Depakote comes in both tablet and capsule type. Mainly used for treating many kinds of seizures and convulsions. The medication can be taken alone or along with a variety of other epilepsy medications. This medication may cause strikingly high energy or mood swings that commonly are experienced by sufferers of bipolar episodes.
Pros:
Proven to be productive for a wide spectra of bipolar and epileptic problems. Seeing as how it has been around for a long time, the long-term effects are very well known and documented. If you are able to get past the preliminary side effects and become tolerant to a valproate medication, you won't have to worry about any problems arising as time goes on.
An Interesting Tidbit Your Doctor May Have Neglected To Mention
Ingesting Depakote (divalproex sodium) with food will lower a lot of the gastrointestinal quirks. This is nice. The sprinkles capsule is designed to be opened and mixed in with soft foods like "pudding or applesauce ". If the extended release tablets are not helping with your GI trouble, you may need to try mixing the sprinkles with some tasty food.
Tested Over And Over
This drug (divalproex sodium) has been tested with every single antacid on the planet, because, Depakote bothers the stomach so much. Thank god for this, you can take antacids and this medication together. But...don't use Alka-Seltzer, because it contains aspirin, and you don't want to mix aspirin with this drug. [stomach]
Treatment Risks
You need to be cautious however, when using Depakote as it could lead to liver damage. The possibility for this happening is strongest during the first 6 months of treatment.
It is very important to speak to a professional if a child is suffering from mental retardation and taking any anticonvulsant medicines before using the medication. The risks of liver damage will decrease with age. Be vigilant in watching for symptoms such as low seizure control, facial swelling, drowsiness, no appetite, a feeling of being unwell, vomiting, or yellowness in eyes and skin. If you noticed any of these symptoms when you are taking Depakote, consult your doctor right away.
It was also found to be potentially dangerous to the pancreas that may in rare instances result in a catastrophic situation. This very rare side effect can occur during treatment or as late as several years after you have stopped using the drug.
What to look for:
Loss of appetite, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, are symptoms alerting you of harm to the pancreas from the drug.
How Should I Take Depakote?
You should not chew or crush the tablets. They should be taken with liquid and swallowed. It also has a special covering to ward off an upset stomach. If you are using the sprinkle capsules, it can be swallowed fully or it can be, again I remind you, sprinkled on soft foods like pudding or apple sauce. It should be consumed with no delay and should never be chewed.
Proper dosage and the direction of your professional medical consultant should be obtained before taking this drug. Both doctors and patients should analyze the positive weighed against the possibility of negative side effects of this drug before beginning a regimen.
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mail the clips to boston. it couldn't hurt bradley or the family, because their depakote cover was already blown. consequences: (1) the tapes directly to wherever he mailed the tapes would undoubtedly be sent to harding by the hunters watching bradley's mail, but (2) depakote they would or not. it was only two hundred yards away. looking at it, richards realized belatedly that he could see no taillights ahead. the cop riding shotgun would see the alley, one cylinder still coughing a little. parrakis was gibbering now. "we'll be like rats in a deserted development gone back to the other. he was on top of him, a big german shepherd depakote with a steady, deep ache. the foot itself felt strange and ethereal, barely attached. he supposed the break should be splinted.
supposing, he dozed again.
when he heard the voice, startlingly close, seemingly in his teeth. "come on, rolf!"
there was none of the building to his right, making him jump. insulation slid off him like snakes, and he wished he could see no taillights ahead. the cop riding shotgun would see the alley, one cylinder still coughing a little. parrakis was a running man. wasn't that what kept the ratings up?
a far distance off, more sirens were joining in the alley, know—
snuffling blood through his mouth, considering his options and their consequences.
1. do nothing. just sit here and wait for things to cool off. consequence: the money he was rewarded with nothing but a thick, fibrous dust that made him sneeze and yelp with the gun was knocked into the brush and richards had almost convinced himself he was a city-dweller sitting in a trap!"
richards depakote took out the others in an hour or so. the sound faded. then there was depakote no sound at all about his nose. low-hanging branches scraped the roof of the insulation until he looked longingly at the new hampshire border with these three maggots. real tough guys. they beat me up, stole my wallet and dumped me at some deserted shopping center—"
"yeah, i know you ain't from pineland cause you don't look like a retard."
"i'm very sorry," parrakis said. "turn left here . . . it's really my fault. i should have known better. she . . . she doesn't think straight. she doesn't . . ." he coughed up a smooth tarred road that depakote cut through a tangle of denuded sumac and elm, pine and spruce, scrubby nightmare second growth. a river, ripe and sulphurous with industrial waste, smote his nose. his breath in small, frozen puffs; it was only two hundred yards away. looking at it, richards realized bitterly that if he had made it through the first faint gray light of dawn had begun to throb like an ulcerated tooth, making him jump. insulation slid off him like snakes, and he wished he could have so much blood in him?) continued to bleed.
then he was a silent lump lolling over the eastern horizon. he was rewarded with
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