Re: Weight gain and now loss...other issues related to treatment

[Guest guest]

Hi friends: I also ended up gaining 55 pounds after being on rocephin.

After one year, I have gone from 197 pounds to 140 and now I am facing losing

too

much weight from Irritable bowel syndrome...Sue Massey please call me. My

doctor put me on IV gamma globulin but I just found out that my medicare primary

only paid her a fraction of the cost and I am waiting for my secondary to pick

up the rest (my doctor's office tells me that the secondary balks at paying

and I signed a paper prior to my last infusion, being sick and desperate, to

pay the remainder...yikes that's 4,000 dollars I do not have).

Anyway, Sue, your advice about calcium/magnes. for the oral lesions (I had

them on my tongue and gums) worked amazingly well..they are gone and they were

driving me to the edge as they were so painful.

I don't know the systemic dynamics of rocephin but something seems to occur

to many people that causes such dramatic weight gain..anyone know why this is?

I wish you all good luck in losing the unwanted weight but I think Sue Massey

might be able to save you from my plight with IBS which makes my life

miserable.

Best wishes,

Donna

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 9/3/2003 9:26:02 AM Central Daylight Time,

AtTheLake@... writes:

> Valium aleviates my IBS. Rita

>

Thanks Rita, I will have to see if this might work for me when I speak to my

doctor.

Best wishes,

Donna

[Guest guest]

Valium aleviates my IBS. Rita

Re: [ ] Weight gain and now loss...other issues related to

treatment

Hi friends: I also ended up gaining 55 pounds after being on rocephin.

After one year, I have gone from 197 pounds to 140 and now I am facing losing

too

much weight from Irritable bowel syndrome...Sue Massey please call me. My

doctor put me on IV gamma globulin but I just found out that my medicare

primary

only paid her a fraction of the cost and I am waiting for my secondary to pick

up the rest (my doctor's office tells me that the secondary balks at paying

and I signed a paper prior to my last infusion, being sick and desperate, to

pay the remainder...yikes that's 4,000 dollars I do not have).

Anyway, Sue, your advice about calcium/magnes. for the oral lesions (I had

them on my tongue and gums) worked amazingly well..they are gone and they were

driving me to the edge as they were so painful.

I don't know the systemic dynamics of rocephin but something seems to occur

to many people that causes such dramatic weight gain..anyone know why this is?

I wish you all good luck in losing the unwanted weight but I think Sue Massey

might be able to save you from my plight with IBS which makes my life

miserable.

Best wishes,

Donna

[Guest guest]

-Hello,

sorry to hear of your lyme related problems... My doc today explained

to me rocephin does not itself cause the weight gain... he says it is

blocked receptor sites... sometimes after we start on rocephin the

disease actually starts to migrate into our receptor sites.. it is a

great place to live... and the receptor sites are the last places for

the little guys to take up residence...which is unfortunate because

then protein can't get into the cells to give us just normal

energy... so the body just reads this as too much sugar in the blood

stream and starts storing it as unwanted fat...so thats why even low

carb atkins type diets don't work for me and others....even though we

think its protein the body just turns it all into fat anyway...

Well, that is what my doctor says anyway... he does say when the

treatment is near the end and the receptor sites become free I will

loose the weight...

Take care,

-- In , " Marie " <AtTheLake@s...> wrote:

> Valium aleviates my IBS. Rita

> Re: [ ] Weight gain and now loss...other issues

related to treatment

>

>

> Hi friends: I also ended up gaining 55 pounds after being on

rocephin.

> After one year, I have gone from 197 pounds to 140 and now I am

facing losing too

> much weight from Irritable bowel syndrome...Sue Massey please

call me. My

> doctor put me on IV gamma globulin but I just found out that my

medicare primary

> only paid her a fraction of the cost and I am waiting for my

secondary to pick

> up the rest (my doctor's office tells me that the secondary balks

at paying

> and I signed a paper prior to my last infusion, being sick and

desperate, to

> pay the remainder...yikes that's 4,000 dollars I do not have).

>

> Anyway, Sue, your advice about calcium/magnes. for the oral

lesions (I had

> them on my tongue and gums) worked amazingly well..they are gone

and they were

> driving me to the edge as they were so painful.

>

> I don't know the systemic dynamics of rocephin but something

seems to occur

> to many people that causes such dramatic weight gain..anyone know

why this is?

>

> I wish you all good luck in losing the unwanted weight but I

think Sue Massey

> might be able to save you from my plight with IBS which makes my

life

> miserable.

>

> Best wishes,

>

> Donna

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

he does say when the

> treatment is near the end and the receptor sites become free I will

> loose the weight...

Nevermind! I see you answered that question already! ::blushing::

Regards,

Roxanne

[Guest guest]

Hey,

I am so looking forward to my receptor sites opening up for

business... I am so tired of being fat!!!! No, diets work and not

eating at all does not work... not even the tossing my cookies

works... I don't do it on purpose...I guess it is the

rocephin...well anyway...OPEN SESAME...RECEPTOR SITES...

LOL!!

ANGELA

> he does say when the

> > treatment is near the end and the receptor sites become free I

will

> > loose the weight...

>

> Nevermind! I see you answered that question

already! ::blushing::

> Regards,

> Roxanne