Valproate Sodium Treatment Report
See also: Depakote ER, Depakote Sprinkles, Divalproex sodium, Epival, Novo-Divalproex, Ratio-Valproic, Valproic Acid
What is Valproate Sodium?
Sodium valproate or valproate sodium is the sodium salt of valproic acid and is an anticonvulsant used in the treatment of epilepsy and bipolar disorder, as well as other psychiatric conditions requiring the administration of a mood stabilizer.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Bipolar Disorder | 10 |
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6 | |
| Treat my mood condition(s) | 8 |
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3 | ||||
| Other | 5 |
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1 | ||||
| Anxiety | 2 |
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1 | ||||
| Anxiety and Panic attacks | 1 | 0 | |||||
| Epilepsy | 1 | 0 |
See all 25 patients currently taking Valproate Sodium
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Valproate Sodium. See all 13 dosages ►
Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Did not seem to work
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6 | 67% |
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Doctor's advice
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3 | 33% |
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Side effects too severe
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3 | 33% |
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Other
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2 | 22% |
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Patient Evaluations
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- Timas
- Sex: M
- Depression: 1
- Emotional: 1
- Compulsion: 1
- Anxiety: 1
- Mania: 0
- Physical: 0
- External Stress: Moderate
- 28 M
- Function: High
- Distress: Low
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- Timas
- 500 mg daily
- since Jan 02, 2009
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Bipolar Disorder
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips "Depakine" was effective when I had mania period. Yet constant use of it is more of a prevention against mania or other mood swings. It hadn't had any effect... See full evaluation
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Report created on November 21, 2009.