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Weaning of depakote and starting topamax
Sun, 10/18/2015 - 14:12I am now weaning of depakote and starting on topamax (am also on lamictal). I have no gone down from 1050 mg to 600 in the last 2 weeks and I am starting to get withdrawal symptoms. I think it is from the depakote. It is like when I stopped smoking years ago. Could this be it? Or is it because of me starting topamax thursday? Ahhh, what a nightmare! Fed up with all these medicines!
It could be a combination of
Submitted by just_joe on Sun, 2015-10-18 - 15:34
It could be a combination of both.Once a person takes his last pill of a medication does not mean they no longer have the medicine in their body. I was in a study for a new medication for epilepsy. When it was over about 6 weeks after that I started having a few more seizures then I had been having, I thought it might have been the generic so I did research and set up an appt. While talking to doc and him listening I said I thought it might have been the generic, He excused himself and a couple of minutes later he came back in and we talked again. It wasn't the generic. It takes 6-8 weeks for a medication like an AED to get completely out of your system. SO we added another medication and I am back to having a focal seizure every 8-14 days.Remember hearing about the side effects of medications? Time frame is also like that posted above. So they are lowering one and putting yo on another. You have 2 medications one at a lower rate because you are being put on it. The other is still being lowered and some of the medication could still be at a higher therapeutic level. It just takes time for them to get where the neurologist wants them.You might call and ask his assistant questions. But I have had my meds changes many different times and I do know what can happen.