--with the exception of Topomax (which has the opposite effect, generally) can cause weight gain; they all tend to promote fluid retention (not to mention carb cravings).

You should come on over to the peripheral neuropathy board:

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/fo...sprune=-1&f=20

--lots of good people and expertise over there. (We discuss med side effects--especially weight gain--on a pretty regular basis. It's all too common.)

BTW, having well-controlled diabetes does not preclude micro-vascular ischemic neuropathy from the condition, unfortunately. There is more and more evidence that even impaired glucose tolerance well before frank diabetes would be diagnosed can result in neuropathy, and that one needn't have diabetes for years, or have it raging wildly out of control, to have neuropathy symptoms. (If you search posts I've made, you'll find some dicussions and references on this subject.)