Posted by Vincent_QC on December 4, 2008, at 7:50:40
In reply to Re: Any such thing as weight neutral mood stabilizer? » Tony P, posted by Racer on December 3, 2008, at 23:31:31
Well, by experience, I can say that Topamax (Topiramate) often help to loose some weight...So maybe ask for a little bit of it. It's an agent used to manage partial seizures for epilepsy...and they give it often for anxiety, social phobia... I always gain weight with every drugs that toutch the bains, especially antidepressants, anticonvulsives, antipsychotique, anxiolytics, name it...but Topamax is the only one who succed to let me loose some weight, but it was not a good drug choice to help with my cognitive problems...I had to stop because I was loosing my short-term memory...
Lamictal is also ok...some people gain weight, others loose weight...but be carefull with that one, especially when you begin this drug...I know someone who take more of the dose it had to take the first week and he endup at the hospital...
In other hands, you have to look at what you eat also...My own problem is that I can't stop eating when I uste a drug to help me with social phobia. I eat more sugar and fat and that's not good. I will have to do another strict diet soon (Liquid protein with tons of Vitamines, potassium and water), all of this because I gain more than 40 pounds on the Cipralex (take it from the end of august to the end of october on 20mg/day)...Now that i'm switch on Nardil, I feel the same, I can't stop eating. I also take the newer Seroquel XR version, 50 mg to help me to sleep at night, and that's another weight gain drug. That's a never endind circle. Some people complaint about the weight gain, others not... My experience teel you that if I gain weight, I loose a lot of self-esteem cause my apparence is very important ( I had a gastric by-pass to loose weight in the past)...and my social phobia problem is connected with my body image and the way I look...so a gain of weight as a side effect can't be accepted as a good choice of treatment...but now that I try everything in the market to help me, I have no choice and take the Nardil again and try to stop eating and doing a diet and some exercise...Long story sorry!!!
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