I have been having an issue lately with food. It's not that I don't want to eat or some sort of eating disorder has taken hold. It is more that the cocktail of medication (Wellbutrin, Lamictal and Prozac) I take has a side effect of suppressing my appetite to the point that I actually forget to eat sometimes for a couple of days at a time.
I am also having some distortions in my field of vision. They are kind of hard to explain, but it is like seeing something out of the corner of your eye. On plain colored walls I have seen rainbows and multiple different colors and sometimes random patterns. A couple of times I could have sworn there was someone right beside me at my desk. Seeing little dots or translucent donuts zigzagging around my field of vision. I have had my computer screen changes colors and various shades of said colors. Random bursts of light, orbs and etc as well.
This is all well and good but what do these have in common or anything to do with the disorder? Well, when I saw my pdoc last week I was actually having a hard time looking at her because there was this big splatch of light right behind her. I told her this and she suggested that I get in to see an Optometrist to rule out any issues with my eyes. I will be getting to this after xmas when I will hopefully land a pretty sweet temp placement. Plus, when you know that I haven't seen an Optometrist in eight years, it is sort of time to get my eyes checked anyway.
Ok? So what does have to do with food? My fiancee suggested that because I tend to eat very little that these visual issues could be because of the lack of fuel my body has to share. I started my medication in June of 2013 and since then I think I m down 15 - 20 lbs. The way I dropped that weight is not the healthy way by any means.
So now I am going to try to make more of an effort to eat, even when I don't feel the least it hungry. Which like I said above could be from my medications. Make sure I constantly have snacks and beverages around always try to have breakfast, lunch and dinner. I see my doctor again on January 18th and I hope to be able to tell her that my visual issues are gone.
I will keep you posted.
I am also having some distortions in my field of vision. They are kind of hard to explain, but it is like seeing something out of the corner of your eye. On plain colored walls I have seen rainbows and multiple different colors and sometimes random patterns. A couple of times I could have sworn there was someone right beside me at my desk. Seeing little dots or translucent donuts zigzagging around my field of vision. I have had my computer screen changes colors and various shades of said colors. Random bursts of light, orbs and etc as well.
This is all well and good but what do these have in common or anything to do with the disorder? Well, when I saw my pdoc last week I was actually having a hard time looking at her because there was this big splatch of light right behind her. I told her this and she suggested that I get in to see an Optometrist to rule out any issues with my eyes. I will be getting to this after xmas when I will hopefully land a pretty sweet temp placement. Plus, when you know that I haven't seen an Optometrist in eight years, it is sort of time to get my eyes checked anyway.
Ok? So what does have to do with food? My fiancee suggested that because I tend to eat very little that these visual issues could be because of the lack of fuel my body has to share. I started my medication in June of 2013 and since then I think I m down 15 - 20 lbs. The way I dropped that weight is not the healthy way by any means.
So now I am going to try to make more of an effort to eat, even when I don't feel the least it hungry. Which like I said above could be from my medications. Make sure I constantly have snacks and beverages around always try to have breakfast, lunch and dinner. I see my doctor again on January 18th and I hope to be able to tell her that my visual issues are gone.
I will keep you posted.
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