Can Medicine Make You Fat?
WebMD Feature from "Health"By Jennifer Acosta Scott
In a word, yes. Heres what to do when the drugs you need also put on the pounds.
When you start putting on weight, you look to the usual suspects: the dusty treadmill or that stash of chocolate in your desk drawer.
But for 30-year-old Chelley Thelen, the culprit sat in her medicine cabinet. In six years, Thelen gained 60 pounds from taking prednisone, a steroid used to treat her arthritis.
Thelen is just one of a growing number of women who can blame their excess pounds on the drugs theyre taking for everything from allergies to migraines. The chances of finding yourself on a drug that can lead to weight gain have more than doubled in the last 20 years.
Full text: http://women.webmd.com/features/can-medicine-make-you-fat?ecd=wnl_wmh_111007
WebMD Feature from "Health"By Jennifer Acosta Scott
In a word, yes. Heres what to do when the drugs you need also put on the pounds.
When you start putting on weight, you look to the usual suspects: the dusty treadmill or that stash of chocolate in your desk drawer.
But for 30-year-old Chelley Thelen, the culprit sat in her medicine cabinet. In six years, Thelen gained 60 pounds from taking prednisone, a steroid used to treat her arthritis.
Thelen is just one of a growing number of women who can blame their excess pounds on the drugs theyre taking for everything from allergies to migraines. The chances of finding yourself on a drug that can lead to weight gain have more than doubled in the last 20 years.
Full text: http://women.webmd.com/features/can-medicine-make-you-fat?ecd=wnl_wmh_111007
