Posted by Notaliseliz on July 6, 2004, at 14:54:34
Hi, I've been on trileptal for almost a month, up to 600 mg a day, and the doc wants me to do 900 mg. I started taking paxil along with it yesterday, 20 mg last night and 20 this am.
I have one of the "uncommon" side effect listed on the drug pamphlet--YAWNING.
It gets worse when I'm driving, for some reason. My jaw hurts 'cause I yawned so much today!And I'm nauseaus (SP?) and since I started the trileptal everything smells FUNKY and turns my stomach. I need to lose weight so that's kinda ok for me, but it's making me sick. I swear I can smell the mold in the walls. I've been smelling it for weeks and my husband finally said yesterday he smelled something too.
I was taking another SSRI bthat I stopped in the first few days of taking the trileptal because I was convinced the two together were aggravationg the yawning. I then went on to start very aggressive, MEAN, nasty behavior, lashing out at complete strangers in the store, not to mention what I did at home.
Oh, and I read another few posts that talked about racing heart--mine was JUMPING out of my chest, not only racing, but totally irregular. It's not as bad now, but it still happens, and I'm sure it will get bad when I up my dose tomorrow.
Oh yeah, and I have bubbly ears. Like I talk and there's air in my head. (I'm not and airhead.) LOL
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