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    Being Overweight and Standard Doses of Meds and Supplements

    I was thinking about this the other day when I was taking an allergy pill for some poison ivy and wondering if it isn't strong enough? Does our extra weight make the average dose ineffective? Do you think that because we have so much weight to lose that doses for the average person are not strong enough? I also wonder if the average person's dose on vitamins is strong enough for us too? Should we double it since we can sometimes be double the size of the average person who was measured for these pre-prescribed doses on meds and supplements?

    What do you think?
    ~Kat
    F, 45, 5'7"



    A year from now you'll wish you had started today
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    Re: Being Overweight and Standard Doses of Meds and Supplements

    That's a good question! I tried looking it up but couldn't find anything. I'd be curious to know the answer to that too
    F/29/5'2
    HW262/SW195/CW189/GW135
    Did Atkins back in 2005 and went from 262 to 182!
    Starting Nov 4th 2009 again at 195
    First mini-goal: 187 by thanksgiving
    Second mini-goal: 181 by Xmas trip to see in-laws in LA, size 14's!



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      Re: Being Overweight and Standard Doses of Meds and Supplements

      most meds are prescribed based on weight when they figure out your dose in the hospital. Ask your doc if you need more or not. some stuff the extra fat storage cells don't use nor need so it wouldn't matter.
      by the book atkinseer

      started 6/1/02 at 313
      goalie 5/04 at 167 with under 15% body fat ADBB Presidents exercise Challenge


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        Re: Being Overweight and Standard Doses of Meds and Supplements

        What about OTC meds? What do you think?
        ~Kat
        F, 45, 5'7"



        A year from now you'll wish you had started today

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          Re: Being Overweight and Standard Doses of Meds and Supplements

          The only Dr. that ever said that my wieght effected the amount of a drug to give me was the fertility specialist. She said when you got to 300 they had no idea how much of injectable fertility drugs to give you, so they just stopped treating at that weight. She also said I had no chance of having a baby and sited all these statistics about over weight women having higher risks of this and that. Well I got pregnant that very next month and now have a beautiful 2 1/2 y/o daughter. So I didn't put much into what she had to say. I did write her a nice letter telling how wrong she was, and if her and her husband were so all about research and developement why didn't they research and develope a treatment for large women instead of just not treating them at all. I think I also called her a fat phobic Dr. LOL Sorry but her whole speach just pithed me off.
          Cheryl
          Starting over again
          SW334/CW310/GW185

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