When you are convinced it is the pills making you fat....

goes on not got on.

Thank you Sara . No I won't just stop taking them. I was just wondering if that's what you did and how you felt. I may ask my GP if I can reduce the dose as time got on.

Katyk
I wouldn’t advise you come off them without seeking medical advice, I felt quite awful for a couple of weeks, am fine now, but I had been taking them for a long time

I have hyperthyroidism and I lost quite a bit of weight. I am a bit underweight anyway, so couldn’t really afford to lose any. I was put on Carbimazole for 18 months, and made up the lost weight (though still a bit below average) as well as improving in general health. I stopped taking it at the end of January and so far my hyperthyroidism hasn’t returned - how long was it before your brother relapsed, shysal? I need another test. I am so hoping I don’t relapse. It was nasty.

I would suggest looking at the way of eating set out in the How Not to Die book by Dr Michael Greger. It is about "the foods scientifically proven to prevent and reverse disease" and contains almost 200 pages of Notes citing the scientific research he draws on at the back of the book. So, it's not some flaky, faddy diet idea.

He advocates eating a "Daily Dozen" to incorporate the food he considers essential to the optimal diet. This blows the current 5 a day out of the water, and means that you are so full and satisfied from all the healthy stuff you have to eat that you have neither room nor inclination for processed junk!

There's a lot of info about it online, and talks by Michael Greger on You Tube. He donates all profits to charity - and interestingly for GransNetters was inspired to go into medicine by the remarkable recovery of his grandmother who had been sent home to die by conventional doctors, in her sixties. She sought treatment from Nathan Pritikin, an early lifestyle medicine pioneer, and lived to be 96.

Sara65 I have just been put on Propranolol for anxiety. I am on a high dose and was thinking about trying to wean myself off them. I was told it is dangerous to just stop taking them. Did you wean yourself off? With apologies to Alima for hijacking the thread.

I took propranolol for 15 years for migraine control, and was totally convinced they were making me fat! Stopped taking them just before Christmas, haven’t lost a pound! Just me being greedy then I suppose!

Nobody warned me, but when I was on Carbimazole I put on 3 stone! However, when I stopped taking it about 2 years later, I managed to lose all the extra weight easily by alternate day fasting.
I hope you will soon be free from the medication and that your thyroid has returned to normal. Mine stayed normal but sadly my brother has had a recurrence. He is a naturally skinny person so has only gained a few pounds.

I now have a similar battle due to steroid medication but find my willpower sadly lacking this time!