Posted by hundredhugs on September 21, 2004, at 7:39:27
Anyone else on this combo? I went through horrible side effect on the Tegretol (double vision, dizziness, ataxia, nausea...), plus i was still cycling. Needless to say I was miserable. I was in the hospital for a week and a half and they sent me home and I wasn't stabilized. I was almost as wild as I was when i went in. Then BAM the tegretol SE's hit me. Now that they are gone I am hypomanic. I think the tegretol is going to work for me but the SE are awful. Anywone with the same same exeriences? How does Tripiliteal compare? I asked the pdoc about it when i was in the hosp and she said tegretol worked better... i was in bed for 4 days with major SE then mod for a couple days and they were mostly gone yesterday, but my pdoc is raising the dosage because of the hypomania, i don't want to go through that again!!!!!!!! I am on lithium too and it seemed to keep me down to a moderate mania instead of full blown, but I rapid cycled (several a day)and it fried me so lithium can't hold me but mellowed out the mania, but not enough to keep me out of the hosp.
Interested in anyone eles's experiences.
Thanks,
Hundredhugs
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