Depakote (Divalproex Sodium)

I have to take 500mg twice a day and my liver is in total pain. Talk about fatigue… im always super tired and i gained 90 pounds. This is ridiculous. I didnt go to work last 2 days cauz i waz too tired. My doctor gave me ativan with it now cauz i was tired. huh what happens if i stop all this sh1t

i was on the depakote ER (extended release) and it was pure hell!! i gained about 60 pounds, constant migraines and severe headaches, FATIGUE is an understatment, you cant concentrate, you feel like you have been ran over by a truck!! Its better to live with the seizures!

i know this is gross but, does anybody poop out the entire pill the next day? it seems most of the pill is not being digested.

i agree i have been taking this for 16 years and i cannot imagine how my liver must look. besides that i remember having a lot of stomach aches as a kid when i started this. just legalize the mary jane medicine already.

drug and after explaining to them what happened, they advised me to NOT give my son any more depakote that even at a lower dose can produce the same after effects, and their concern was that with the vomiting, he could very well bring up the Keppra too which is the drug that has controlled the seizures. Oh, and when I did ask the doctor what were the side effects of this drug before my son started taking it, he said ONLY A LITTLE FATIGUE! Please people, do NOT take this drug!

since then, but we switched doctors because the one we had refused to give him an EEG. The new doc set him up for tests and then put him on Depakote 500 mg three times a day in addition to the 3000g of Keppra. We tried to tell him that the only reason my son was having so many seizures was because he was in denial and did not take the Keppra as perscribed but now is doing so as well as not drinking, doing drugs and because careful when working out. My son was on the Depakote for 6 days, and

Tell that to the subject of the following case study:

Epilepsia. 1999 Apr;40(4). Male infertility: possible association with valproate exposure.
Man on valproate monotherapy failed to have kids after 4 years unprotected, then 4 months after cessation of valproate, “A seminal analysis revealed a sperm count of > 16 million, 50% motility, 78% viability, and 72% with abnormal structure.”

72% abnormal structure…pseudoscience. Believe what you will, but this is truth you should be ready for.

Anti depressants(Prozac, Celexa ,Effexor), mood stabilizers(Lithium, Depakote) and Anti-psychotics( Geodon, Haldol) effect your majorly. If you just have anxiety just take benzodiazepines for short period of time. Those highly marketed drugs are just as bad as controlled substances. I actually got withdrawals from Depakote and Geodon.

Depakote caused me to gain 50 lbs in less than six months. I later found out that I wasn’t even Bi Polar.The Dr. was Just trying to push an expensive medicine because of the kickbacks he would get.

depakote works after between 2 weeks or 2/3 months ,on me 2 weeks

Don’t take it. I gained 50 lbs in 6 months. Doctors have lobbyist kind of like the governments lobbyist. They get kickbacks for pushing medications . You most likely don’t even need it. The Doctor gets paid to sell it.

I agree, I hate the way it makes me feel. Especially in my stomach.

do you must control your blood if you take depakote?