Posted by gardenergirl on January 18, 2005, at 20:30:39
In reply to Re: Nardil Side Effects and Weight Gain, posted by smith562 on January 18, 2005, at 19:22:34
> My weight gain from nardil was secondary to hypoglyemia. Nardil is know to impair the liver's ability to synthesize glucose ... sugar. You need to produce sugar for you brain in between meals or brain cells die (and fast-insulin coma-no sugar, dead brain cells). So I had tremendous carbohyrade craving between meals. All that sugar packed on 30 lbs of fat. Nothing resolved this problem except stopping nardil.
Aha, this makes sense to me. I know from my own experience as well as my husband's, who is diabetic, that it takes time for food to alleviate hypoglycemia symptoms. That may be why I have been binging on Nardil when I did not before. Perhaps I keep eating until I feel the effect, even though I could have stopped and waited for my blood sugar to catch up.
This may give me something to use to work on reducing the binges.
Thanks!
gg
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> Hope this helped
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> Smith
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