Commensurate with my visit to the bariatric clinic yesterday, today I started on appetite suppressant medication.
As with most medicines, you can really scare the Hell out of yourself by reading through all of the side effects. The APRN in charge of the program would describe some terrible side effect and follow with, "sound good?"
For example, she told me, "There’s also a chance you could experience tingling sensations in your hands and in your feet. After your two weeks trial runs out, we’ll double the dose. Sound good?"
Lovely lady. I felt a little bad for laughing at her.
At mid-day today I felt a little dizzy and sick while eating lunch. It passed, but left me feeling exhausted. I didn’t feel that way tonight at dinner. So far, no toenails coming out of my back or excessive hair bursting from my eyeballs, so we’ll see what tomorrow brings.
|