I did but I was still morbidly obese at the time. However, instead of weighing over 250, I did get down to 200-210 for the next few years. I came off it in 2003 and didn't get my DS until 2011.
But it''s also why I am so against the use of that medication...I understand not everything happens ro everyone, we all have different side effects to medications but that one stole so many years of my life due to memory issues (not long term but short term memory). It IS better but I still have problems.
After your comments, I decided to halt it. For Interstitial Cystitis, which I have had to deal with off and on for twenty years, I was taking Elmiron (not 100% effective, just the ONLY Rx for IC) on a daily basis, and had just been prescribed the Gabapentin. And, I also take--prn pain--pyridium, Urispas and occasionally Norco. Add to that three consecutive Tuesdays of bladder instillations of Heparin and Lidocaine.
So, if I start getting pain relief, how the hell am I supposed to know what, if anything, is providing relief??
I decided that if I stopped the Elmiron, which I don't think was doing anything, and the Gabapentin, and continued to use the prn's intermittently, we could see if the bladder instillations were helping.
I think they are?! Not perfection...but when I need to, I take the prn meds and they seem to work as well as they did when I was on Elmiron and Gabapentin. We shall see.
( Hx...I've had the IC diagnosis forever. But I also have edema from congestive heart failure. So I need to take diuretics...to assist my heart...or I have edema...and walking and breathing at the same time becomes a challenge. UNFORTUNATELY, my already severely screwed-up bladder strongly objects to how efficiently that diuretic fills it with urine and pain spasms result. So the stuff that I apparently have to take to keep breathing causes disabling pain. Frustrating, at best.). (And tends to make me less than 100% compliant. I have a cardiac cath in a week or so...maybe some improvement will result from whatever happens there?)
Golden years...right.
PS...one of the side effects of Gabapentin is edema...which is where we came into this movie.
