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Depakote, Behaviors, and personality
Mon, 02/11/2008 - 19:22Topic: Medication Issues
My 7 year old daughter was diagnosed with Epilepsy a year ago this coming April. She has been on Depakote since the beginning. It seems to be doing very well at controlling the seizures, but she has become a whole different child. It breaks my heart, and every day seems to get a little bit worse. She is regressing academicaly, socially, and emotionally. Her neuro seems to think it is all "behavior issues". He doesn't want to change the meds but has mentioned it a couple of times. He seems to think she will be like this no matter what we put her on. I want my little girl back. Anybody else struggling with this?
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Re: Depakote, Behaviors, and personality
Submitted by debs-escape on Fri, 2008-11-07 - 16:51
Yes, I have a bipolar disorder. I feel depakote doesn't work to well for me. My moods escalated after being on it for a 1 1/2 yrs. My son takes tegretal for his mood disorder and he couldn't live w/o it.
Re: Depakote, Behaviors, and personality
Submitted by dgrish14 on Wed, 2008-12-10 - 11:05
Hi, my four year old son just started having seizures a few weeks ago and was admitted to the hospital and the EEG confirmed three types: absence, atonic, myoclonic. He also has Angelman Syndrome, which makes things more difficult because he doesn't talk and can't tell me how he's feeling. But the neuro started him on Depakote and it took the seizures away within a few days but now his behavior is out of control! He is biting, hiting, pinching and will not listen to me when I ask him to do things. He's so restless and is extremely sensitive as well. He's normally such a sweet kid (with the occasional behavior problem) but now it's a constant battle. I'm really grateful for all the input here because I was wondering if this was just the way things were going to be. The neuro we got at the hospital didn't have an available appointment until June of '09! So we switched and are seeing a new one next week. I think I'll be pushing for a new med. Does anyone have success with other meds in a similiar situation?
Re: Depakote, Behaviors, and personality
Submitted by debs-escape on Fri, 2008-11-07 - 16:51
Yes, I have a bipolar disorder. I feel depakote doesn't work to well for me. My moods escalated after being on it for a 1 1/2 yrs. My son takes tegretal for his mood disorder and he couldn't live w/o it.