Posted by Ritch on February 6, 2005, at 14:16:09
In reply to Is there a medication out there?, posted by stresser on February 6, 2005, at 13:32:30
> My daughter has been on Wellbutrin, Paxil, Lexapro, Effexor, topamax, and now Trileptal and Zoloft. She has been diagnosed with bipolar II and also has a binge eating disorder. She cannot control her eating and since starting the last two medications has gained more weight, and I am wondering if they are wrong for her. The topomax wellbutrin was working for her and she was controling the weight, except her hair started to fall out so she stopped taking them. I am starting to not be able to trust the doctor.....and I don't think there's anything out there that will help her and keep her weight down at the same time. Is there anything that can keep her train of thought away from food and on something else? Mood stabilizers have not helped her grades at all, and since she is not ADD the doctor won't give her medication for that. I was hoping he would do that in an experiment so that we could find out if it would help her concentrate better on her school work. Things are going from bad to worse, and that's not what I had expected when we found these new doctors.....I'm exhaused! I would appreciate any advice.
> Thanks a bunch,
> LYou mentioned that Topamax and Wellbutrin were working, but that her hair started to fall out and you stopped *both* meds? Are you sure you can attribute the hair loss to both meds? Just wondering if she could have stayed on the Topamax or the Wellbutrin and just changed one med instead. It can be really tough to find meds that have efficacy, and then discontinue because of side effects. Had her doctors considered trying to add Folic acid or selenium/zinc or other things to control the hair loss? Just wondering if there was a way for her to go back to the effective meds and find a way to mitigate the hair loss, or at least isolate the hair loss to one med or the other. Hope this helps.
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