Posted by Ritch on December 29, 2002, at 16:47:47
In reply to Re: Depakote for refractory panic? » Ritch, posted by Jackster on December 29, 2002, at 15:22:19
Hi, I actually remembered. I have had strings of panic attacks in the past and any posts about panic catches my eye and it gets burned into my memory easily. I found Buspar to work well with SSRI's. I hope it helps with your panic probs. Depakote and the hairloss thing.. Well, I've never noticed any taking between 125mg-500mg/day. I noticed quite a bit of weight gain however at 500mg. I like clonazepam mainly because it is cheap! My pdoc was wanting to substitite Gabitril for clonazepam but at a lower dose than what I have tried in the past, but that stuff is expensive. Hey, there's another idea for you (Gabitril). You might get a lot of cognitive dysfunction with it however (but it is dose related).
good luck,
Mitch
> Hi Mitch
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> Wow you have a good memory! (or you did a search ;)
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> yeah - the tegretol worked a bit - but not enough. Am now on Paxil 60mg and 15mg buspar. Have only been on the buspar 2 weeks - so it might be enough to kick start the paxil. Otherwise the doc has suggested depakote to augment. (Have read horror stories about hair falling out etc though) I have tried klonopin and it does work well - but in the complete opposite to everyone here - my doc wants me to take it but I don't want to be reliant on benzos. I feel like referring all the people on this board with benzophobe docs to my doc - but NZ might be a little to far to travel even for a good doc. ; )
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> cheers
> Jackie
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