Posted by JohnX2 on November 3, 2001, at 23:24:16
In reply to Re: depakote placebo effect, posted by JahL on November 3, 2001, at 16:56:14
I was thinking I could take some of my depakote
pills and put them in the coffee grinder.
I believe that would scramble the binders
enough to free up the therapeutic compound for
depekene-ish like absorbtion.Any thoughts?
-john
> >
> > I've always wondered why I got a placebo
> > effect on sustained release depakote when
> > *every* other anti-convulsant did something?
> > The only thing the depakote did was give me
> > a pain in my side and turn my stools green.
> >
> > Is this an indicator of some sort of >metabolism problem? I always thought >about taking depakene
> > just as an experiment to see if it would also
> > be a placebo..
>
> I've tried both (6wks into an VPA (Convulex) trial my pdoc decided it *had* to be Depakote). Fwiw the transfer was seamless, both agents having the same effect of reducing suicidal ideation, to the same degree.
>
> J
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