Cake or death?

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This isn't so much an AIBU as a WWYD but I really want to see the poll results.

So, I'm morbidly obsese and have been for many years. I finally got to the underlying condition, sleep apnea, and following treatment my weight started going down, Every week for 2 years it went down. I lost 5 stone and was not far off being out of the morbidly obeses zone.

Then something changed and I was eating all the time again. I just couldn't control it and my weight started going up again. I felt like utter shit. Towards the end of last year I realised the change coincided with me starting treatment for high blood pressure. Turns out blood pressure medicine can cause rapid weight gain. So I stopped taking it and quickly went back to losing weight again

But of course my blood pressure went up again. So a couple of weeks ago my doctor prescripted another medicine which apparantly doesn't cause that overwelming hunger feeling. Two weeks in and it's starting again. The 'hunger' is increasing and I'm finding it harder and harder to control what I eat.

So I'm in the position that I either take the cake (medicine) and my weight goes up. So I'll start to lose mobility again, and my mental health will fall apart. Or I stop taking it and risk death (heart attack, stroke) but hopefully this will lead to continued weight loss and eventually not having a problem with high blood pressure. My doctor is very much about dealing with the immediate problem, the high blood pressure, and doesn't seem particularly interested in the impact that has on my life.

So what would you do?

Cake (take the meds) - AIBU
Death (don't take the meds) - YANBU

Thanks for everyone's input, it has been really helpful. I've read all your replies and am still on the meds.

DH has been doing some research for me. He's not a medic but he is a doctor (of chemistry) which has also been really helpful. He says the research says the medicine I'm on has rapid weight gain as a short term side effect but long term it actually leads to weight loss. But he couldn't really specify what they meant by 'short term'.

He also found out that this medicine can be stopped without the extremely dangerous 'rebound' effect that other blood pressure meds have. There are also differences in the timings of when theraputic effects and side effects kick in, and when they disappear once the meds are stopped. So with careful monitoring they could be stopped and restarted over and over to get the benefits but not the side effects. He doesn't think a GP will know this but a specialist will. So those who recommended seeking this out are absolutely right and I'll chase the referral to the obesity clinic,

With all that said, the last couple of days have been great. That 'hunger' hasn't been there and I've been able to eat properly again. I even managed to lose a pound at today's weigh in. So I've now got everything crossed and hoping that the 'short term' I mentioned above means really, really short term and I'm now over that hump. Watch this space ...