Food,food,food (Day 16)

KelleyP · 05-05-2005, 09:02 AM

I seem to be the opposite of everyone. I'm nauseated first thing in the morning, but the rest of the day all I think about is food. This is one of the reasons I was put on Paxil in the first place. I suffer from bolemia (?Sp). I thought I had licked it for a while there, but within the last year there were times I would do it 5 times in a day. Net result....weight gain.

I guess food is my comfort and has been most of my life. So why wouldn't it continue to be during withdrawal?

I guess this is one thing I can't blame Paxil for. Maybe once I recover from withdrawal I will be able to address whatever the real problem is behind my eating disorder. I just love food and want to eat all of it.!!!!!

Kelley

SuSu · 05-05-2005, 09:27 AM

Kelley...thanks so much for your honesty and your bravery!

I'm right here with you on day whatever of WD...I think it's 10, quit a week ago last Tuesday. I'm nauseated when I get up till I go to bed, with an afternoon cocktail of Paxil flu.

I think it's really important for us to be able to talk about the things that led us to being prescribed Paxil. I was given it by my GP after having suffered what I later found out was a very very minor panic attack. Today I realize that, since my husband was so near death and I was caretaking him, what I experienced was a sense of being truly overwhelmed and exhausted. Paxil was not an appropriate solution to what would have been better handled in therapy. Thanks, doc...thanks advertising department of the GSK megacorpsvernment.

I have food issues, too, and got to a point where I started drinking daquiris in high school as a laxative. I think I just detoured into party mode, though, using drugs and booze to help me cope with my anxiety, which included body image problems. I obsess on food, too, always have, and I agree, now we can finally start to help ourselves with that problem...

But in more healthy ways, like going back to the causes and conditions that caused me to get a food = pacifier trigger. I know right off the bat that it's related to my anxiety.

Right now, I'm in the fight for my life as I get through this WD and all its arsenal of scary rollercoaster symptoms. Once I'm through battling this evil demon from hell's toilet, I have a list of to do's, not in any specific order:
quit ciggies, re-view relationship to food; secure suitable employment; finish remodel as cheaply as possible while not ruining home; thank my son, since he's had to endure so much caca these last several years.

Hang in there...we can doooo this!!! xox

05-05-2005, 09:02 AM	#1
KelleyP Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Lennoxville, Qc Posts: 47	Food,food,food (Day 16) I seem to be the opposite of everyone. I'm nauseated first thing in the morning, but the rest of the day all I think about is food. This is one of the reasons I was put on Paxil in the first place. I suffer from bolemia (?Sp). I thought I had licked it for a while there, but within the last year there were times I would do it 5 times in a day. Net result....weight gain. I guess food is my comfort and has been most of my life. So why wouldn't it continue to be during withdrawal? I guess this is one thing I can't blame Paxil for. Maybe once I recover from withdrawal I will be able to address whatever the real problem is behind my eating disorder. I just love food and want to eat all of it.!!!!! Kelley __________________ Paxil free since April 18, 2005

05-05-2005, 09:27 AM	#2
SuSu Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: California Posts: 779	Re: Food,food,food (Day 16) Kelley...thanks so much for your honesty and your bravery! I'm right here with you on day whatever of WD...I think it's 10, quit a week ago last Tuesday. I'm nauseated when I get up till I go to bed, with an afternoon cocktail of Paxil flu. I think it's really important for us to be able to talk about the things that led us to being prescribed Paxil. I was given it by my GP after having suffered what I later found out was a very very minor panic attack. Today I realize that, since my husband was so near death and I was caretaking him, what I experienced was a sense of being truly overwhelmed and exhausted. Paxil was not an appropriate solution to what would have been better handled in therapy. Thanks, doc...thanks advertising department of the GSK megacorpsvernment. I have food issues, too, and got to a point where I started drinking daquiris in high school as a laxative. I think I just detoured into party mode, though, using drugs and booze to help me cope with my anxiety, which included body image problems. I obsess on food, too, always have, and I agree, now we can finally start to help ourselves with that problem... But in more healthy ways, like going back to the causes and conditions that caused me to get a food = pacifier trigger. I know right off the bat that it's related to my anxiety. Right now, I'm in the fight for my life as I get through this WD and all its arsenal of scary rollercoaster symptoms. Once I'm through battling this evil demon from hell's toilet, I have a list of to do's, not in any specific order: quit ciggies, re-view relationship to food; secure suitable employment; finish remodel as cheaply as possible while not ruining home; thank my son, since he's had to endure so much caca these last several years. Hang in there...we can doooo this!!! xox __________________ Mixing fear with imagination is a dangerous recipe ********* 12/01: 10 mg Paxil for very mild panic attack 10/02: quit CT after very severe panic attack 12/03: restart 20 mg; stopped working 01/05: tapered in 2.5 increments to zero 04/25/05: final dose, thank God! Side Effects while on the drug: horrid WD symptoms: horrifying...but Michelangelo is kicking butt with awesome kowabunga ninja turtle power!!!

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