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Topic of today's conversation: " Effect of reception medicines for weight gain" Can reception medicines influence the appearance of excess weight? How serious is this and what medications should be taken with caution to avoid getting worse? Let's discuss.
This happened and you began to notice that you were gaining weight, although you were leading the same lifestyle. Usually, first of all, doctors advise checking hormone tests. But if you have been sick or are sick and are taking medications, then you may want to think about the effect of certain medications on weight gain.
Many diseases leading to impairment metabolic processes, influence the recruitment extra pounds. Yes, welcome antihistamines increases appetite, antidepressants slow down metabolism. For example, diseases thyroid gland directly depend on hormonal levels. As soon as everything is brought back to normal and the disease recedes, the weight will return to normal.
True weight gain can be considered not by taking any medications, but by their effect on the general condition of a person. Many medications, while improving general condition, lead to increased appetite and better absorption of food. Without changing your diet or calorie intake, you can easily gain weight. Other drugs, on the contrary, calm and make a person inhibited. Hence, at low physical activity And normal diet It's also easy to gain weight. Various medications may not directly affect weight gain, but some may increase appetite, while others may slow down metabolism.
Some medications used:
♦ It must be remembered that recovery from illness leads to natural weight gain. As an example, the transition from a bland diet to healthy eating. Taking enzymes improves the absorption and digestibility of food. Medicines that reduce the production of thyroid hormones lead to improved functioning of the entire body and gastrointestinal tract in particular.
♦ Antiulcer drugs and mild antidepressants act differently on each patient. Some gain weight, others lose weight. It all depends on the type and symptoms of the disease.
♦ Hormonal contraceptives and hormone-correcting drugs usually do not affect weight gain if they are chosen correctly. You can gain significant weight only from drugs that affect egg ovulation.
♦ Nonsteroidal drugs(indomethacin and diclofenac) as well as hormonal drugs retain fluid in the body. But with adjustments to your diet, salt regimen and physical activity, this can usually be easily dealt with.
♦ Antihistamines (anti-allergic) and sleeping pills have a calming effect on humans. A lethargic, drowsy state leads to a decrease motor activity. With the usual volume and calorie intake, weight inevitably increases.
During treatment, questions often arise: how to take pills correctly and whether they affect metabolism, specifically weight gain.
I suggest you get acquainted with the answer of cardiologist E.I. Kurbatova to the question of whether it is possible to dial overweight, if we accept:
“Today there are seven main classes. Some of them do not affect weight at all, others even contribute to weight loss. But sometimes body weight from antihypertensive tablets may still increase.
Medicines such as amlodipine and nifedipine can cause water retention in the body. One in 10 to 20 patients taking these medications will experience swelling in their legs. They disappear after changing the medicine.
You can also get better with regular and long-term use beta blockers - for example, atenolol.It is believed that if these products are used for a year, body weight increases on average by 1–4 kg. Therefore, if this particular group of medications is recommended to you, try to follow a stricter diet.”.
Most people with hypertension take medications constantly. But significant help from these drugs is possible only in combination, when a diet is followed with a decrease in the amount of table salt, fats and sweets. Smoking and excess alcohol should definitely be given up.
Analyze your condition - keep diaries of medications taken, blood pressure, weight and write down everything you eat, buy a pedometer and monitor the number of steps taken. This visibility will help you be objective. You will be able to correct your behavior yourself. If you do everything correctly, such a health diary will help the doctor choose adequate treatment for you that does not affect weight gain, both for hypertension and other diseases.
(!) I repeat, you can significantly gain weight by storing fat in the body by taking:
Usually, a good doctor, when prescribing these drugs, warns the patient about possible weight gain and tells him how to minimize this problem.
We all want to lose weight quickly and easily. But some people succeed without difficulty, while others sweat in the gym for years, exhaust themselves with diets, and at the same time lose little weight. If both spouses, husband and wife, lose weight, men usually get in shape faster, leaving the woman upset.
Why does this happen, what does weight loss and weight gain depend on? First of all, the main cause of excess weight is hormones, or rather, metabolic disorders and hormonal balance body. That is, your first action in losing weight is a trip to the endocrinologist.
Science knows many factors that influence excess weight. Of course, these include inactivity and overeating , and stress, heredity plays an important role, but many of the body hormones responsible for metabolism play a significant role.
If you understand the mechanisms of action of these hormones, you can significantly reduce the likelihood of developing obesity in your body.
Many people believe that excess weight occurs due to the fact that we get food nutrients and more energy than is able to absorb and expend, and this is true. In addition, many people think that to get rid of excess fat you just need to eat less and spend more, and then you will begin to lose weight very quickly - but this is only partly true.
The body is a zealous owner; if once it was shown how much it can eat, it will remember it forever. If then he is deliberately deprived of food, he will, by hook or by crook, “fill his bins,” since a decrease in food intake is stress for the body: difficult times have come, the owner is starving him, which means he needs to make nest eggs for a rainy day .
He tries in every possible way to restore himself to a state of blissful peace and abundance (even in excess) of nutrition. Therefore, you eat less, and the weight stays or even increases. This program is carried out by hormones, guardians of the well-being of every body cell, including fat cells.
Hormones begin to increase your appetite, slow down your body's metabolism, storing fats in reserve, which allows them to return your weight to its previous point despite your efforts.
A woman’s figure is significantly different from a man’s, this is due to female hormones and female-type fat deposition. Basically, the chest, buttocks, legs and stomach become fuller, arms and face to a lesser extent. Nature intended this for carrying a baby; it stores subcutaneous fat to soften shocks and expend energy on the formation of breast milk.
The whole truth about excess weight from hormones
Highest value female hormones have in critical periods– when the body enters the stage of puberty, then excess nutrition is immediately deposited in typically female areas, thanks to estrogens. In addition, the body will consolidate such a program for gaining weight and body type, and will strive for it at all periods of a woman’s life.
Estrogens have the greatest effect already at age after forty , especially if you like sweet and fatty fried foods. Then the body prepares for menopause , and it stores strength in the form of fat. Fat women They endure menopause more easily than their thin friends, so the body strives for fullness.
One of the main “fatty” hormones is rightfully leptin. This hormone responds to the fat content of cells, and if the amount of fat decreases, low level leptin dramatically increases your appetite and metabolism. If there is a lot of fat in the cells, an increase in the concentration of leptin in the blood tells the brain - “stop eating!”
Leptin is an excellent appetite regulator healthy people, but sometimes our brain becomes deaf, its receptors are clogged with other substances, and it does not hear the increase in leptin levels. Then morbid obesity is formed.
Another hormone that plays an important role in fat metabolism, is insulin produced by the pancreas. Due to this, fat accumulates in all places. It inhibits the activity of fat-digesting enzymes, helps transform excess sugar into fat and its deposition in cells. When consuming sweets, the insulin level increases sharply, which means the transformation of sweets into extra pounds on your sides.
Play a significant role in fat metabolism thyroid hormones(produced by the thyroid gland), they are activators of fat breakdown. When they are deficient, hypothyroidism occurs - a disease in which fat deposition increases, people gain weight greatly and unevenly. But with hyperthyroidism, or Graves' disease, on the contrary, severe weight loss occurs.
Growth hormone promotes weight loss somatotropin, it activates the release of fats by cells and their breakdown. Another fat burning hormone is considered testosterone– with its deficiency, men gain weight, lose muscle strength and lose virility.
People themselves are largely to blame for this: they test the strength of their metabolic systems by consuming too much fatty foods, and when the regulatory systems wear out and refuse to work, an avalanche-like disease occurs - obesity.
People with problems in insulin metabolism and leptin levels need to lose weight very slowly, combining a low-calorie diet with moderate (but not exhausting) exercise. In this way, you will convince the body that it is not worth storing fats for future use, since you need them now.
In other words, it is worth accepting the concept: “I will always eat like this now, and always train,” - then the body will slowly but surely begin to part with its fats. Over the years, the level of insulin receptors decreases, and from year to year you need to teach yourself to eat less.
In general, of course, hormones significantly influence metabolism and fat storage, but your figure ultimately depends on your behavior. If you don't overeat, there will be nothing to store in reserve, even with the help of hormones.
Alena PARETSKAYA
Hormonal therapy (contraceptives or curative therapy) is always fraught with weight gain. Avoid problems with overweight Following a few rules will help.
Why do hormones make you feel better?
A couple of decades ago, hormonal contraceptives led to excess weight in almost all women. The reason for this is the “horse” doses of hormones that the first generation pills contained. Modern pharmaceuticals have stepped far forward and modern contraceptive pills contain a minimal amount of hormones. Nevertheless, complaints about problems with the figure have not become much less. One of the reasons for this is the independent choice of contraceptives. Remember: women's hormonal system It is extremely subtle and experiments on it can be very expensive. Be sure to consult your doctor!
The second reason for weight gain when taking hormonal drugs is quite objective: it most directly affects metabolic processes and work endocrine system, hormonal pills increase the feeling of hunger. Not knowing about this property of hormonal contraceptives, women are unable to consciously resist the active production of the hunger hormone ghrelin in their bodies. Increased appetite is explained by the most for various reasons, and the result becomes predictable.
What to do? Having received a doctor's prescription to take hormonal medications, be sure to rebuild your nutrition system. Eat food 5-6 times a day, but in very small portions. This diet will “slow down” the production of grenaline and protect your figure from gaining extra pounds.
Keep your vitamin and mineral balance under control
Another negative property of hormonal drugs is the ability to increase the consumption and removal of vitamins and minerals from the body. This factor very much depends on the age, weight of the woman, her physical activity, general condition health. Deficiencies of vitamins and minerals can cause a feeling of “wanting something” and provoke extraordinary meals. Your doctor may recommend a diet high in vitamin C, calcium, zinc, iron, chromium, folic acid, selenium, vitamin E or prescribe medications containing them.
What foods are incompatible with hormonal therapy?
Due to the decrease in the body's ability to process under the influence of hormones simple sugars, you need to practically eliminate foods with high glycemic index. These are any products made from white flour, sugar, beer. Eating potatoes, white refined rice, fatty meat, sausages, sausages, cheeses, carbonated drinks and products with artificial additives (preservatives, dyes, flavor enhancers) should also be minimized. After all, hormones increase the body’s sensitivity to any unnatural products. And what might previously have gone unnoticed can result in a problem while taking hormonal medications.
Drink more water
Often women, fearing the accumulation of fluid in the cells of their bodies, reduce the amount of water they drink during the day. This should not be done under any circumstances: sensing a lack of moisture, the human body gives the command to create its reserves. A paradoxical situation arises: fluid in the cells accumulates not due to excess, but due to its deficiency. Drink at least 1.5-2 liters of water per day (30 ml per 1 kg of weight).
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Many representatives of the fair sex, whose choice fell on this method of preventing unwanted pregnancy like oral contraceptives (OC), before starting to take the pills they worry that it may negatively affect their figure. Almost every woman, when prescribed hormonal contraceptives, asks her doctor whether birth control pills make her fat. And their experiences are supported by the stubbornly persistent myth that taking hormonal contraceptives is certainly complicated by weight gain.
Reading reviews about OK on the Internet, you can identify a number of pressing questions: “Am I getting fat from birth control pills?”, “I got fat from birth control pills and stopped taking them...”, “Which birth control pills make you gain weight?” As a rule, those with new kilograms are in a hurry to attribute the weight gain to drugs oral contraception, but this is not at all true because modern hormonal contraceptives contain a much smaller dose of hormones that affect weight gain.
Which birth control pills make you fat? It is impossible to answer this question unequivocally, since each woman’s body is individual. Apart from a weight gain of 2-3 kilograms, then a properly selected OK drug will not cause obesity and will not spoil the waist and hips.
Such questions arose from the fact that previously OCs were used, which included large number estrogen (it is this hormone that causes weight gain). Modern drugs contain almost half the amount of this hormone: if the first contraceptives contained about 50 mcg of estrogen, modern drugs contain about 30 mcg, and low-dose ones - 20-15 mcg. It is for this reason that modern OK can be used without fear of losing a slim figure.
Is it possible to get fat from the new generation of contraceptives? Significant weight gain can only occur if a particular drug is selected incorrectly. Only some women gain weight from birth control pills in the first months of taking them (by about 2-3 kg), but this gain is reversible, because after a few months of taking them the weight will stabilize.
When starting to take OK, a woman may notice some changes in her usual way of life:
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Long-term clinical trials Other OCs have shown that drugs containing 20 mcg of estrogen do not provoke weight gain, and tablets containing 30 mcg of estrogen only maintain existing weight.
In some cases, women may be prescribed those birth control pills, from which many people gain weight. These drugs contain about 50 mcg of estrogen.
If earlier every second woman gained weight while taking high-dose OCs, now these outdated drugs are prescribed extremely rarely. The average (up to 30 mcg) and low (up to 20 mcg) dose of estrogen contained in modern contraceptives does not affect body weight in any way in 99% of women. This effect is especially pronounced in monocomponent OCs, which contain only a progesterone analogue (unfortunately, these drugs are not suitable for everyone).
In some cases, when women are too thin, they want to find out if there are birth control pills to gain weight. Such a desire is generated, as mentioned above, by the established myth that taking OCs will certainly lead to weight gain. Let us emphasize again - application modern drugs almost completely eliminates such illusory hope. Any doctor will answer the question: “Do people gain weight on purpose from birth control pills?” - the answer will be negative.
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Drugs with a high content of estrogen-like substances (for example, Anteovin, Ovidon) are prescribed only therapeutic indications and are used extremely rarely in the practice of a modern gynecologist; in addition to weight gain, they have a number of very negative side effects. OCs with an average estrogen content (Regulon, Silest, Janine, Diane-35 Chloe, Microgenon, etc.) can cause weight gain only against the background of a deliberate desire to gain weight, they can also “maintain weight” within the limits in which it was initially (at the time of the start of data reception OK). In other cases, weight gain can only be observed by those women for whom one or another drug was incorrectly selected to protect against unwanted pregnancy or treat a gynecological disease.
Gynecologists and endocrinologists recommend that women not torment themselves with questions about whether it is possible to gain weight from contraceptives. Follow all doctor's recommendations when prescribing hormonal OCs. A competent doctor will definitely warn his patient about possible emergence those symptoms that indicate possible error in drug selection. If they are detected, you should consult a doctor to find out the cause of the occurrence of certain side effects and decide whether to cancel or replace the OC with another drug.
Many women are sure that if they start taking hormonal pills, they will immediately have to buy clothes for their growth. What is the reason for this misconception, and why do some people get better from hormones? What is special about the popular drugs Jess, Yarina and Nuvaring? And if you do gain weight, how to lose weight?
Almost always, women who decide to protect themselves from unwanted pregnancy using hormonal drugs are interested in whether it is possible not to gain weight from taking Jess or Nuvaring. They often ask their friends for advice, and when they hear “no,” they try to refuse the doctor’s appointment. And very much in vain.
Surely you know that hormonal pills are prescribed not only as oral contraceptives(OK), but also for the treatment of certain diseases and inflammations. Doctors are surprised and assure patients that even if your friend recovered “thanks” to the pills, this does not mean that the same fate awaits you. Do you get better from taking hormones?
Have you started taking birth control and are dreading the day when all your clothes are too small? Are you afraid of getting fat? Then you need to learn about how not to gain weight from hormones.
Remember a few rules:
All these recommendations apply only to drugs for the treatment of thyroid diseases and tablets intended to control pregnancy. If the doctor has prescribed a high-dose drug, then you need to put off the fight against excess weight and take care of your health. For example, when using Prednisolone, you should not limit yourself in food.
There are many representatives of the fair sex who claim that they inevitably get better from hormonal contraceptives. Among the reasons they highlight:
If you start taking the drug, but notice a deterioration in your health or rapid weight gain, contact your doctor immediately. This drug is not suitable for you, and the doctor’s task will be to choose another hormonal contraceptive option. Perhaps more gentle and safe in your case.
Experts note that ladies who take hormonal birth control pills long period time, they can actually gain excess weight. This is due to the following factors:
If you eat right, you lead active image life, and your weight still continues to increase, then you need to contact an endocrinologist. Most likely, your problem is related to decreased thyroid function.
Experts say that if your friend has gained weight on hormonal pills, then you first need to find out the cause of this phenomenon. When prescribing a drug, the doctor takes into account not only the concentration necessary substances, but also the phenotype of a woman.
Curvy ladies with a predominance of estrogen in the body. Due to their constitutional and biological characteristics, fat is deposited according to the female type - on the buttocks and thighs. To avoid weight gain, they are prescribed tablets with an enhanced gestagen component. But this, of course, is not enough. It is very important that a woman controls her appetite and watches what she puts on her plate. It is important to say that all these measures are necessary not so that ladies with curves do not gain weight from taking OK, but because such women are generally prone to being overweight. They are usually prescribed the hormones Logest or Lindinet.
With a balanced phenotype fat deposits are distributed evenly throughout the body. Such women have medium mammary glands, normal type skin. As a rule, they do not suffer from PMS. Doctors prescribe Marvelon, Nuvaring or Lindinet-30 for them.
There is also a third phenotype - androgen predominance. Representatives of the fair sex with a predominance of gestagens are endowed with tall stature, underdeveloped mammary glands, oily skin and hair. These women were “lucky” to feel depressed in the run-up to their period, painful sensations lower abdomen. In this case, specialists prescribe hormonal drugs with a high dosage of antiandrogenic components. These include: Janine, Diane, Yarina and Jess.
We offer you a video in which a specialist will tell you in detail about hormonal contraceptives. He will also answer the question of why people gain weight from hormones.
If you sadly notice that your favorite dress is too tight at the waist or hips (that is, you are one of those exceptional people who gain weight from taking hormones), do not rush to buy a shapeless hoodie several sizes larger. By following a few tips, you will learn how to lose weight, and your weight will gradually return to normal:
If you want to get rid of excess fluid, stop using caffeine-containing products. They retain water.
