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May 06, 2013, 07:35 PM
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Member Since: Mar 2013
Location: USA
Posts: 1,486
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Originally Posted by notALICE
My Pdoc added it to the Gabapentin I've been taking for about 2 months. Gabapentin is reputed as ineffective on it's own for Bipolar I. The Trileptal is supposed to counteract the depression, after I came down from mania.
Thoughts? Experience?
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This is interesting, I think both of these medications are unusual in the treatment of bipolar disorder. Have you tried the more 'typical' mood stabilizers (lithium, lamictal, etc.) and they didn't work? I looked up Trileptal and could only find that it's used for seizures. Of course anti-seizure medication is typically used for bipolar, but this particular one (like gapapentin) are not 'first line' treatments for bipolar from what I have read.
I'm curious what your psychiatrist has said about prescribing these? Are these new/new research has come out about their uses for bipolar? Or have others you've tried just not worked?
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