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dahlia
Newly Joined
Registered: December 2006
Location: Chicago
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Review Date: Sun December 10, 2006
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Total Spent: $8.00| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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Has stabalized my moods without causing weight gain and it has also helped with my seizures
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Can make you very sleepy
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I started taking this medication after I refused to stay on the other basic mood stabilizers due to weight gain. It has been a god send for me. I has also helped with my seizures. Since having a VNS implant and staying on the trileptal I have been seizure free. I still roll in and out of depression (rapid cyc) but it is pretty mild compared to what it use to be.
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mrwagner66
New Member
Registered: September 2006
Location: Michigan, USA
Posts: 1
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Review Date: Wed August 29, 2007
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Total Spent: None indicated| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Has helped reduce severe mood swings, outbursts, anger spells
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Cons:
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None as of yet!
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I had been on this before with Lexapro and it had worked great, pulled the stupid route of "I feel great, I'm cured!" and went off of everything in Dec 2006 - what a crash! By June I was almost fired for my fits of anger, called in numerous times due to depression and hostility. Hit the skids and called a therapist, now I'm back on both and feel very tranquil.. nothing in the zombie state at all! Behavior has improved as well as my insight on life itself. Thinking is much clearer due to lessoning of hostility.
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leftyscotty
New Member
Registered: October 2007
Posts: 1
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Review Date: Thu October 4, 2007
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Total Spent: None indicated| Rating: 0
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Pros:
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Better because you dont have to get blood tests all the time
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Works for me!!
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gravyyy
Veteran Member
Registered: October 2007
Location: Ohio :(
Posts: 396
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Review Date: Fri January 29, 2010
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Total Spent: None indicated| Rating: 5
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Pros:
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No side effects
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Cons:
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It didn't really work
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This medication was fantastic in that it didn't cause me to have the weight gain and sleepiness that Depakote did. I loved that I felt completely normal as far as side effects on it. Problem is it never helped stabilize my mood. It's a weak mood stabilizer. I had 4 other meds in combination with it and I was still cycling like crazy. Finally switched to Lithium about a year ago and my mood cycling has been much milder. Overall I would recommend this to others to try depending on the severity of mood symptoms. It's absolutely not known to be a strong mood stabilizer so if you have severe symptoms it's not going to work really well. Could be worth a try though for many people.
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