oh yes, I surely do. I have put on over 3 stone since I became diabetic in 2006. I am T2, metformin and vildagliptin to keep it under control, but they seem to becoming ineffective.
My GP warned me that depression was a common 'side effect' for diabetics, and I poo poo'd it as I always think every cloud has a silver lining, but: after losing my job of 33 years due to my diabetes and an inexorable and slow weight gain, I woke up one day with depression, and it is horrible. My GP put me on venlafaxine and gabapentin. They worked almost straight away, but I hated the way my brain felt and tried to stop taking them - boy what a mistake - the side effects from stopping were not pleasant - sever giddyness and nausea. Took me three months to get off them, but now I am clean!
Just the diabetes and assocaited Blood Pressure, Cholestrol etc tablets now. 9 a day, lummy, in 2009 I was on 27 tablets a day.
I Monitor everything i eat at a website called www.livestrong.com using a feature called daily plate. It tells me I am eating approx 1800 cals per day, the weight should be dropping off me - it isn't.
So yes, depression is an everpresent 'risk'
But, and here is the good bit, I am still alive ! And that is a bonus!
