So far, taking tegretol is going well (knock on wood). Tomorrow is my first day upping the dose to 200 mg in the morning and 200 mg at night. I've been putting off calling my pdoc about risperidone affecting my blood pressure because I want to figure out if/how tegretol is going to help before having to adjust or stop taking a another med. At the same time, my blood pressure was 90 something over 50 or 60 something at my PT appointment today and I still feel light headed and dizzy at times (not all day though)...It's hard to know if/how much these symptoms are caused by the low blood pressure and what is caused by what's going on with my vestibular system.

It's also probably a complete a complete coincidence, but I just realized as I was typing this that (back when I was taking lithium) I woke up with cold symptoms the next day. The same exact thing happened with tegretol-I took my first dose (200 mg) Saturday night and woke up feeling a little congested on Sunday and have on and off cold symptoms since. Weird.

My brain is feeling a little maniky, but that could just be me being overtired from overdoing it at work today and then having PT after work.