Posted by Scott L. Schofield on December 12, 1999, at 16:26:40
In reply to Re: Depakote makes depression worse ?, posted by S. Suggs on December 12, 1999, at 16:04:28
> How did it make the depression worse, what were the increase in symptoms or new symptoms?
I suffer from bipolar depression that presents very much like atypical unipolar depression. Depakote 1000+ mg/day causes my depression to worsen as if I were untreated. It does not start a "new" type of depression that feels different from the original. I have experienced this once before.
I get some slight relief from taking Lamictal 300 mg/day. This improvement disappears when I added Depakote 1500 mg/day. I want to try to add Depakote again because I seemed to improve transiently while titrating up quickly to 1500 mg and upon discontinuation. Although the improvement that occurred on the way down may have been a sort of rebound, I can't rule out that lower dosages may work.
Specifically, the addition of Depakote caused a worsening of anergia, psychomotor retardation, memory difficulties, inability to read more than a few sentences at a time, anhedonia, and hypersomnia.
Of course, I would hope that this phenomenon has occurred with others, and that they experienced a therapeutic window within which Depakote works great.
I'm afraid to hope.
Blessings to you...- Scott
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