If you get hairloss (or want to be pro-active) Centrum Silver helps.

Depakote worked for me but I metabolized it way too fast and had to be on a very high dose (3000 mg or maybe 3500 mg) and even then my levels sometimes didn't stay up. On the high doses I did gain weight but hard to know if it was depakote or another drug since I was on it with Seroquel for a few years and lithium the entire time I took it.

I've read that as long as the dose is below 1000 mg major side effects are unlikely.