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Originally Posted by Blueberrybook
muddy, I'm on oxycarbazepine too, 600 mg twice daily so 1200 mg total. I never updated it in my meds list, maybe I ran out of room in the signature or something. My neurologist put me on it for peripheral neuropathy. I don't think it made much difference for the neuropathy but my pdoc was all for me staying on it said it would help me with the bipolar (though I didn't quite get his logic as to how it's supposed to help).
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It's an anticonvulsant (same class as Depakote, Tegretol, Lamictal, gabapentin, etc.) so I guess the logic is that "it's like the others, so it should be a mood stabilizer." But you don't really hear of other anticonvulsants like Keppra or Briviact ever being used for bipolar. I'm not super well read on anti-epileptic meds though, so I guess some just do well with bipolar and some don't. I tried zonegran once and I haven't heard of anyone else trying it. I couldn't stay on it more than three days though because it reduced my appetite way too much and I was so manic I really needed something heavily sedating that worked ASAP anyways.