Posted by cache-monkey on March 26, 2005, at 12:48:43
In reply to Re: Depakote successes with low side f/x? (ER better?) » cache-monkey, posted by Ritch on March 25, 2005, at 23:14:49
Hi Ritch (Mitch?),
Thanks for the input. I don't know if I'm going to go all that high on Depakote. My pdoc was all about pushing the dose on Lithium past where I was actually feeling stable b/c I was not in the therapeutic range yet. That ended up leading to diabete insipidus. (Slowly clearing up now that the Li has been removed.) Hopefully he'll be more conservative and go off my subjective experience after that...
But still, the hunger thing could very well be an issue. Even when I'm unmedicated, I can get pretty revenous. (Although when I'm undmedicated, my guilt/anxiety/repressed emotions lead me to ignore it, be hungry and miserable.)
If I end up adding an AD, I'm pushing hard for low-dose selegiline. I think dopamine's my thing, since I've been self-medicating with cigarettes for years. (Plus caffeine, which also turns on the DA-juice.)
Out of curiousity, what's your diagnosis? BP of some form? Or was the lithium/depakote added as an adjunct to "boost" the prozac? Oh, and one more thing: any hair loss for you?
Thanks in advance,
cache-monkey<< Actually, I've found that the weight gain I've experienced while on Depakote had as much to do or more to do with SSRI or Remeron usage than the Depakote itself. I'm just taking 250mg ER and .5mg of clonazepam and I weigh less now than I did when I was on 300mg of lithium with Prozac. That's the trouble with combos. You can't tell what's really causing what. I *do* definitely feel hungrier on higher doses of Depakote so it definitely can pack it on.. just be careful not to be on something else that also does that.. >>
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