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Nov 7, 2007, 05:53 PM
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| | | Staying on your prescribed medications,for good or ill. How do we,who need to take medications daily,stay compliant,(take them as prescribed) and why do we go off them, knowing the results if we do. | | | | | | |
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Nov 9, 2007, 08:34 AM
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Pay to call J_9 for advice ($.75/min) | Are you involved with NAMI? |
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Nov 9, 2007, 08:46 AM
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| Had a meeting yesterday with them, yes. |
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Nov 9, 2007, 09:01 AM
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Pay to call J_9 for advice ($.75/min) | Good, I found one in your area, I was going to give you the #, but if you met with them, then you are on the right track.
Now, your weight? I would like to calculate your dosage to see if you are in the correct therapeutic range. |
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Nov 9, 2007, 09:04 AM
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| just had my valporic acid level tested 2 weeks ago, I am within the therapeutic range(don't remember the actual numbers, but it was somewhere in the middle of the scale.) |
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Nov 9, 2007, 09:04 AM
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| any way, I am 6'1" 230 lbs |
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Nov 9, 2007, 09:08 AM
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Pay to call J_9 for advice ($.75/min) | Thanks. You are indeed on the max dosage. Are you taking it all at once or twice a day? You should be taking 750mg twice a day.
You say the Celexa was decreased due to mania. Has your mania gotten better or worse since the decrease? |
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Nov 9, 2007, 09:12 AM
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| actually the mania is close to the same, maybe a little less.
the depakote is once nightly,being ER tabs, it does take time to disburse and testing was 12 hours after last dosage. |
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Nov 9, 2007, 09:17 AM
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Pay to call J_9 for advice ($.75/min) | Sorry, I forgot it was the ER. Although my text says that Divalproex sodium (depakote, Depakote ER, Epival) should be given by mouth 750 mg in divided doses.
It may do you good to call your pharmacy and have a consultation with the pharmacist to get his opinion on your particular symptoms and dosage. |
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Nov 9, 2007, 09:19 AM
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| pharmacist,not the psyche?
Ok, I have never done that.
thanks J  |
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Nov 9, 2007, 09:21 AM
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Pay to call J_9 for advice ($.75/min) | The pharmacist is a GREAT resource for drug information. It was the pharmacist who taught my father how to recognize his symptoms, whether being manic or depressed, and how to alter his medication dosage and times of day in which it was to be taken.
While the psych docs are pretty good with meds, meds are the ONLY things the pharmacists do. |
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