Posted by greywolf on April 4, 2006, at 20:48:01
In reply to Re: Does Depakote have stabilizing FX below 750mg/day? » greywolf, posted by blueberry on April 4, 2006, at 20:05:16
> 500mg Depakote Extended Release stabilized my mood which was mixed anxiety or dysphoric mania and depression beginning the first day. I never needed more. Druggedness and fogginess caused me to eventually stop it. I still had some mood swings during the day, but they were much tamer, and I really believe they were (and still are) caused by something else in my body that is not at all psychiatric related. So I doubt any dose of any mood stabilizer would completely work for me. But to really tame things down a lot, yeah, 500mg did it.
I experience some stabilizing effect at 750mg, but not very much. The problem I have is that I'm in a high stress occupation requiring regular exposure to circumstances that can drive anxiety levels sky high. Unfortunately, Xanax is not much help in those situations because I have to have my full faculties or I'm not much use in the job.
I was hoping that reducing Depakote to 500mg/day would allow me to have some stabilization while augmenting it with Xanax at 2mg/day (fairly low from what I've been told here). I'm just not sure it's worth the effort, if you know what I mean.
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