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Posted on: Monday, June 30, 2008 at 12:34 am
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What is the difference between Lamital and Depakote for treating bipolar disorder? Which works better for you?
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Phillip asked:
I’m thinking about switching from Lamictal to Depakote for my bipolar disorder. Has anyone tried both? Which works better?
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I’m thinking about switching from Lamictal to Depakote for my bipolar disorder. Has anyone tried both? Which works better?
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Posted on: Monday, June 30, 2008 at 12:34 am Mental Health. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
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have no idea. my ex used to have prozac for years. he is bipolar.
June 30th, 2008 at 9:57 amI’m BP too. From everything I’ve read, it really just depends on your body chemistry.
Some people love Lamictal, some hate it. Same with depakote.
Personally, I think you should keep trying to find that “magic cocktail”.
I’ve been successfully medicated for about 4 months now. I take Symbyax (which is insanely expensive) and haven’t felt this good in over a decade.
(Symbyax is Prozac and Zyprexa and they make it in a variety of combinations so it’s easy to “tweak” dosages until you find the right combo.)
If you’re not happy with the Lamictal, then definitely look for an alternative.
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:42 pmi’m on Lamital its doing real good for me but i never heard of the other one.i take all these meds at night time
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:45 pmlamital
zoloft
seroquel
caduet
lyrica
potassium
valium
zetria
coumadin
thars over 500 mgs at night which don’t include daytime
I haven’t tried Depakote, but I’m taking Lamictal. I like Lamictal because I haven’t experienced any side effects. It’s hard to find a bipolar med that doesn’t make you gain weight. Sorry, but I don’t know anything about Depakote.
July 6th, 2008 at 4:19 amHi, I take trileptal which is similar to lamictal. I have had so few side affects on this drug. However, I did try depakote and had a lot of screwy side effects like weight gain and hair loss. Every one is different though. My body is sensitive so maybe yours might not be. I tried lamictal and had really bad runs like, I was literally shitting my pants. I am not even joking. Just mention trileptal to your doc.
July 7th, 2008 at 5:58 amI take those two. I seem to needthem both. I know the side effects are terrible but I get depressed without the limictal and i get anxious and approach anxiety and have trouble sleeping without the depakote — no, i take klonopin not depakote. limitctal and clonazepam is what i taken . i cannot keep my thoughts together as well as i need to. i have been sick. all of this came onme like an avalanche. onset diabetes, fourway bypass, depression that they now insist is bipolar (i think is clearly bpd) my house burned eetc. so many things. i am living in a little ghetto room and have just enough money to get the engine in my car fixed so i can get the hell out of south carolina. no family to speak of and out of friends. hate doctors and the whole damn medical establishment. not sure i need a fourway bypass when house just burned. damn it all came in one year. have constantly thought of suicide until now. kept hanging on and chanting for relief. if they can get that damn engine fixed and i can buy enough gas to make it home to texas, god i will be grateful. what a life it turjned out to be. i was once in pretty good shape. god works in mysterious ways is all that keeps ringing around in my head at times. ins. was invalid on house. left with clothes on my back. no help from any ot those agencies you here about unless you consider a plastic bag of shoddy old clothes and a chair to be enough to survive on. i gave up op them . iasked for one of those extra trailers they had for katerina and the red cross just laughted. they thought i was a very funny guy. i am 64 and expect to live a few more years. odds against me. i got one thing out ofthe house. i love my computer. my only friend. somehow i did that and thank god. my only freind. friendly little light, watch news, read reports, chat and look up stuff. i actually think i have a little brain damage from the heart surgery. cannot remember as well to look things up. gotta get a job. i thoght iwas through. i thought i was retired for good. now? as mel brooks said in one movie “life sucks.”
July 9th, 2008 at 2:00 amI’ve taken both and both did nothing for me.
Depokote is supposed to cause a lot of weight gain, but I didn’t really have a problem with that luckily.
The medications that I’ve had good results with are Geodon and Abilify.
Maybe I don’t cycle enough to notice results with Depakote and Lamictal.
July 9th, 2008 at 10:48 pm