taking depakote and smoking weed

Guest over a year ago

hi i'm no doc but my psych doc told me to ease off over a period of months while starting depakote because of how long i've been smoking(over 10 years). She said to quit cold turkey i'd probably be setting myself up for failure.

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Guest over a year ago

I smoke an 8th a day of high grade. And take opiates on a regular basis (2-3 times a day). 3 days out of weed. Feeling like utter sh*t. Not sure if I can do it!

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Melissa over a year ago

I have been smoking medicinally for almost ten years and take depakene liquid. No interactions between the two drugs. Have a great day

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Guest over a year ago

I take 1500 MG of depakote daily. I do not suffer from seizures. The combination of marijuana and depakote itself from my personal experience of about two years of daily smoking is the two are perfectly safe together. I take depakote because I am bipolar

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Guest over a year ago

This is not sound logic. People have the tendency to assume a causal relationship between to events because one happens with another. There may be other influences which are the cause of both. You would have to have some evidence for that and you have provided none. Take a visit to a creationist museum and see if they have poor grammar.

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Guest over a year ago

Since valproic acid and marijuana access the same resepters in the brain but in two separate ways they actually do not conflict with each other. In fact in,colorado many people who suffer from medication resistant epilepsy have half their meds knocked out due to marijuana actually aiding.

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Guest over a year ago

So true,just be on safe side, check with doctor, could effect everyone different , with theses.

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Guest over a year ago

Dude it gave me a seizure I was on it for manic bipolar. I hope you get this do not smoke weed on that medicine dude. My mom has seizures so it runs in my blood but I have never had one until I smoked weed on 500mg of that sh*t. I stopped taking it which was stupid because it did actually help me. But I was a pot head sooo...honestly weed is bad all together. People will say what they want but if you have to do a drug to be "happy," or have "fun," then you're depressed and need to seek other safer routes.

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Guest over a year ago

Marijauna lessens the effectiveness of your medication. Your brain has receptors. The THC hogs these and blocks the depakote. Despite popular urban myths, marijauna is very harmful to physical & mental health.
Ask any doctor, it's not a conspiracy for big pharmacy profits. Marijauna is not a good medicine because it grows from the Earth.
Do any online research about Marijuana and mental health.
And again, your depakote isn't doing anything, getting blocked by all that THC.
Especially a mere 200mg.
Most people on depakote start around 1,000 to 2,000mg.

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Guest over a year ago

I have Temporal lobe epilepsy and when I smoked weed 25 years ago, it just made me have more seizures do to me taking different medications then Depakote. I was taking Tegratol but now I'm on Depakote-1500mg 3x a day and Keppra-750mgs 2 times a day. Just last week, I heard from my brother that weed, high in CBS is good for seizures. But, I took 6 hits of this high, high level THC and Cannabis and had to go to the hospital within minutes. Do not take medical weed very high in THC. I thought I was having a stroke. It took them 3 hours to lower my heart rate but it took 4 days for all that THC in get out of me and back to normal. The Cannabis weed is being tested to replace Depakote. I hate the side effects of Depakote like depression, anger, anxiety. Cannabis has not be approved by the FDA. It will take like 3 more years to really know the true results and side effects of it. Will see. I really feel like myself now not even smoking any weed.

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Guest over a year ago

With my HIV im on DIVALPROEX and ABILIFY for all the mind issues and i have not been on long but i know that the weed helps me sleep and eat, and for me thats a good thing

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Guest over a year ago

Weed does not make people stupid, also you spelled stupid wrong... I smoke every day and I got As both semesters in chemistry while high, also Bs both semesters in physics. I graduated no problem and I smoked pot every day and experimented with many other substances to blame the substances is irrational and immature, especially if you haven't experienced them yourself. I got a b and then a b+ in AP environmental science while high in class. The high of weed increased my interest in class and my drive to learn and be a better student and person overall. I passed high school with flying colors smoking pot every day so maybe you should rethink your logic. Thanks for reading and have a good day.

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Guest over a year ago

I had the hair loss first 5 months on the med later on it is gone i am fine now, i also gained some wieght but it also gone

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Guest over a year ago

You HIT a blunt and RIP a bong you obviously dont smoke lmao

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Guest over a year ago

I quit smoking weed for months and just recently started again last week I couldn't get a hold of my depakote because problems with my insurance and went 10 days without my depakotr I take 500mg 2× a day and was actually pretty good I didn't have a seizure I've been seizure free 7 months and3 of those months I've been on marijuana but id love to replace depakote with marijuana doctors please hurry o and pls legalize in tx

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