I go up so fast

Today begins day one of a higher dosage of Primidone (Mysoline). Now I will be on 300mg a day (3x50 am, 3x50 pm). When I spoke to Dr. Lee yesterday, he conceded that the barbiturates can take a while to work their magic in my body, and get to the point where they are being fully absorbed (?) or something. Dr. Lee also said that his ultimate plan is/was to get me up to 500mg a day, so I'm only 60% there.
Regardless, I will have another meeting with him in a few weeks, take some blood tests, see what Primidone done to my liver.
On a bright side, I got dressed for work today and Mary said she thought I looked slimmer! No Depakote, better eating, exercise...
I am going to be a slim groom for my woman! :-)

Week one is done

So I have gone through my first week with Primidone (Mysoline) and so far so good. I haven't felt overly exhausted on the primidone yet, but then, it does take a while to build up in your system, so... I will start going down to 1500 of Depakote today, and I am looking forward to combining better eating, more exercise, and NO DEPAKOTE so I can get to a better, more healthy weight!

Doctor's Appt.

Went and saw the Dr. yesterday. He noticed the shakes and the weight gain, and we are going to have me go off of Depakote. While I have been on virtually every single medication known to epileptics, we are now going to try putting me back on Barbiturates (Primidone nee Mysoline), which as a child seemed to work well. It will be a long process to wean me onto the drug, but hopefully it will help.
Had another good workout last night with Victor and Mary and between yesterday's training session and Sunday's workout, as well as last week's workouts, I feel like I am getting into a better groove with respect to working out.
ttfn,
Greg