Posted by SLS on June 16, 2005, at 8:14:05
In reply to Re: Trileptal 600mg » SLS, posted by emme on June 15, 2005, at 22:14:49
How much higher do people go with Trileptal?
I know I can go higher on the Trileptal. I wish I knew how many people absolutely need higher dosages to glean a therapeutic effect, especially an antidepressant effect.
> It seems like this is the most promising treatment you've reported in eons.
>
> emYes. But...
It feels like I have plateaud already. I feel about as good this week as I did last week. It's hard to tell sometimes, but I would like to feel things that are indicative of an unequivocal trend in the direction of further improvement. The problem with my response to medication in drug trials is that improvements never persist beyond two weeks once they appear. Since I have not been feeling better for two weeks yet, I am still in that zone of uncertainty. If two weeks from now I am feeling better than I am today, I will then feel reassured that things are headed in the direction of a robust response. At this point, I would rate myself as a total of 20% improved over my unmedicated baseline state. Of that, Trileptal is responsible for 5%, so the degree of improvement is small. However, the rate of improvement I experienced the time I did respond well to medication was very gradual.
Today, I am feeling more pessimistic than optimistic.
I know I can go higher on the Trileptal. I wish I knew how many people absolutely need higher dosages to glean a therapeutic effect, especially and antidepressant effect.
- Scott
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