Narcolepsy Forum Posting

Posted by Linda on August 11, 1999 at 20:09:54:

In Reply to: Re: Provigil and Weight Gain posted by Mary Anne on August 11, 1999 at 06:29:08:

Dear Mary Anne,

Thanks for sharing your experience. It validates what I have started to believe about my own wt. gain--that it isn't the Provigil after all but is related to menopause. I guess the stimulants must have masked the weight gain of menopause and now that I am off them--BLOWUP! Coincidentally, I just got an email tonight from a friend who is in menopause and she says the wt. seems to be coming on like gangbusters for no apparent reason--and she, of course, is not on Provigil. I was especially interested to hear that your two years of dieting and exercising yielded virtually no results--that is certainly my experience so far. Isn't it frustrating?!!!! I would have been 10 lbs. underweight before if I had been eating and exercising like this! And now I find that this regimen is required just to restrict the extra poundage to 15, not 20, 30, or who knows???? I am really trying hard to counteract those insidious feelings of being unattractive and finding my body disgusting, but tonight I suddenly realized that my husband, who has always complimented my appearance frequently, had stopped doing so over these last few months--that made me really sad. I talked to him about it and he said that it was a function of my changing my hairstyle (to a very short somewhat spiky style I like a lot, very easy to maintain)--though I knew he didn't like my hair, I still couldn't help but have this nagging suspicion that he is less attracted to me because of the weight. And then all of this seems so ridiculous--intellectually I totally reject the notion that my value as a person or as a woman resides in my physical appearance, but the cultural brainwashing is pretty powerful. I will say I am proud of myself for not succumbing to the easy route of resuming a daily routine of stimulants just so I can be thin again. I really do appreciate tremendously the relatively normal feeling of Provigil-induced wakefulness. I have realized, though, that I have a tendency to short myself on sleep on Provigil--not that I can't sleep (that is one thing I can always do!), but that I don't want to--and it catches up with me.
Anyway, thanks very much for the support you offered in sharing your experience with those extra pounds.

Linda

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