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Re: Weight Gain and Memory Loss with Narcolepsy

Posted by BeeBee on August 16, 1999 at 08:41:55:

In Reply to: Weight Gain and Memory Loss with Narcolepsy posted by Janet Gross on August 05, 1999 at 12:42:26:

I feel for your daughter!!
I also have put on the weight and it is depressing. I do take prozac and was taking depakote--both of these to slow me down & put weight on me. But now I am just sort of being obese. And my psych doc tells me that provogil is a stimulant. Well it is not for me!!So for the last 7 dys I have been taking Tegretol. So I don't know where my head is right now.
But all in all I was having pretty good focus & energy I think with the provogil. I still took my naps.
Right now I am really pretty depressed over the sleeping, and weight gain.
Is your daughter actually seeing a sleeping disorder doc? if so insists that she get something else for the narco. Ask him for cylert or provogil.
My 20yr college student just had the lab test done and I am hoping if she has to take a med it will be provogil....however she is already pretty thin and doesnt eat too often. So he might put her on something else if provogil truly does decrease you r appetite.
Tell your daughter that once you are - down - there is only - up- left to go!

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