Posted by qbsbrown on August 6, 2009, at 13:52:09
In reply to Re: Dosing Scott, posted by SLS on August 6, 2009, at 13:12:23
> > What about the medication lasting a couple of hours, then totally fading off? Is it more beneficial to switch to the ER version, or to dose 4 times a day if/when ready to raise dose?
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> One is supposed to dose four times a day. However, once you are at a high enough dosage, you might be able to dose three time a day. You'll just have to experiment. At 600mg, I would first try 200mg every 8 hours. At 800mg, you could try 200mg-200mg-400mg.
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> - ScottI do have a fast med metabolism. I can feel the effects, then it completely wears off after a couple of hours.
I have been dosing 8 hours apart, along w/ the diazepam, and for sure feels like interdose wd.
I wonder about the ER version 3 times a day, but just taking that for 2 days, and having really bad memories of my trileptal day came back.
So I could hold this for 5 days, then try the 800 if tolerable. Then I could dose 250-250-300 would probably work better for me, or 2-2-4.
Or if on the ER version, I could go 200-200-400.
Why do you think that the ER version would mimic some effects of trileptal, that the immediate release doesn't?
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