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Re: Someone Said Neurotin for Anxiety or Depakote?

Posted by med_empowered on May 22, 2007, at 2:12:02

In reply to Re: Someone Said Neurotin for Anxiety or Depakote?, posted by elanor roosevelt on May 21, 2007, at 20:30:49

I've had docs try to get me to go with depakote for anxiety. I guess the idea is that since they have a dulling effect, they must have an anxiolytic effect--this just isn't the case.

Can you get your doc to increase the benzo dosage? The goal should be to get your anxiety under control with the fewest drugs and side effects as possible. A benzo will lower your anxiety with few side effects and relatively low cost. You just need to get the dose high enough to get anxiety relief w/o disinhibition. Remember that some people take 4-8mgs/klonopin (thats 80-160mgs/day valium) and up to 10mgs/day of xanax. Benzos are ridiculously cheap, very effective, and remarkably safe--I think you'd do yourself a favor by focusing on a benzo instead of trying other drugs.


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