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(Message started by: eyhavhedaches on Feb 12^th, 2004, 6:12pm)

Title: Depakote
Post by eyhavhedaches on Feb 12^th, 2004, 6:12pm

Any one Having any luck with depakote if so how many mg's u taking, are you or have you experianced hair loss??? What did you take in place of depakote how is it working?

Title: Re: Depakote
Post by Prense on Feb 12^th, 2004, 6:58pm

No @ 1000mg/day

Already bald! ;;D

Chris

Title: Re: Depakote
Post by PatFan on Feb 13^th, 2004, 3:38pm

No luck for me at 1000mg a day either....tried it for 3 weeks....headaches got worse. My wife is on it though as an ant-siezure drug... at 1000mg a day, she experienced hair loss, she is now on 500 a day and added topomax to the mix and the hair loss has stopped. I switched to Verapapamil 480 a day and it works great for me.

Title: Re: Depakote
Post by Yos on Feb 13^th, 2004, 3:51pm

I have had pretty decent luck with it. I used to get good results with 250mg twice a day, but this year's cycle seemed to require a boost. It took 500mg twice a day to kick it.

I was already loosing my hair, and didn't notice any increase.

My only side effect is it seems to have effected my concentration and speed of recollection somewhat, especially when first upping the dose. Worth it though since it seems to help with all but the worst part of the cycle. I still need imitrex then up to several times a day.

Good luck!