Posted by Nickengland on May 20, 2005, at 5:22:49
In reply to Re: stresser » Nickengland, posted by Phillipa on May 19, 2005, at 19:10:57
Generally the main use of Trileptal in mood disorders will be given to prevent mania, even that use is "off license" Seeing as its so similar to Tegretol it makes sense to use it for a mood stabiliser/anti manic though.
If you have no problems with your mood going "up" then there would be no need really to use this med.
However you use benzo's for sleep? Because of the risks they can have with regards to loosing their effectiveness...possibly meaning they are not working so well for sleep as they should - Taking the trileptal although its not a sleeping tablet, it sure does promote sleep. So maybe he gave it to you for like a safety barrier measure against if your benzos were to reduce in effectiveness?
I have read somewhere aswell that carbamazepine/tegretol is sometimes used when trying to come off of benzos, to help with withdrawal symptoms. So there seems to be a link somewhere there.
If you found that the oxcarbazepine/trilepal didnt work so well for sleep and you still feel you need something........I defiantely suggest you try Tegretol/carbamazepine as ive tried both and found the tegretol seems to have more power..i.e it will be like 10x better with regards to sleep.
Its kind of like Marlborough and Marlborough Lights....with trileptal being the light version you know? lol
Hope that makes sense :-)
Kind regards
Nick
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