Posted by blueberry on December 8, 2006, at 14:31:14
In reply to Re: Zyprexa Very Hard to Stop » blueberry, posted by SLS on December 8, 2006, at 9:32:18
> Kind of a long shot, but perhaps Depakote would act to prevent the kindling of an anxiety-agitation reaction. Besides, if you have never been on it, perhaps now is a good time to try it. Is there any history of affective disorder in your family?
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> - ScottHi Scott,
Nice to hear from you. I appreciate it. I have been on Depakote ER 500mg. Within 24 hours I was feeling significant relief from depression. It was unexpected and nice. Strange though, it created a mild anxiety that hadn't existed before. Within 2 weeks it didn't feel like it was doing anything. After a month I was feeling more depressed.
The problem is that during that time my doctor had me tapering from prozac to lexapro. I am pretty sure lexapro was worsening my depression, because when I tried it again months later long after depakote was gone, lexapro made me feel very depressed. So was depakote depressing? Or was it the lexapro? Or both? I don't know. Darn.
I do know that when I tried to stop depakote because it wasn't doing anything, I ended up in the emergency room with a really bad depression. I was feeling recovered somewhat from that in about 36 hours after following their orders to restart depakote. I later tapered off slower without any problem. It feels like it works short term, but longterm I don't know. I tried 1000mg and no way could I handle that. Severe confusion and amnesia. I still have plenty onhand stored in a cool place. I always save meds for the future "just in case".
Going back several generations there is affective disorder in my family traits. This is going back a long time, but from what I have heard it was depression and melancholia in great grandparents and before.
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