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Re: Depakote questions » Collete

Posted by Ted on August 14, 2001, at 10:26:25

In reply to Re: Depakote questions » paxvox, posted by Collete on August 14, 2001, at 9:52:36

Collette & paxvox,

I was just reading at the Abbott Labs website and found out their reasons for Depakote ER: So that a lower dose can be administered to migraine headache sufferers and have it maintain its effects longer.

Just fyi.

Ted


> > > > > I don't know, MC, but that is one reason i poo pooed it when my Pdoc gave it to me. I take an aspirin a night for heart disease and stroke prevention, and do not want to give that up, also, it made me SO groggy during the following day that I felt like a zombie. I tried it for a week , then said "hell with this!" Back to my Pdoc on Tues. I am going to tell him no way I'm taking that crap! Too many side effects
> > > for "just" a sleep aid, especially when the
> > > benzos had worked for me.
> > >
> > > How many mg did your doc perscribe for "just sleep"? So far, I am just at 250mg and it doesn't do anything at all. Collette
> >
> > It was the 500 mg ER version.
> >
> > PAX
>
> Well, if for some reason you & your pdoc decide to stay with Depakote, perhaps switching to the NOT ER version will help you in the AM. I am always drowsy in the AM, but I take so much stuff to sleep )& wake up in the middle of the night anyway for about two hours), that it's hard to know WHAT is causing the drowsyness.


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