Posted by Maxime on May 15, 2005, at 20:13:22
In reply to Re: Trileptal Tegretol - taken together..? Maxine, posted by Nickengland on May 15, 2005, at 5:07:29
Hey.
I take a low dose of Trileptal - 450 mg. It's the only mood stabiliser that I have been able to tolerate. It helps with irritability.
It's strange that you should you think it helps with depression because it has no anti-depressant properties.
Tegretol and Trileptal are almost the same except Trileptal has an oxygen atom attached to it! That is what gives is a low side effect profile and less contraindications with other meds.
Should be interesting to hear what your doctor or pharmacist has to say.
Maxime
> Hello Maxine : )
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> No my doctor doesn't know, but I havent started taking both together yet..
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> I think as for helping with depression, the trileptal is the best for that with also providing a mild anti-manic effect, I can sleep well and anxiety isn't so bad.
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> The tegretol I guess just provides a far stronger anti-manic effect also helps with anxiety too with the extra sedation.
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> Your right about asking the pharmacist, I was hoping ed might be able to offer some advice too lol.
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> Yep I get my blood levels checked and everything seems ok.
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> Basically this started because I was taking tegretol for about a month @ 200mg a day. (i get prescribed quite low doses of drugs) It seemed to be making me a little depressed though, so I went and saw my psychiatrist and changed over to Trileptal - which was great for my mood...but i started to get kidney pains. So back I go to the doctor and start with Tegretol again!
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> The thing is while I was waiting to get the prescription for the Tegretol the kidney pains seemed to easing up whilst i was still taking the trileptal...lol..i feel like an idiot I much prefer taking the Trileptal as its so much better for my mood and now im back on tegretol which is making me feel more depressed!
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> Am I right in thinking you take Trileptal? what dose do you take and how do you like it as a mood stabiliser?
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> I found it the best out of all of them if it wasn't for the kidney thing..I can see myself going back to it, but because I take such low doses I just wondered how it'd be taking them together eg 100mg teg and 150mg tri.
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> Kind regards
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> Nick
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