bipolar rider

[kenyonchris]

I haven't experienced weight gain due to bipolar meds, but I have with migraine preventative medicine. The good thing is that the medicine doesn't magically cause weight gain, it causes hunger or craving, which trigger overeating and weight gain.

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If you want to go the other way you might try Topamax. I am small to begin with, but when I had a migraine induced stroke three years ago they put me on Depakote, which made everything taste like sawdust...then switched me to Topamax. I lost fifteen pounds (putting me at 105), no real appetite.
Downside, lots and lots of tingling in the hands and feet (painful) and the "dopamax" effect of supression of the language center of the brain. I eventually adjusted to the side effects.

[abejita]

My neurologist called topomax a supermodel drug...makes you dumb and skinny, LOL!

I tried it for my migraines. It made me increadibly sleepy but I did loose weight on it.

[kenyonchris]

My neurologist called topomax a supermodel drug...makes you dumb and skinny, LOL!

I tried it for my migraines. It made me increadibly sleepy but I did loose weight on it.

Nice. Mine came up with the "dopamax" nickname. I had to take it at night or I was a zombie.