Depending on a whole host of variables — including weed quality, amount taken, your metabolism, your anxiety level, and others — you may either progress through being high into being stoned, or you may skip being high altogether and go directly to being stoned. It helped within a week but made me really sleepy. But otherwise I’d still be on it.Trileptal changed my life for the better. I just started taking oxcarbaxepine (trileptal) on Thursday, so today is day 6. It's kind of like a nice morphine buzz. Plus, my judgement seems a little more conservative and I'm not wanting to buy everything in sight. Trileptal can knock you out while you're getting used to it and I wasn't able to be on So much sleeping.

The stuff has been life changing. I'm sure you know the drill.I'll have to post a pic of my pill case that a friend got for me sometime. I'm going to do some research myself, but I'd like to know what your experience is with Trileptal. It's good stuff though, glad it's helping you! my guess is he expects tapering off lithium to induce some mania.

My new insurance wouldn’t accept it as a treatment for bipolar so I had to switch meds. im not going to much but if i want my options are now open. I'm still hypomanic, but it's taken off or lessened all the unpleasant parts.

Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcutsCookies help us deliver our Services. I couldn't even walk.EDIT: My new doc said I should have been taking it with a large meal to help with the nausea. Many people dealing with high-functioning depression have a desire to feel better and be more engaged and connected in their lives, according to Kost. Literally my chill pill holder lol.New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be castA Reddit to share information about who you are, how you think, and what helps you cope in life.Press J to jump to the feed. I feel like I have all the time in the world and everything that usually would take me all day is just a few minutes of pleasant work. I can't put people at risk with my failure to maintain a lane and poor speed control.

I still have a sex drive (yay), and I want to look good. my experience is it does that well. Trileptal did nothing for me. it wasn't what I needed. I’ve gained about 10 lbs in a year. same as i take. It does make you very sleepy. I'm super happy to hear it's doing you so much good!hey idk what your birth control situation is but my doctor took me off that because it degrades BC processed through the liver (hormonal)Mirena IUD plus infertility struggles on top of that. Then he was to tapper me off the lithium.Trileptal is used to supplement my other mood stabilizer, Topomax.I've always had trouble with sleep so I'm always tired.

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I usually spend my hypomanic times enraged and stressed to the detriment of my kids and husband.

So far, I've had no side effects besides that sedation. I do recall randomly feeling high, and slightly sluggish but other than that it was super helpful.

I'm not sure it helped any.

His normal dose was the usual 200 mg. I was around 2000 mg it was like tic tacs. I really need a good kick in the butt and it wasn't that for me. A user on Reddit posted about his experience with high doses of modafinil as he tried to chase a high.

In contrast to being high, getting stoned will make you feel blissfully relaxed, calm, and lethargic. My side effects were so bad I had to come off of it.I did the opposite. However, mustering up the energy to seek help can be extremely difficult when you’ve been pretending all day ― despite a constantly low mood and little motivation to complete tasks. 3 weeks later (now) I'm super hypo manic and bounce off the walls. So my pdoc increased my levothyroxin by .5mg. I'm not sure it helped any. I was on 300mg. I called in today because I didn't want to make the hour commute. So I take at night.