Posted by phidippus on October 20, 2014, at 19:54:55
In reply to Trileptal for Anxiety?, posted by BusuB on October 7, 2014, at 10:36:04
>All of the AD's cause a lot of inner restlessness that doesn't go away.
This is called akathisia. You can stop the drug causing it or you can take something like propanalol, cogentine, amantadine or artane to treat it. Benzos don't do a very good job of treating akathisia.
I found Trileptal worsened my anxiety, as most sodium channel blockers do. Anticonvulsants that do help anxiety include Neurontin, Tiagabine, Keppra, Lyrica and Depakote to some extent.
Eric
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