Had my physical in preparation for my appt with my new pdoc. In addition to the normal bloodwork they also checked the levels of depakote in my system, and it's low. Not up to therapeutic levels yet.

I'm only on 500mg (250 2x/day) so it's not a huge surprise. I'm just wondering what will happen if we increase the dose.

The side effects I got were nausea, abdominal pain, and loss of appetite. I lost about 15-20 pounds too, I assume because I wasn't eating. They went away after the first few weeks and now I don't have any side effects that I know of (I have intermittent hand tremors but that could be a couple of things).

Basically, I'm worried that higher doses will lead to other unpleasant side effects. When you increased your depakote dose, did you get new side effects?