• peopleproblems@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Oh yeah. Worst med I was ever told to try. Hated life so much during it and gained so much weight.

    I don’t even know why my doc tried it. I don’t go to him anymore.

    • fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      Yeah it’s apparently a common first choice for bipolar (which is overly diagnosed). It made me gain a ton of weight, and then my doc was exclusively concerned about my weight from that point on, until I stopped going to him.

      Before that though, I was just like “I gained the weight because of a side effect from a med you gave me, for a condition that I don’t have. The weight is an issue that will be fixed if we look at the actual problem here, doc.”

      Ugh.