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<blockquote data-quote="gcvmom" data-source="post: 191682" data-attributes="member: 3444"><p>Susie, sorry for the mental mixup! I've read about the cold/flu-like side effects of some of these medications. I'm glad the Keppra is working for her -- it's a fairly new drug isn't it?</p><p> </p><p>Crazymomma -- husband's mood symptoms before Lamictal were definitely depressive. He was constantly irritable, sometimes explosive. Our psychiatrist he saw for ADHD a loooong time ago commented that whenever he saw husband he looked like he was always in fight mode. He was confrontational, oppositional. He had a very low frustration tolerance and was extremely impatient. He slept a lot and went through long periods where he just did not do much of anything around the house. He would just come home from work and go upstairs to watch TV. We hardly saw him in the evenings. He also had very definite obsessional qualities. He would get stuck on some of these obsessions. He had lousy, lousy impulse control, and when he got mad, he would stay mad for a long time. He would sometimes get this feral look in his eyes like a switch was turned on in his head. I distinctly remember a time in Vegas when he got mad at me over something that started out trivial and it was just a rapid spiral downwards after that. He just kept pulling money out of his wallet and feeding to the slot machine until his wallet was empty. He could not stop himself.</p><p> </p><p>Anyway, you can understand why I do NOT want to go back to the way things were before. His stability has made a huge difference in our marriage and our family, even if he doesn't fully recognize it!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gcvmom, post: 191682, member: 3444"] Susie, sorry for the mental mixup! I've read about the cold/flu-like side effects of some of these medications. I'm glad the Keppra is working for her -- it's a fairly new drug isn't it? Crazymomma -- husband's mood symptoms before Lamictal were definitely depressive. He was constantly irritable, sometimes explosive. Our psychiatrist he saw for ADHD a loooong time ago commented that whenever he saw husband he looked like he was always in fight mode. He was confrontational, oppositional. He had a very low frustration tolerance and was extremely impatient. He slept a lot and went through long periods where he just did not do much of anything around the house. He would just come home from work and go upstairs to watch TV. We hardly saw him in the evenings. He also had very definite obsessional qualities. He would get stuck on some of these obsessions. He had lousy, lousy impulse control, and when he got mad, he would stay mad for a long time. He would sometimes get this feral look in his eyes like a switch was turned on in his head. I distinctly remember a time in Vegas when he got mad at me over something that started out trivial and it was just a rapid spiral downwards after that. He just kept pulling money out of his wallet and feeding to the slot machine until his wallet was empty. He could not stop himself. Anyway, you can understand why I do NOT want to go back to the way things were before. His stability has made a huge difference in our marriage and our family, even if he doesn't fully recognize it! [/QUOTE]
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