"i have been on trileptal for a little over a year. i was taking 1200mg/day. on the flipside, the symptoms of dizziness and double vision i had about an hour after i took the medicine i just dealt with because the medicine worked so great in stabilizing my moods. these two side effects never lessened.  i am bipolar 1 with one major depressive episode. i also take welbutrin. i am being taken off the medicine slowly due to acute hyponatremia which hospitalized me for 3 days. i took tegretol prior to the trileptal. i loved the tegretol but wanted to change because there were less potential side effects with the trileptal which is now very ironic. i will be starting lamictal when the trileptal is completely out of my system."