Dr B is a … ?

I’m still not impressed.

Next time I’m taking in my dinner plate. Who knows, maybe a visual presentation might convince this person that I’m not continually stuffing my face. Failing that, I could smash it over his head. The only thing that has stopped me smashing his face in so far is the fact that I’m not particularly keen on acquiring a criminal record.

First off, the spironolactone.  Not a good idea.  In fact so bad that even the long-suffering P asked me to stop taking it and go back on the prednisone, the mood swings were so bad.

But when I started taking both, things actually stabilised – for a while at least.  Long enough for me to have a somewhat ill-fated attempt at actually doing some regular exercise (which is something I haven’t been able to do for over 5 years!).  I did some (very) light weight training, so light that it was little more than 30 minutes targeted muscle movement twice a week, for a month.  Until I started getting mood swings again and my weight started sprinting upwards.   And then even my GP told me to lay off the exercise.

Surely that would indicate something was amiss?  There aren’t many circumstances where gentle exercise would have such a bad effect.  Even depression is supposed to improve with exercise, so why would anyone suggest that I am depressed?  That’s exactly what Dr B suggested – and then wondered why I vehemently disagreed.

I’m finding it very difficult to keep my temper under any semblance of control.

~ by me on 02 November 2007.