On Monday, August 6, 2012 10:02:24 PM UTC-5, Julie Bove wrote:
> This is getting very frustrating. First the lack of appetite and now this.
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> Right now pretty much nothing sounds good to eat, ever. On the plus side I
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> do seem to have an appetite sometimes. Sometimes an incredible appetite.
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> It's as though I can hear my insides squeaking, I feel so empty.
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> I am having a horrible time coming up with things to eat for meals and
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> snacks. Breakfast is not such a problem. I just eat toast then and I tend
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> to eat it as quickly as possible just to get it over with. If I need a
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> snack between then and dinner (and sometimes I do) then I eat a fruit snack.
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> That's over with in 3 bites and they do taste good to me so really not a
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> problem. But soon I'll be out and will have to switch over to Craisins.
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> Angela was sneaking the fruit snacks so I can't buy them any more.
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> The problem is with dinner and my bed time snack. No matter what I fix to
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> eat or order in a restaurant, I just don't want it once I have it. I have
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> even taken to dishing up smaller portions when at home because I know I
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> won't be able to eat it all. I take two bites and then this weird sensation
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> comes over me. I feel like I want to cry. I don't actually cry. I just
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> get this thought in my mind that I want to cry. And then I feel like I just
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> want to go to bed and sleep and forget about food. I don't really want to
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> sleep and most of the time when I get this thought I am not even sleepy or
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> tired.
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> The other night this happened in a restaurant. I had a hamburger patty with
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> lettuce, tomato and onion. This would never be my first choice for a meal
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> and I don't really like this so much but it is one of the few things I can
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> eat in a restaurant. As in, I am not intolerant to these foods and I can
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> digest them. The weird thing is that the food tasted really good to me. I
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> even commented on how good it was because I didn't think I was going to like
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> it. But after the two bites I just didn't want to eat any more. I still
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> felt hungry. But I didn't want to eat it. I had to force myself. And then
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> I had the French fries which I knew that I had to eat because my BG was a
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> little on the low side. I really had to force myself to eat those and I
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> must say that they did taste weird to me. They had some sort of seasoning
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> on them.
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> Even foods that I really like, like black bean soup, baked beans, refried
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> beans, etc. are now difficult for me to eat beyond the second bite.
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> This all seemed to start up when I stopped taking the Metoclopramide. I
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> know it speeds up digestion and I also know that it does something to the
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> dopamine in the body. It was originally designed to treat depression (I
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> think) but it failed miserably at that. They did notice that it sped up
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> digestion so it is used for that and also for migraines. Although oddly the
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> information I read about it said it could also cause migraines.
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> I did read that the withdrawals from this med can be brutal but nobody
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> really spelled out what would/could happen when you withdraw from it.
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> Right now I just wish that I never had to eat again. If I could get all of
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> my nutrition in a pill, I would be very happy. And although I do take a lot
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> of supplements, I know I am not getting enough calories from them. Plus
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> they wouldn't keep my BG up and unlike many diabetics if I don't eat enough
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> carbs, I go hypo.
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> Logically, my mind is telling me that this is sort of like depression and
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> yet... It is very fleeting. I seem to get these feelings only when I have
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> to eat. I had similar feelings when I was pregnant but then I did burst
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> into tears when faced with a meal mainly because of the amount of food I was
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> supposed to eat when pregnant. There was just no way I could ever eat that
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> much! Breakfast was fine because that was the smallest meal of the day.
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> But lunch was bad and dinner was sheer torture. Plus I was supposed to eat
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> snacks that I didn't want.
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> When I was pregnant I would spent a good two hours crying while trying to
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> eat the food. Now I do not cry. I just have thoughts that I should. I
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> almost always wind up not being able to eat all of the food even with
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> reduced portions. And then once I get rid of the remaining food, I feel
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> fine. Of course eating less food is causing problems with a few hypos. I
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> have been solving this by eating gummy bears which I don't particularly like
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> but neither do I dislike them.
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> When I am not eating a meal or snack, I feel fine. I do not feel like I am
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> depressed at all. But when it's time to eat, it isn't pretty.
Some links related to Metoclopramide withdrawal:
Reglan - Side Effects and Withdrawal Symptoms
http://www.tardivedyskinesia.com/reg...de-effects.php
Withdrawal effects of metoclopramide
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1002885/
Metoclopramide
http://www.drugs.com/metoclopramide.html
Reglan Withdrawal
http://www.healthcentral.com/acid-re...ithdrawal.html
Reglan Oral Uses and How to Use
http://www.healthcentral.com/acid-re...uses?ic=506048
Reglan: How to Stop
http://www.ehow.com/how_7334417_reglan_-stop.html
METOCLOPRAMIDE
http://www.wellsphere.com/digestive-...pramide/696523
Reglan is one brand of Metoclopramide.
Summary of what I found:
Eating disorders not mentioned.
Taking too much of it or for too long is likely to cause muscle control disorders, such as tardive dyskinesia.
Stopping use of it can cause dizziness, nervousness, and headaches if the dose is not reduced gradually.