Depakote, Behaviors, and personality

My son had a major personality change on Lamictal.  With each dose increase he became increasingly aggressive and angry...not like himself at all.  I continued to call his Neurologist's office and their reply was always the same "Well, that's not typical of Lamictal. Lets get him to therapeutic level and see what happens."  So we kept waiting, and increasing, and my son kept getting worse.  After some terrifying events, my son ended up in the hospital "detoxing" from the lamictal.  It was the hardest thing we've ever been through...and all along the Neurologists continued to say "It wasn't the Lamictal"!  Even as my son got better with each day he was off the med!  Oh, I could go on and on with our nightmare, but what I learned was this... Every person reacts differently to every drug...period...whether it's "typical" or not.  You know your daughter best and if your Neurologist is not listening to you, then find another one.  It took a couple of tries before we found a Neurologist who really listened to us, and didn't want to just put our son in a "box" with everyone else.   It's a very difficult and scary time, but you just have to keep moving forward.  My son is now on Topamax and is his old sweet, sensitive, funny self...but it took quite a while to get back to this point!  It breaks my heart to read your words because I've been there...but you will get through it! One more thing, we did find a very good counselor for our son to help him with everything he had been through, and it has been such a blessing for him, and for us!  Our son is 12 and his counselor continues to help him deal with having E as well as other things, so that may be a possibilty too.  Go with your gut!