Benzo's as appetite stimulant's

[Rafterman]

Thank you, Slipmat and Chantilly for putting your stories out there. All of us who suffer from anxiety are familiar with appetite problems, but not many of the general public are. They don't take it seriously enough. They are all busy dieting! My wife has said to me, one million times, "I wish I had your problem". I tell her, "NO you do not. My problem could kill a person". To be fair, so can being overweight, but anyone who thinks it's a pleasure to have an absence of appetite needs to research the issue a bit. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.  A benzo will break down that wall when nothing else will. I would love to see the day when doc's will script for it as an appetite stimulant.

Thanks for the encouragement Rafterman, I appreciate it. Truth be told, i had no idea that this is a generalized issue, i thought it was specific to me.

So if i understood you correctly, it is through your 30 years of empirical experience that you found a link between benzos and apptite stimulation? And curreny, there is little/no research on this potentially life saving matter?

Hey Chantilly,
I always try to get the word out about how well benzo's work on simple anorexia and also about how common anorexia is. I think that doc's always worry about the legal implications of using anything off-label. And they just hate dispensing anything that is scheduled. They love to stick to non-scheduled and, if possible, even OTC. It's hard to blame them in a way. The prescribing doc's that I worked with (in a psychiatric group) paid $230,000 in malpractice insurance premium's every YEAR. They had clean records, and that was still how much it cost them. Those rates really are one of the things that contribute to the high cost of health care. Along with greedy doc's (some), an overbearing, over-reaching and overly cautious FDA, and, of course, Big Pharma. I can't blame doc's for wanting to protect themselves, but it's a shame that patient's pay the price for it. I think that it will be a long time until any start offering benzo's as an appetite stimulant, although I believe that just about every doctor knows perfectly well how effective they are for that.