Posted by Jackster on December 30, 2002, at 1:49:56
In reply to Re: Depakote for refractory panic? » Jackster, posted by Ritch on December 29, 2002, at 16:47:47
Thanks for the advice. What dose of Buspar were you on? I'm on 15mg and am wondering if I should up the dose.
I looked up Gabitril - and as usual - we don't have it here. We don't even have Effexor which seems to be pretty common in the US. Did you get much of the cognitive disfunction with the depakote? I was on Xanax a couple of years ago and the memory loss was awful. I would forget the names of friends I'd had for years.
I hope you're doing OK - you've been giving good advice here for a while.
Cheers
Jackie> Hi, I actually remembered. I have had strings of panic attacks in the past and any posts about panic catches my eye and it gets burned into my memory easily. I found Buspar to work well with SSRI's. I hope it helps with your panic probs. Depakote and the hairloss thing.. Well, I've never noticed any taking between 125mg-500mg/day. I noticed quite a bit of weight gain however at 500mg. I like clonazepam mainly because it is cheap! My pdoc was wanting to substitite Gabitril for clonazepam but at a lower dose than what I have tried in the past, but that stuff is expensive. Hey, there's another idea for you (Gabitril). You might get a lot of cognitive dysfunction with it however (but it is dose related).
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