I just took a dose again. I had been taking Tripletpal for a couple of years and just tried to quit on my own. I am nowhere near my psychiatrist so I tried to … well, just stop.
This hasn’t worked out very well.
I think, first of all, I should have done some research, instead of just waking up one day, looking at the medicine and saying “no thanks”. In retrospect, had I googled “Trileptal withdrawl” I would have seen that some funky shit was going to happen.
My ankles swelled up, and my face went numb. And I just felt … weird. Kind of like I had the flu.
I was super thirsty, as well.
These are all, I learned… bad.
Apparently they are the signs of hyponatremia — a lowering of blood sodium that occurs in about 3 people per 100 treated. I”m not sure how bad that is, but I know that I didn’ like it.
I also felt spacey (not Kevin Spacey) and a bit confused.
