Posted by Sue4 on November 9, 2001, at 15:34:23
In reply to Re: Trileptal and topomax » Sue4, posted by Mitch on November 9, 2001, at 13:46:08
I've never been on Tegrotol, although I've been on Depakote. Side effects of weight gain and heart pains made me stop. I've been on Topomax for a long time and have been able to go up to 200 mg (slowly) w/o any apparent cognitive side effects...my pdoc thinks I cycle too much on addition of antidepressants (wellbutrin and prozac)and that the neurontin isn't really all that effective. Yet he thinks I could handle the antidepressants with the addition of another anticonvulsant. Have you tried Lamictal?? My Pdoc doesn't seem all that excited about that. Sue
> I haven't heard any blaring success stories with Trileptal. I tried it for a while as a switch from Neurontin. The bad thing is it tends to provoke a lot of nausea in susceptible people. The *good* thing is it doesn't seem to blur cognition as much as Lithium, Depakote, or Topamax. In fact I got some antidepressant effect from it. Have you ever been on Tegretol? It is supposed to be very similar.
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