Hi tos8,

I've been on both trileptal and Depakote and the Depakote worked great for me along with taking mysoline (primidone) the only thing I had to watch was the blood platlet level and then that got so low plus I got anorexia from the Depakote so I had to go off the drug. Trileptal is just like tegretol and I understand what you mean by toxic because I had that problem a lot of the time while on trileptal. I was told not to eat grapefruit or drink grapefruit juice because the enzymes in the fruit could mess up the trileptal and when I had to take antibiotics for a bad cold forget it I ended up with the trileptal becoming toxic to the point where I couldn't even stand up by myself.
If you haven't tried it yet you might want to give Vimpat a try like I mentioned to you before it is really working well for me stopping my absence and complex partial sz. I take the vimpat with Diamox and mysoline twice a day. Here's wishing you well and May God Bless You!
Sue