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noisylights in bipolarsurvival

Zinc

Aug 10, 2009 14:15

I'm on a hefty dose of the evil Depakote, and it's been making my hair fall out in clumps lately. So, I've been taking Selenium and Zinc every day to save my hair. I take them at the recommended doses: 50mg zinc and 200mcg selenium. Anyway, these tablets are terrible. They make me shudder on the way down, and then I have to sit on the bathroom ( Read more... )

side effects, wellbutrin, epival, depakote

Comments 7

unico_love August 10 2009, 17:41:53 UTC

I have no idea what's causing your problem, but Wellbutrin made me vomit violently.

noisylights August 10 2009, 22:25:38 UTC

Yeah, the Wellbutrin definitely gives me more side effects, but I only got nausea when I started taking the supplements... weird, right?

becoming_rachel August 10 2009, 22:21:29 UTC

I threw up several times after having my Depakote doseage increased. I'm no longer on it, the drug was awful for me: I gained 30 lbs in a couple months and was constantly starving and tired. The benefits just didn't overweigh the sideeffects..maybe you could talk to your doc about your meds and see what happens/what they recommend.

noisylights August 10 2009, 22:26:32 UTC

I've been on the 1000mg of Depakote for a few months now, so I doubt it's that. Luckily, Wellbutrin makes it so I barely even feel hunger, so I'm not having as much trouble with the weight gain.

lavinia_short August 10 2009, 23:17:27 UTC

are you taking them on an empty stomach? if i so much as take a multivitamin on an empty stomach i feel sick.

do they taste bad? (that always gets me too)

noisylights August 10 2009, 23:56:06 UTC

It's definitely WAY worse if I take them on an empty stomach, so now I always make sure to take them right after I eat breakfast. It makes the nausea a little less awful.
They taste terrible, yeah. I pretty much have to talk myself into taking them, hah.

xhabitualshine August 11 2009, 05:00:02 UTC

I'm on a relatively high dose of Depakote too, and my hairs thinned considerably. I was on the old person vitamin, sentrum silver. They were actually bigger than my 750 Depakotes, which I refer to as my horse pills. Always got stuck in my throat and everything. I choked up a lot of them, but I don't think I got nauseous? I stopped taking them, because I had about 5 bigger pills, and it was just too much for me to coax myself into taking every night. I've stubbornly decided to go bald =[