Depakote and Luvox relieves me entirely of depression.Took years of
frustration to find this solution.Just a new life now.

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From: St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Jane E. Herman
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 9:28 PM
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Subject: Re: CP - Cured ?


Robin:

I just saw your emails.  Something similar sounding happened to my daughter
two years ago.  She is 24 now and quadreplegic.  She had been away at
college
for three weeks when she became very manic, very delusional and also
terrified.  She had been taking Paxil for four weeks at the time.  The
doctors thought that taking her off Paxil would cure the problem.  It
didn't.
 It took us a year ( of pure hell) to find a doctor who understood her
problem.  We were told independently by a neurologist and a
neuropsychiatrist
that it was either a reaction to the Paxil or a reaction to stress.  In
either event, she is now on depakote (although she has never had seizures)
and serequel.  They seem to be doing the trick, although it took some time
to
get the dosages right.  In the past year she has come a long way and is now
back in college (although living at home this time) and doing quite well.
On
those occasions when someone has forgotten to give her a dose of her
medications the symptoms have returned (although mainly the mania and not
sleeping leading into a lot of giggling) and it has taken a week or two to
get her back.  I don't know if this is the same thing, but I would certainly
ask about depakote.  I'm not happy that she is on so much medication, but am
so very grateful to have her back that I can live with the medications
(although I hope that sometime in the future she will be able to cut back).
Her neuropsychiatrist has said something like her internal clock being
thrown
off and speeding things up in her brain... he is hopeful that someday it
will
be able to regulate itself again.

If you want to talk more about this, please feel free to email me at
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Jane