Posted by Sheilac on February 17, 2014, at 15:33:07
I saw my pdoc last week and because Trileptal is causing terrible swelling & pain she added a very low dose of Depakote, which promptly made me lower than depressed. Just awful.
I've gotten 2 diff opinions on Trileptal. My pdoc says to take the lowest dose that won't cause pain & swelling and the neurologist I saw several months ago says to take more. I don't understand. I would think more would cause more pain & swelling? Any thoughts?
In the meantime, my pdoc said to stop Depakote and add a low dose of Lamictal for depression. Bam! It worked immediately. But as I recall in the past when I tried Lamictal by itself with nothing else, I was hypomanic and it never calmed me down. I got up to 100mg and was still crazy.
The Trileptal is helping me sleep at night and the low dose of Lamictal is great for depression, but when does the switch happen that Lamictal will help with mixed state? When will it stop making me hyper?
My pdoc didn't recommend taking Depakote with Lamictal. Not sure why. She preferred Trileptal & Lamictal.
I wish I could just take Trileptal without the swelling & pain.
Any thoughts on this? I'm holding out hope that I don't get the weird mouth issues with Lamictal as I did in the past.
Why is Trileptal causing the joint pain & swelling? This is all very frustrating!
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