Posted by Nickengland on June 3, 2005, at 12:29:17
In reply to Re: Tegretol/Topamax Combo Anyone been on this? » Nickengland, posted by SLS on June 3, 2005, at 11:08:20
Hello Scott
Yes malaise sure is a word thats fits the description. I don't like taking something that makes me feel this way. There seems to be a fine line when a medicine actually makes you feel better and then when a medicine appears to make you feel worse. The Tegretol to me in some respects makes me better...but it also cross the line and makes me feel worse.
This is where I found Trileptal better (putting th kidney pain aside) I generally did not feel that it was making me feel worse. The "heavyness" of mood was completely gone, it seemed the balance was just right.
Thats great that you can play with the dose. For me personally I found 300mg to be just right. I can only add from my experience that I would think if you decide to stick with Trileptal, 300mg may well be the best dosage..saying that you may feel even better without it altogether...
I know how you feel about a stable regime, i'm getting close but still have abit of tweaking to do. I can't wait till I get it right. It will be nice when I can just take the pill everyday and not think about adding anything or taking away..when you reach that point its the best indicator you've got as far as you can go I think. I did reach that with Trileptal briefly and it was a great feeling.
Thanks for suggesting Keppra. Its always nice to know theres something else. I hate thinking I only have 1 more option left to try, and thats given me another one :-) Hey also Verapamil..have you tried or heard of this?
Glad you mention about Topamax tritation.. I will be going very slow indeed if I get it and will take a very small dose anyway. I really want to avoid those cognitive side effects..thats the one i'm worried about. Always though, my psychiatrist puts me on low doses and strangely enough never even speaks about raising the dose. Which sometimes I wonder if he's under-dosing me, you wouldn't believe the low doses he puts me on compared with others on here and its not like i'm a small guy or anything. I mean i'm on just 200mg of Tegretol. I would imagaine 25mg or 50mg would be the dose given and thats all he would give.
Mifepristone sounds interesting, be sure to let us know how that goes. Was that originally used for abortion? I do remember sometime last year reading about that and how it was very effective for psychotic depression..Don't quote me exactly on that, but if its abortion related then from what I read it was brillant for psychotic depression.
Hope you manage to get some peace from these drugs soon...
Kind regards
Nick
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