Posted by VIncent_QC on March 26, 2009, at 15:34:01
In reply to Re: Depakote for Anxiety Instead Of Benzos????, posted by Zana on March 26, 2009, at 14:45:12
> I took depakote for a while, a couple of months. It was supposed to have an antidepressant effect. I was taking 1000mgs all at bedtime. Boy did it kill my anxiety. It also made me feel like a zombie and gave me terrible diarreah (sp?). I haven't tried it but I have wondered if a small amount, like 250mgs, would work on my anxiety but I haven't tried it yet. Neurontin, another mood stabilzer, works as well or better than klonopin. If I could just get off the damn klonopin.
> Zana
Hi Zana...I call you Xana in another post ...so sorry ! lolHummm we are all different...You see, me I didn't answer at all to Neurotin (Gabapentin) and the need to pop-up pills every 2 or 3 hours make it hard to take...I was at the maximum dosage and never felt anything from it, no sedation, nothing and I was on 8mg of Rivotril at the same time...I remember that I had only the pins and needles feeling in my hands and my head... I was on it for 3 months at least...
In the UK, they seem to believe a lot into the Lyrica power action for anxiety...I don't believe in it, especially when you already are addicted to benzos drugs like highly addictive Rivotril or Xanax!!!
You know, the same apply to the Buspar...if you already have a benzos med history, the chance that this kind of treatment work on you will decrease a lot!!! I think people who will benefit a lot more from Gaba-b type of meds are the ones who never take a benzo drugs of their life...
It's seem that all the people who take benzos drugs have the same problem...it's call resistance to the drug....addiction...it can occur after 15 years on a benzos drugs...or after 3 months like me...but benzos drugs change something in the brains for sure and it's seem to be not being recover after the drug is stop...
That's my point of view... Lyrica is helpfull to help for insomnia...that's it...on me...maybe not on you...I never feel it has an anxiolitic action...the zombie feeling is very commun with drugs who act on the gaba-b... I still don't know about the depakote...I never took it...The PDoc told me he don'T find mood stabiliser to be effective in social phobia and anxiety problems...that his point of view...not mine...anyway...who know...
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