Hi it's Darren again.  I just thought I let you know all is well with me.  I have reduced down to 250 mgs of depakote with no side effects.  I am taking 2 125 mg tablets of depakote I take 1 in the morning and 1 at night so it is working out great.  I have lost weight the heaviest I have been was 285 pounds now I am down to 231 pounds.  At this rate, I seem to lose 4 pounds per month.  I am not complaining and I don't really exercise much but I noticed my stamina has increased a great deal so that is good.  My grandma is back home from the nursing home.  She's a very independent lady all by her self but she is having someone wash her clothes for her becuase it is downstairs in the basement and she has to use a walker to walk with and has bad knees.  She has had a lot of surgeries but she turned 92 in January of this year so she still going.  She is the remaining grandparent I have left all the others are gone.  They passed away.  My mom is trying to see what happens with her.  All it takes is a bad fall and she could be  permanently in a nursing home.  Aside from that my diet has changed plus I am not eat vivacously as I did when I was on zyprexa.  I am slowly weaning off the meds and doing a good job of it so see what happens.  I thnk it is good I have been with seeing my naturopath not to far from a few months of a year.  It is amazing the progress I have been doing.  The only thing I did do was get my teeth fixed at the dentist they are crowded and crooked but I paid a lot of money into it so I will have to pay little at a time and go from there.  I am doing fairly well I volunteer on fridays for 3 hours I think when we reduce the geodon I might go for more hours.  I will have to wait and see.  Well, that's the update.  Thanks.

Darren