Posted by bipolarspectrum on April 25, 2006, at 17:22:52
In reply to Re: Why are so many people down on Depakote?, posted by blueberry on April 25, 2006, at 5:35:17
Hey Blue,
I experience the same thing with mood stabilizers! On both tegretol and trileptal (and now possibly Depakote) I get an initial mood boost and stoppage of cycling.. but this never lasts past a few days mabye a week.. what r u doing for this??
bps> My only complaint with depakote was that it only provided good benefits for the first 3 days and then nothing after that. My mood improved dramatically and the mood swings stopped. But after 3 days, mood again dropped and the swings returned. Dosage increase didn't do anything except magnify the fogginess side effect.
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> The brain fog side effect was the only side effect for me, other than weight gain which was desirable for me. If the depakote had kept working, I would not have minded the brain fog. I just didn't want to have that side effect when the med wasn't doing anything for me.
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