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<blockquote data-quote="lmf64" data-source="post: 532107" data-attributes="member: 7736"><p>Okay, I am not a doctor and cannot offer medical advice, but my difficult child went from being a very slim, healthy young man to doubling his weight in one school year after starting Abilify. I know you said your son is not on any medications so that is not your problem, but the same solution may work. My son's psychiatrist decided that to get his weight under control he needed help and that we should treat it as a metabolic disorder. She started him on Metformin (used to treat diabetes) and it has helped him tremendously. Okay, so he grew about 8 inches since beginning it, but he has also lost about 50 pounds in the same amount of time. He's not skinny now, but is much healthier. Also, vitamin D needed to be added to his daily regime of medications. 1000 units a day. The endocronologist we saw insisted on it because he was slightly low.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lmf64, post: 532107, member: 7736"] Okay, I am not a doctor and cannot offer medical advice, but my difficult child went from being a very slim, healthy young man to doubling his weight in one school year after starting Abilify. I know you said your son is not on any medications so that is not your problem, but the same solution may work. My son's psychiatrist decided that to get his weight under control he needed help and that we should treat it as a metabolic disorder. She started him on Metformin (used to treat diabetes) and it has helped him tremendously. Okay, so he grew about 8 inches since beginning it, but he has also lost about 50 pounds in the same amount of time. He's not skinny now, but is much healthier. Also, vitamin D needed to be added to his daily regime of medications. 1000 units a day. The endocronologist we saw insisted on it because he was slightly low. [/QUOTE]
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