[Marshellette]

Which med for a rapic cycling bipolar female who also experiences myoclonic seizures and myokemia. Trileptal or Lamictal? Lamictal was just ok for me, stopped the seizures but made me hypomanic. Trileptal will make you lose weight by making everything taste like **** but may be more effective for mania and more toxic, yet less than Tegretol. My eye twitches constantly, it is related to myokemia (a form of basal ganglia brain seizure). My aunt died by having an epliptic seizure and falling down the stairs and banging her dome. My seizures are more of an annoyance, muscle jerking that causes pain and interrupted sleep. Lithium made me suicidal for nearly a year after I stopped taking it. Trileptal, I heard is safer than Tegretol? Any experiences? I find it fascinating that bipolar disorder and epilepsy are thought to be related, both involving seizuring of nerve signaling dendrites in the brain. I have both as well as migraines, another brain wave disorder. I wish that people would not refer to bipolar as a "mood disorder" to me it is that and more, closely related to my seizures and migraines. Fascinatingly, drugs that work for epilepsy also work for bipolar AND migraines. So anyone try Trileptal and like it?