Not sure what to do about meds. Thoughts?

I left a message for my p-doc about all the sickness I have been having on Depakote. She hasn't called me back yet, and I did take my dose this morning (I skipped last night because I was really sick and vomiting again). Now I am feeling some heart burn brewing even though I was very careful about what I ate today. My dillema is that if I take my evening dose, I will very likely have heart burn and/or vomit tonight.

If I don't hear from my p-doc, I am considering skipping my dose again tonight.

Can you take a smaller dose? Do you know if it needs to be tapered down? It can be dangerous to stop some drugs suddenly.

I could just take my old dose of 250 both morning and night. It wasn't working before and I had to go to the hospital and they raised my dose to 625 per day. That dose put me n zombie land with violent sickness. My p-doc told me to take my 500mg every day and every other day take an extra 125 to equal 625.

And I had heartburn on the 500mg per day as well.

I really think that Depakote is slowly poisoning me.

Hope things work out... sounds reasonable to me but still try to check with your pdoc, or check with a gp...

I took my meds tonight. I am hoping for the best. Feeling a little queasy though.

I hope your pdoc gets back to you really soon - is there no emergency line you can contact? Otherwise I would really decrease my dose

I would keep calling you pdoc, every hour, on the hour! Squeaky wheels get grease! That is madening that your pdoc has not called you back yet! Keep on him/her until you get that call back.

I did finally hear from her this morning. I am going back down to my original dose and keep an eye on my symptoms.

Last night I was sick to my stomach again and had diarrhea and heartburn.

I had Depakote poisoning in fall of 2007.I was put in the hospital and Rehab for 16 days.I don't remember the dose.I did not have stomach symptons.I had bad shaking.I was on Depekote for 5 years but when I had severe depression they kept upping my dose until I was poisoned.Since jan 20008 I take 80 mg Geodon120 mg Prozac 45 mg Buspar 30 mg Remeron

Just a reminder of how carefully we need to monitor ourselves and how aware we need to be of our bodies' normal reaction, and when to notice a problem. Being poisoned by meds that are supposed to help me - that scares me tremendously.
BNL - glad things are looking up. And I agree that dropping the dose is probably the right thing for now; I just hope you manage to remain stable.