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Weight Gain and Depakote

Sun, 02/06/2005 - 09:20

Topic: Teen Zone

Okay so I went to see my neurologist yesterday and he told me some not so good things about my medicine. Well lately I've been gaining weight..but I exercise everyday for 20 to sometimes even an hour a day and I lift weights. I did the no carb thing but that was short lived but I still counted calories and all that and I havent lost any weight.

My neuro was like "ah you gained weight" and I'm like yeah thanks for reminding me. He said it's because of the Depakote..I was pissed cuz I forgot about that side effect. And he said I can never go off of the depakote b/c when I was just on lamictal I kept having seizures. So I heard Topamax makes you lose weight instead of gain like on depakote. I was wondering..if you have JME-can you take topamax instead of depakote???

Comments

Re: Re: Weight Gain and Depakote

Submitted by sevag on Thu, 2005-12-22 - 10:17

He everyone. I know it's an old post but here is 0.02$. Four year ago I was on Depakote - within two years I gained OVER 100 LBS. Then it simply stopped working for me. My doc put me on Tegretol/Tomamax combo, I went to gym - 5days/week, 2hrs/day - withing a year I lost 120 lbs...go figure...but Topamax makes you stupid; you forget things, constantly searching for words, can't retain simple info, have to re-ask, etc. Many people address T-max as "my stupid pills". Right now I'm in the process of switching over to LAmictal / Tigretol combo - will see what's going to happend! S

Re: Re: Weight Gain and Depakote

Submitted by Brooke on Sun, 2006-01-08 - 18:33

Do not take topamax!!!!! it makes you skinny and stupid, as even said by a Dr. Trust me it is not the rite med for any body. It makes you spacy, dead tired, never able to think, and skinny as a stick. even though that is probably what you want write now because you are frustrated dont do it, just stick with the diet and i am sure y ou will see results in about a months. I am in the same boat This is the second time i been on depakote since the last time i switched to topamax. I gained about fifty pounds, but dieting write now and hopefully it works. peace out and good luck with your meds brooke

Re: Re: Weight Gain and Depakote

Submitted by ashley331 on Thu, 2006-07-06 - 23:12

I take Depakote for my seziures, and I never really gained weight, but I got the other side effect from the medicine which was the hair loss, but now my side effect is gone so, maybe yours will be gone after a while as well.

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