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Beating the weight gain of Remeron - Low carb diets?

It's no secret that I am one of many people out there that finally found a safe, effective & non-addictive medication to treat a rare form of intractable insomnia. My insomnia is a result of metabolic issues combined with your typical life stressors, which makes it difficult to treat and pretty much chronic. For the past twelve years, I have struggled with various treatments for my insomnia in a desperate attempt to find those illusive zzzzz's. What I didn't know, was that while I was so hyper-focused on falling asleep that I didn't realize that the sleep I was getting was very poor. After a string of ineffective, short-term medications whose side effects were worse than their cure, a new doctor I was seeing decided to try me on Remeron. Within days, I was sleeping like I had never slept before. I slept heavily those first few weeks, finding it difficult to wake up and get going in the morning. But, after I adjusted I started sleeping normally for the first tim