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difficult child husband's and mood disorder medications -- experience?
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<blockquote data-quote="smallworld" data-source="post: 135718" data-attributes="member: 2423"><p>We found that my daughter, who takes Lamictal and Lexapro, was waking up at 3 am and not being able to fall back to sleep once we removed her allergy medication (Zyrtec, which makes her sleepy) after spring allergy season. So we added Zyrtec back in since it's a very benign way to address the sleeping problem. I'm usually not in favor of adding medications to counteract the side effects of other medications, but in this case, the Lamictal/Lexapro combo was so helpful for mood stabilization that her psychiatrist said stick with it. This is all my long way to suggesting that since Lamictal is so helpful in all regards, perhaps the neuro or psychiatrist would be willing to address the sleeping issue in another way.</p><p> </p><p>FWIW, my daughter has small lesions in both temporal lobes, and the neuro she sees agrees that Lamictal is a good fit. She has also trialed Depakote, but we stopped it because it made her irritable and depressed. I don't know what other medications would be good for simple partials.</p><p> </p><p>There's a chance husband's mood issues will be better now that the surgery is over. The symptoms of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy mimic those of Bipolar Disorder. But you won't know for sure unless he tries to go without medications.</p><p> </p><p>Sorry there are no easy answers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smallworld, post: 135718, member: 2423"] We found that my daughter, who takes Lamictal and Lexapro, was waking up at 3 am and not being able to fall back to sleep once we removed her allergy medication (Zyrtec, which makes her sleepy) after spring allergy season. So we added Zyrtec back in since it's a very benign way to address the sleeping problem. I'm usually not in favor of adding medications to counteract the side effects of other medications, but in this case, the Lamictal/Lexapro combo was so helpful for mood stabilization that her psychiatrist said stick with it. This is all my long way to suggesting that since Lamictal is so helpful in all regards, perhaps the neuro or psychiatrist would be willing to address the sleeping issue in another way. FWIW, my daughter has small lesions in both temporal lobes, and the neuro she sees agrees that Lamictal is a good fit. She has also trialed Depakote, but we stopped it because it made her irritable and depressed. I don't know what other medications would be good for simple partials. There's a chance husband's mood issues will be better now that the surgery is over. The symptoms of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy mimic those of Bipolar Disorder. But you won't know for sure unless he tries to go without medications. Sorry there are no easy answers. [/QUOTE]
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