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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 443419" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I sincerely hope this is not as a mood stabilizer. It was marketed as a mood stabilizer years ago but the company KNEW that it was NOT effective at stabilizing moods. Millions of people took it for mood issues and at best it had no effect, at worst it had bad side effects. There was a HUGE lawsuit and settlement over this, and the company had to tell a lot of psychiatrists and docs that it was NOT a mood stabilizer. Some docs STILL insist that it works, but the science shows that it really doesn't. The company did this purely to increase profits and keep it from going generic. Each time you find a "new" disorder it treats you patent is extended. They even admitted to giving the FDA falsified records and studies showing it worked on mood cycling when they knew ti didn't. They just made so much profit off of those extra years of protected status that it was worth it - they didn't have to give back all the profits from those years, just the settlement amount, so their risk was "worth it" from their point of view. Or so it seems.</p><p></p><p>It is effective at other things, and I am pretty sure seizures are one of them. But it will NOT help bipolar disorder in any way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 443419, member: 1233"] I sincerely hope this is not as a mood stabilizer. It was marketed as a mood stabilizer years ago but the company KNEW that it was NOT effective at stabilizing moods. Millions of people took it for mood issues and at best it had no effect, at worst it had bad side effects. There was a HUGE lawsuit and settlement over this, and the company had to tell a lot of psychiatrists and docs that it was NOT a mood stabilizer. Some docs STILL insist that it works, but the science shows that it really doesn't. The company did this purely to increase profits and keep it from going generic. Each time you find a "new" disorder it treats you patent is extended. They even admitted to giving the FDA falsified records and studies showing it worked on mood cycling when they knew ti didn't. They just made so much profit off of those extra years of protected status that it was worth it - they didn't have to give back all the profits from those years, just the settlement amount, so their risk was "worth it" from their point of view. Or so it seems. It is effective at other things, and I am pretty sure seizures are one of them. But it will NOT help bipolar disorder in any way. [/QUOTE]
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