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Old Feb 09, 2007, 08:11 PM
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Hi y'all, I am SO discouraged. I went to my pdoc to discuss my mania and she noticed this rash I have had on my face, spreading to my neck and chest......side effects from depakote. She immediately took me off of it and I cannot start Lamactil unti the rash is totally gone. She dropped my Lexapro by 1/2 and will remove it next week. She is pushing my seroquel up tons to try to stabilze the mania. I am basically starting over, again. Sometimes it would just be easier to give it all up and be a state hospital resident. I just needed to tell someone, thanks for listening.

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Old Feb 09, 2007, 09:48 PM
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I'm sorry to hear that. That's the one big thing the pharmacist told me to look out for with depakote is the rash, so it must be really important.

Hopefully the seroquel does the trick in the interim.

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Old Feb 10, 2007, 01:11 AM
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Sorry to hear of your troubles...sometimes we do just have to start over, for one reason or another. We live such a balancing act, walk such a tightrope between the two extremes, it is really frustrating and scary sometimes. We take all these drugs in hopes they will make us well, but they are so powerful, and it seems like more often than not they do more harm than good.

Seroquel is one of the few drugs available that helps both sides of the equation...Lamictal is the only other one that I know of. So, hopefully things will begin to stabilize for you a bit. At least your pdoc is working with you on it; so many don't even have that!

I hope you have an OK and safe weekend. You are in my thoughts.

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