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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 48379" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>Let me ask...does your daughter have a weight problem to begin with? </p><p></p><p>One of my biggest issues in dealing with my bipolar is the weight gain potential of the medications. I am already morbidly obese and I have degenerative joint disease so putting any more weight on my worn out body just isnt good for me. I am staunch in my position that I will not take anything that has much of a chance to do that to me. </p><p></p><p>I run from the antipsychotics like the plague. I have taken low dose seroquel at times but I am loath to do it. My treatment of choice is lamictal and topamax. The lamictal helps me with the depressive end and the topamax helps me with several issues: weight, mania, and nerve pain. Unfortunately it isnt as effective with the weight anymore since they took me off it and restarted it but it still helps with the mania and the nerve pain so Im still on it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 48379, member: 1514"] Let me ask...does your daughter have a weight problem to begin with? One of my biggest issues in dealing with my bipolar is the weight gain potential of the medications. I am already morbidly obese and I have degenerative joint disease so putting any more weight on my worn out body just isnt good for me. I am staunch in my position that I will not take anything that has much of a chance to do that to me. I run from the antipsychotics like the plague. I have taken low dose seroquel at times but I am loath to do it. My treatment of choice is lamictal and topamax. The lamictal helps me with the depressive end and the topamax helps me with several issues: weight, mania, and nerve pain. Unfortunately it isnt as effective with the weight anymore since they took me off it and restarted it but it still helps with the mania and the nerve pain so Im still on it. [/QUOTE]
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