Posted by MM on December 25, 2004, at 19:32:55
In reply to Re: Weight Gain and Meds, posted by banga on December 25, 2004, at 16:08:47
I was doing some reading last night on Bipolarworld.com and apparently Trileptal increases liver enzymes that metabolize estrogen, so it ends up decreasing estrogen, which causes or can cause PCOS...which looks a lot like what's been going on. Also, the liver enzymes metabolize medication, so any medication that you take will be metabolized faster than it's meant to be, so my Synthroid might not be as effective. I don't know what all that means as far as what I should do about it (switch Trileptal? to what? more synthroid etc.), but at least I THINK I have a reason for what's going on. Thanks so much for your posts.
Meg
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