Re: coming off pizotifen and thyroid and has anyone heard of spatone?

[Guest guest]

HI SHA

I was on Pitzotifen at one time and my weight increased, so did your weight go

up, if so could it be causing ones thyroid to be more Hypothyroid.

Kathleen

>

> Hi everyone

> found out last week that the pizotifen i've been taking for 3 years i've been

having allergic reactions too since starting them, having a really tough time

coming off them the withdrawals are horrendous, feel like i'm right back at the

begining of my treatment at the moment.

> love Sha xxxxx

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Kathleen

i have put on 9 stone since being on pizotifen , the withdrawals are really

nasty , i don't know if i'm hypothyroid or just withdrawing as the symptoms are

the same, i hope this doesn't last long. One of the reasons i put this up was

until and i were talking and i looked at the advice sheet (which i don't

normally read) then went to my gp as i had been allergic to it from the start ,

the gps just hadn't listened to the symptoms i was in and out about for months,

i had NO idea that this could be holding my recovery back.

love Sha xxxxxxx

>

> HI SHA

> I was on Pitzotifen at one time and my weight increased, so did your weight go

up, if so could it be causing ones thyroid to be more Hypothyroid.

[Ed]

[Guest guest]

Dr P recommends spatone if your iron only needs to come up a bit, mine was low

so i take solgar gentle iron or bluebonnet but i know that he does like spatone

to bring up your iron. love Angie xxxxx

--- In thyroid treatment , " shazzierich " <shazzierich@...

> And has anyone heard of spatone?its an iron supplement and my friend says its

excellent, i tried it and i felt rough after it but i need to get my iron up

abit.

> love Sha xxxxx

>

Hi Sha,

[Guest guest]

HI SHA

I was put on Pitzotifen for migraines, and I was already on Pimozide which had

in turn put on weight.

I think I was already by then on Thyroxine.

Pitzotifen caused another 3 stone to go on. At the time I was told that it was

fluid, so then came Frusimide, so that dose was increased as it did not cause me

to spend pennies, but I found that I was leaving tea and not drinking it.

I got up one morning and struggled to get the former Husbands breakfast and

nearly flaked out.

I ended up in bed with a bad headache and being sick on trying to drink plus the

headache getting worse. I was told to stop taking the Frusimide.

Although not allowed to mention this GP's name who retired at the time I wrote

to the Health Ombudsman about the problems I had, had. This is a GP that caused

me so much ill health nearly killing me off, and caused me to get cancer.

I was only on a small dose of Pimozide (but in turn they do not know what the

toxic dose is), and came off it badly.

Before I had the electrolye imbalance I had at first been put on a drug for

incontinence which made me feel bad, so that was stopped, and I was put on

quinine for cramp and that in turn caused me to feel ill, so I stopped that.

I was also on iron, but this was not kept an eye on by the GP, and when I was

hospitalised for the water imbalance I was told that I did not need iron, so

could I have needed it and is it possible to be given too much iron, as in turn

I was constipated and could not eat for three weeks (at this time there was

also a large polyp filling the whole of the uterus) so imagine the pain I was

in, and yet again this was caused by Tamoxifen to treat breast cancer, in turn

caused by pimozide. All I can say is NEVER TRUST A DOCTOR WITH DRUGS, and they

wonder why patients have no trust in them.

I hope Sha that you manage to get off Pitzotifen and get your weight down. GOOD

LUCK

Kathleen xx

I myself no longer trust Doctor with drugs, and I do have to wonder if some have

shares in the drug companies.

To me a Doctor appears to lack the simplest of diagnostic skills due to relying

on gadgetry and test results which some Doctors read differently to others, but

one has to ask who are they basing these blood test results on, and how can they

say what is normal.

Kathleen

>

> Hi Kathleen

> i have put on 9 stone since being on pizotifen , the withdrawals are really

nasty , i don't know if i'm hypothyroid or just withdrawing as the symptoms are

the same, i hope this doesn't last long. > love Sha xxxxxxx