TODAY: Medication and Weight Gain

Campbell Brown speaks with Madelyn Fernstrom about medications that cause weight gain.

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TODAY: Medication and Weight Gain
Campbell Brown speaks with Madelyn Fernstrom about medications that cause weight gain.

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  1. hiren
    (October 11, 2009 10:50 AM)

    i have digetion problem, i can not digest milk is red wine can solve may problem?
    and want to gain weight faster what to do for that

  2. linda logan
    (June 25, 2009 11:19 AM)

    i'm recently got a new dr and doing well with him as i know he is doing alot to get my confidence back for me your health issues on the pc has me interested because there are issues that i am experiancing

  3. linda logan
    (June 25, 2009 11:16 AM)

    my grandma was in the 200 lbs mark when she died , but what bugs me is that I'm 5 ' 2 and my pounds are in the 248 side of me for my height i should be 135-140 pounds 140 puts me 5 pounds over which is ok but since i've had 1 child i was still 135 lbs how do i get back to atleast 140 i got married 5 months after i had my child low energy has been a definate problem since i'm 67 years old my weight has been over the 350 at one year over the 11 years that i was married with increasing stress i gained weight cause i was eating the foods that were a comfort for this stress my family was the start of it, peers can often do this to children, but this went from 1962 to 1972 when there was a bad situation in the late summer time the dr prescribed pills that were addictive and caused me to go over board with them not intentionally or knowing why this happened , but i got rid of this marriage because it was very bad for me and my child this ended in june 30th,1973 i moved away from the area to where i am now unknowing what was the cause of back aches i searched through alot of the drs who refused to tell me nothing,some even refused to exray my spine which i went for years but final issues did find out my mom had her dr tell her stuff about me and not my dr telling me the truth, it left me in a bad disposition of frustration the drs were claiming i was mentally insane , i was disnosed as someone who didnt know an apple from a pear. i remarried on 1977 december bad suggestion to do. i worked even tho my health was going down fast the pain was getting worse every year. 1980 was the date that i removed that marriage then in 1990 i had a bit of pressures with the 1st ex hubby that personal problems was bad it caused my daughter and i to not speaking , the stress was getting to me badly how do i get back to even 140 pounds do you have a diet sheet like all the breakfasts /dinners/suppers that i can go by to see if i can lose the weight.

  4. Cynthia
    (December 29, 2008 03:31 PM)

    I am having heart palpitations and I have thyroid problems. I am on Armour and hydrocortisone for low adrenal function. I can't seem to get an answer about the heart palpitations.

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