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Originally Posted by owllover99
Yeah, that could be it, too. I was on Depakote like a week and couldn't even get out of bed. So maybe your pdoc can put you on something else. That's better than bad depression. It sucks, too. Medicine (especially mental medicine is a trial and error "science". Sounds like another error was made. Good luck.
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If Depakote is not the med for me than I am pretty much out of options according to the doctor at the hospital. I think my current p-doc is a little more creative and can hopefully come up with something.
For mood stabilizers, I have so far been on:
Lithium
Lamictal
Trileptal
Topamax
and now Depakote.
There are still Tegretol, Nuerontin and Zyprexa left to try according to the doctor at the hospital, but he doesn't think those will work for me if the others I have tried don't. Lithium and Lamictal might have worked but I couldn't tolerate the tremors of Lithium and I was allergic to Lamical. (not the rash, but my lymph nodes were swelling up while I took it.)
As much as I would love to not have to take meds, I am afraid to be out of options because that means the swings will be even deeper than they have been while on meds.
It is really boring to not care about doing anything. Even when I am able to get out and do something, the days are just so unbelieveably long.