Home Menu

Menu


Reply
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old Nov 05, 2009, 10:01 PM
crystalrose's Avatar
crystalrose crystalrose is offline
Poohbah
 
Member Since: Apr 2009
Location: Australia
Posts: 1,421
My pdoc has suggested a mood stabilises tablet. She suggested tegretol or sodium something. Can't remember.. Can some one give me more information about it. pdoc said that it is a mild mood stabiliser. is it addictive?

advertisement
  #2  
Old Nov 05, 2009, 11:33 PM
mschu528 mschu528 is offline
Member
 
Member Since: Sep 2009
Location: Wisconsin, USA; München, DE
Posts: 31
Tegretol (Carbamazepine) is considered relatively safe. The only common side effects are drowsiness, headache, and upset stomach. It has been indicated (i.e. approved) for epilepsy and acute manic or mixed episodes, and studies show it is also effective for bipolar maintenance (though not officially FDA approved for this). It's also used off-label for schizophrenia. Not considered addictive.

"Sodium something" could be many different mood stabilizers and/or atypical antipsychotics with mood stabilizing properties. Most of the mood stabilizers carry few side effects, usually on stomach or liver function or drowsiness, though often not severe enough to warrant discontinuation. The atypical antipsychs carry a few more side effects, primarily weight gain and somnolence, and the fairly obscure chance of developing diabetes or other blood/heart conditions, and the extremely rare chance of tardive dyskinesia or neuroleptic malignant syndrome. None of these drugs are considered to be addictive though, and all are generally safe.
__________________
"Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years." - R.D. Laing The Politics of Experience (1967)
  #3  
Old Nov 06, 2009, 10:18 AM
Anonymous32910
Guest
 
Posts: n/a
I take tegretol with no problem. No side effects that I can tell. Hope it works for you.
  #4  
Old Nov 06, 2009, 10:21 AM
phoenix47baby's Avatar
phoenix47baby phoenix47baby is offline
Grand Member
 
Member Since: Sep 2009
Location: Southern California
Posts: 619
The one stabilizer that comes to mind that is a salt is Lithium. It has been around for fifty years and is often used as a first, second or third alternative when other stabilizers have not worked. I think it depends upon your psychiatrist and their familiarty with the specific med. Ask lots of questions before agreeing on a new med and good luck. Sending kind thoughts to you today. :-)
__________________
Phoenix47
  #5  
Old Nov 06, 2009, 11:02 AM
spiritual_emergency's Avatar
spiritual_emergency spiritual_emergency is offline
Grand Poohbah
 
Member Since: Feb 2007
Location: The place where X marks the spot.
Posts: 1,848
crystalrose: She suggested tegretol or sodium something.

Probably sodium valproate. It's an anti-convulsant, more commonly used to treat seizure disorders but it's also been discovered to have mood-stabilizing properties.

Here's a starting point for you: Wikipedia: Sodium Valproate

__________________

~ Kindness is cheap. It's unkindness that always demands the highest price.
  #6  
Old Nov 06, 2009, 07:58 PM
VickiesPath's Avatar
VickiesPath VickiesPath is offline
Magnate
 
Member Since: Jul 2009
Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA
Posts: 2,779
Mood Stabilizers are listed as the following: These medications are prescribed to help stabilize manic symptoms, prevent future episodes and reduce suicide risk. The most well-known of these is lithium, which is effective in 60 to 80 percent of manic and hypomanic episodes. Anticonvulsant (or anti-seizure) medications also have mood stabilizing effects. These include valproate (Depakote), carbamazepine (Tegretol), lamotrigine (Lamictal), gabapentin (Neurotin) and topiramate (Topamax).

Medications that help control mood swings: The newest medications, atypical antipsychotics were originally developed to treat psychosis (a symptom of schizophrenia). Like the mood stabilizers above, atypical antipsychotics help to control mood swings. These seven medications are commonly prescribed for bipolar: aripiprazole (Abilify), risperidone (Risperdal), olanzapine (Zyprexa), quetiapine (Seroquel), ziprasidone (Geodon), clozapine (Clozaril) and olanzapine/fluoxetine (Symbyax).

The mood stabilizers are a class of drugs that include some drugs that were originally developed as anti-epileptics. Medications for mood swings are atypical antipsychotics. There is a big difference.

Antipsychotics are not a first-line drug in bipolar treatment unless the patient experiences psychotic features with their bipolar mania or depression. They might also be prescribed as an adjunct therapy in treating bipolar depression alone or along with an antidepressant.
__________________
mood stabilisesVickie
Thanks for this!
Ashleigh28
Reply
Views: 482

attentionThis is an old thread. You probably should not post your reply to it, as the original poster is unlikely to see it.




All times are GMT -5. The time now is 06:42 PM.
Powered by vBulletin® — Copyright © 2000 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.




 

My Support Forums

My Support Forums is the online community that was originally begun as the Psych Central Forums in 2001. It now runs as an independent self-help support group community for mental health, personality, and psychological issues and is overseen by a group of dedicated, caring volunteers from around the world.

 

Helplines and Lifelines

The material on this site is for informational purposes only, and is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis or treatment provided by a qualified health care provider.

Always consult your doctor or mental health professional before trying anything you read here.