <janetk7@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Dear Helen C.,
> >
> > I heard peanut butter & jelly sandwiches help for
> > weight gain....rather
> > yummy.
> >
> > With snacking, and that good old feeling of fullness
> > that hits us after
> > eating a pretzel, I think we get to thinking we are
> > eating more than we
> > actually are. I am trying to replace snacks with a
> > half or whole p&j
> > sandwich, a cup of rice with sauce, yogurt, or a
> > bowl of cereal...I guess
> > bigger snacks is what I'm trying to say. I'm
> > shooting for around 200
> > calories each time I eat, 8-10 times a day. I'm
> > looking pretty ribby at
> > 105lbs.
> >
> > Hope we hear from some others, it's a good question.
> >
> > Love,
> >
> > Janet
> >
> > > [Original Message]
> > > From: <Hchalm@aol.com>
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
> > <adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
> > > Date: 7/31/01 11:53:33 PM
> > > Subject: Re: Helen C.- Oxycontin -anyone losing
> > weight?????
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> >
> > --- Janet Karam
> > --- janetk7@earthlink.net
> >
> > http://www.adhesions.org/forums/listcmds.htm
>
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