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Jan 15, 2015, 09:24 PM
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I haven't been getting much sleep lately, and when I do it's not good sleep because I have horrible vivid nightmares. This started when I went up to 500mg on Depakote. Has anyone else here experienced this? It's bothering me a lot, I no longer like to sleep because of this. I will bring it up with my pdoc when I see her at the end of this month.
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Jan 15, 2015, 10:17 PM
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No I haven't had any nightmares, but was on 1,000 before I stopped taking. Back on 500 again tonight, so I'll see how it goes. Just felt tired all the time.
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Jan 15, 2015, 11:13 PM
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Hi Blue_Bird
I used to take Depakote and it was a great mood stabilizing med. I did gain a lot of weight on it so I decided to stop it. I did not have any nightmares on it. I am wondering if something else might be causing this. I hope others will come along and share their experience on this med. I hope you feel better and get some much needed sleep very soon. ((hugs)) |
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Jan 16, 2015, 02:17 AM
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Thanks for the replies guys, I cross posted this in the Sleep Issues and Dream Interpretation forum
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Jan 16, 2015, 02:46 AM
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I took Depakote for ~ three years and had no more nightmares at that time than I have had while not taking it. But that doesn't mean that it isn't possible for you to have an adverse effect that I didn't. Talk to your pdoc.
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