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Originally Posted by RisuNeko
Glad you got a better night's sleep. Sorry that meds gave you diabetes. Meds made me gain 116 lbs in two years and I'm sure I would have developed diabetes and other things if I didn't go from 12 meds to 4 meds. Geodon helps me sleep sometimes (if I eat enough with it, which I usually don't) and it's weight neutral, which is nice.
Have you tried metformin for the diabetes? I take it for metabolic syndrome and it's helped me lose 64 lbs so far. Kind of stuck now, and not able to lose any more, but I'm going to keep trying anyway.
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I also gained a ton of weight from meds. I'm on metformin, but I don't think my weight loss is from the metformin though. I lost 30 when I was put on meds for hypothyroidism and then another 30 a year ago when I came off of Seroquel. As soon as I went back on Seroquel I stopped losing weight. All this time I have ate healthy. The last 3 months I was weaning off of the Seroquel and have lost 9 pounds. So almost 70 pounds. I'm technically not overweight anymore but I am for me, but very happy though. I don't think it's the metformin, every time I'm off that stupid Seroquel the weight falls right off. If I do need a AP, and being only on Lamictal, I'm thinking Geodon because of it being weight neutral. Thanks so much, and I hope you can keep losing the weight, it's really hurt my self-esteem since I never had problems until these dang meds. I actually had the opposite problem. Good luck
