Posted by starlight on June 7, 2004, at 11:39:13
In reply to I'm gonna get FAT on lithium aren't I?, posted by jerrympls on June 2, 2004, at 21:59:30
I'm a recovered eating disorder person. When my Pdoc tried to perscribe me lithium and depakote. , I said 'absolutely not to lithium' to start with and told him why, which he wasn't very sympathetic to. And I tried Depakote for about two weeks, started gaining weight and generally felt like my body was polluted so I stopped. Next appt I came in loaded with research and he couldn't argue with the current research that recommends newer anticonvulsants. A lot of old Pdocs want to keep people on the older drugs (watch out for HMO docs since they're supposed to go with cheap formulary drugs) but I was so well armed with information about Trileptal, Lamictal and Topomax that he surrendered and wrote the scrip for Trileptal. Later we added Lamictal which I like even better. So if you're feeling the negative side effects like weight gain - which to me is a great way to keep a woman depressed Isn't it Topomax that can counter the weight gain?
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