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Re: Trileptal Causing Kidney Pains/Discomfort?????????

Posted by Nickengland on May 3, 2005, at 16:06:24

In reply to Re: Trileptal Causing Kidney Pains/Discomfort????????? » Nickengland, posted by SLS on May 3, 2005, at 9:33:12

Hello Scott

I suffer from bipolar too so I know how you feel about wanting it to work for the depression side of things. I am recovering from a severe depression myself but am over the worst of it now.

I don't feel that the Trileptal has strong anti-depressant qualities to it, but bearing in mind anti-depressants can be tricky when given to people for bipolar, I think this is a good thing. I have mostly found SSRI's etc to be useless overall for my treatment of depression and I won't go near them at all now and even lamotrigine for depression. But thats me, and I guess everyone is different.

For me personally I definately feel it has helped for depression. My psychiatirst usually gives me low doses of medication and I feel this effect from just 300mg a day. I don't think that it has a dramatic effect on making you feel very happy, but it has helped me. Compared to other mood stabilsers I have tried whilst in depression at low doses, i.e lithium, the anti-manic effect was too strong and made my depression worse.

The other ways which im benefiting from Trileptal I think, indirecting are helping me with the depression too. My anxiety level seems to be much better and anxiety is a big problem for me. Also I get off to sleep fine and sleep soundly for a good 7 - 8 hours and awake without feeling too drowsy or a druged up feel if you know what I mean. I don't feel to much drowsyness in the day either.

I am lucky in some respects to the intial side effects of this medication as I made the switch to this straight from Tegretol/carbamazepine. So I think managed to avoid the common dizzyness, sickness etc... If you've just started Trileptal and your experiencing this sife effects (I did with the Tegretol) then you should find they greatly reduce/disappear after a couple of week then you can see more of the benefits.

I hope this is helpful and hopefully your get some benefits with regards to your depression from Trileptal : )

How long have you been taking it and hows it going so far?

Kind Regards

Nick


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