Posted by CareBear04 on April 15, 2009, at 12:47:19
In reply to Lithium plus another mood stabilizer?, posted by ajax1 on April 15, 2009, at 10:09:21
wow, sounds like you're in quite a bind. i can undersand lamictal causing hypomania since it seems to work better as an antidepressant than as a mood stabilizer. but such a small dose of lithium is activating? hmmm...
my experiences with depakote and trilepal were pretty brief. for me, they were much more sedating than lithium and really slowed me down. even on a really small dose of depakote (250mg bid), i felt foggy and was uncoordinated. trileptal made me feel completely dead--it was a really weird and unpleasant feeling of almost being outside of my body and not caring at all about what was going on. it made me want to go so far as to harm myself in order to feel something.
hope this helps!
cb
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