Posted by SLS on February 29, 2012, at 4:34:56
In reply to Re: Part 2 - Please no anti-med posts - and UPDATE » Solstice, posted by TriedEveryMedication on February 28, 2012, at 22:38:37
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> > ANTICONVULSANTS: I was just floored. I brought up Zonegran, Topomax, Trileptal, etc. She said 'absolutely not.' She said that there are no scientific studies proving that they work any better than placebo. She said she did use Topomax when it first came out, but doesn't think it was effective. She said Lamictal and Depakote are the only anticonvulsants she's willing to use. :-(
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> Trileptal seems to work in 1/2 of patients in this study:
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> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12927010
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> I'm taking it right now and the sides are almost non-existent at 900mg
I found Trileptal to be a very clean drug.
- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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