Posted by yxibow on March 7, 2006, at 2:47:50
In reply to Experiences with Trileptal??????, posted by qbsbrown on March 6, 2006, at 2:36:50
> I understand that 600mg is the typical starting dose. Would it be less if simply for withdrawing from another medication?It works on sodium channels, not GABA so it would not help directly in those cases necessarily. 600mg is a bit high to start with personally -- but that's just my doctor being a bit conservative. It carries a risk, a small one, of liver problems, but not nearly as carbamezapine. I think I started at 150 to see if it had any reaction but then I have a polypharmacy so that was the issue, slowly to 300 and now 375 until I can get my liver values measured at my next physical. As they say, your miles may vary.
As for the psychoactive experience -- I dont think I'm at a clinical dose nor have we exhausted the medication yet. It caused a headache at 150 and a mini migraine like headache (I dont get migraines) around 300, temporarily. Those have disappeared as far as I can tell.
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