does cold water or a cold pack help, sorry for asking but i keep seeing different answers everywhere i look, i took my medication Amitriptyline that i had before for migraines, i feel like my head isn't as active as before the fall and that I'm on autopilot, i can still remember and recall things though
Ice packs and cold water have the purpose of reducing inflamation so that bloodflow isn't blocked. They reduce swelling. If you don't have swelling then an icepack probably wont help. Can also help after intensive sports but that's not something it sounds like you've been doing. You've asked a number of times here for advice about impact and worse, head impact. This is a support thread for people doing weight loss. I'm not being unfriendly here - you should seek help from qualified clinicians if you're worried.
Also, having dieted for a few weeks and achieved your desired weight is in all probability not a good thing. It suggests rapid starvation approach. And possibly unrealistic ideas about what your weight should be (i.e. anorexia).
I'm horrified seeing so many doctors providing prescriptions despite these known side affects and additional medical issues. Even more pissed at my mother because she also worked in healthcare for over a decade and knows how to look up drug interactions. Today is the first time I've seen here in a week and she's gained a ton of water weight that I can't easily tell the cause of. I'm trying to get her to set up an appointment to visit her primary so we can find out the cause, but she's absolutely refusing to come off these drugs. I'm worried there may be an addictive side effect/component that isn't well known yet and I'm praying it's just stubbornness.
Sorry to hear about your mother. I don't know that the drug is addictive (have heard nothing about that, at least) but I imagine the return of hunger pangs is a disincentive to come off if. Is she Type-2 Diabetes? That was its original intention but it seems to be used by many as a general weight-loss drug now.
Just anecdotal, but I'm hearing the side effects from friends and family and I don't think shitting or starving to death from being unable to eat is healthy. I'm not sure it's easy to find research papers that will give you the full scale of issues or that consumers will really hear about the true benefits or damage that it causes until 5 years from now IF we're lucky. I would be skeptical and cautious about taking it if you have medical issues beyond just weight and joints that could be triggering the weight gain such as heart, kidney, or hormonal stuff.
Like yourself, I feel the human body is so complex that doing anything on this scale - both in its effect and in how many people are suddenly going on it - is reckless. One's appetite is a fundamental bodily sense. And over-eating isn't necessarily a response to physical hunger either, it's often done for psychological reasons, comfort-eating or the "pleasure" of a sugar high. So far as I know the mechanism is that it both hinders your ability to produce sugar and slows down the speed of digestion. It also, according to wikipedia, possibly encourages the growth of pancreatic cells which is actually pretty cool if so as isn't that reversing diabetes?
Maybe it's fine - I don't know. But I wouldn't imagine it's a good thing for active people who actually need to eat and might inadvertently be under-nourished through taking it. Not all food consumption is about calories. But what do I know? The problem is there is so much money to be made I just can't trust anyone else to reliably inform me. We saw with the Covid vaccines just how corrupt the medical oversight bodies are.
EDIT: Case in point about how much money is tied up in this drug:
EDIT EDIT: Amended my post slightly for accuracy as I had Ozempic slightly confused with Tirzepatide, which is similar in some ways but a different drug.
