Acne Rosacea: Re: [rosacea] green tea appetite suppessant?

Thursday, December 07, 2006

Re: [rosacea] green tea appetite suppessant?

Hi Ellen,

I'd check the insert info on the Clonodine or ask the pharmacist if appetite suppression can be a side effect of that drug. I guess it could be the Green tea, but no one has mentioned it before and what you are describing isn't so much appetite suppression as a lack of interest in eating even if you are hungry. That happened to me ONE time in my life. I am a small woman and always weighed 98lbs. Even after 3 children. But sometime in my late 30's I started to gain weight and especially after my 4th child at 35. So my aunt was selling a "natural" product called Thermachrom. It was nutritional but also targeted weight loss especially the stomache, butt and thigh areas first. So I started taking it and indeed went from 130lbs. to 113lbs. and was almost my old weight and in my old clothes again. At the same time, however, I noticed I was getting very sick. Dizzy, nauseous and finally I was always throwing up. I had started a new thing.........going to the
chiropractor and he thought it was my body detoxing at first. Anyway, I suddenly did not want to eat...........even when hungry. I love plums and summer fruit but would just look at it and have to force myself to eat it knowing I HAD to eat something. Then I started to "hear" my heart in my ears at night and could not sleep.........very anxious. Finally my new chiropractor said to me, "Elena, can you bring me those pills you are taking and let me have a look at the ingredients." So I did and he said, "it's not that there is anything bad in here, but I think it is the Ma Huang that is making you sick." And he was right. I stopped taking it and was fine. And in the end, they had to take the ma huang out of the product because it was doing similar things to ALOT of people. That's the only time that happened to me so you could be right, it could be the green tea since people do use it as a weight loss thing. I suppose anythi ng that speeds up your metabolism can do
that to you (that is what ma huang does.......I guess it is like speed). I know that a lot of people can drink plain old green tea with no problem but when they take supplements that have green tea in them they get sick. It is really strange. How about your supplements? Have you added a new one that may have green tea in it? Just a thought. Good luck with it all.

Elena

ellen lafrancis <ellenlafrancis@yahoo.com> wrote:
I'm noticing a real lack of appetite these past couple of weeks. Actually lack of INTEREST in eating even when the tummy begins to growl. Anybody else notice this? I'm drinking more of the green tea and that and the clonidine are the only things I've added in the past few weeks. Is it possible that green tea is an appetite suppressant? I'm not guzzeling so much that I get full from drinking. I'm hypoglycemic and even when I begin to feel shaky I don't want to eat and have to push myself into eating a small amount of food every few hours (so I don't pass out). Really weird because I usually LOVE to eat even without being hungry. Could be onto something good here......

Funny story: I was having one of my frequent weird dreams the other night and the part I remember best is being on a cruise ship and noticing that people were going to some sort of class or seminar and coming back without wrinkles. I went to the seminar and they wanted me to put a bunch of gunk (different creams and such) on my face and in my dream I remember saying "I can't do that! I have Rosacea!". Jeeze! Even my subconcious is worried about my stupid skin! I gotta get a life!

Happy Wednesday (or Thursday for some of you?) guys! 'Night.... ellen

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