Posted by bigshooter121 on July 5, 2003, at 12:31:01
In reply to Re: need some med advice (moodstabilizer) » Rainee, posted by Ritch on July 2, 2003, at 9:29:20
Is it Mitch or Ritch? Whichever the case, I very much appreciate the advice you give out here. I've gone through the last couple of years of posts and found yours to be the most informative and closest to my experiences. I haven't been trying the meds as long as you but I've experimented for about 10 years myself. I seem to have similar responses to different drugs as yourself. Your experiences with buspar and wellbutrin we're dead on. You seem to talk a lot about Neurontin and that's one of the drugs I've never tried. I've stuck with Trileptal cause of all the mood stabilizers that's the one that's had the least amount of side effects for me. I'm still experimenting with different combinations but the best I've come across so far has been Trileptal, celexa, and desipramine. I seem to have a ADHD/bipolar kind of depresion/anxiety problem. There seems to be some chronic fatigue syndrome thrown in the mix. It's hard to pinpoint exactly what's wrong with me but the drugs do make a dramatic difference. Well, I could go on and on but I just wanted to establish a contact with you since we seem to have a similar type illness and similar type responses to medications. Maybe we'll be able to help eachother out. I'm wondering how the imipramine worked for you compared to desipramine and what dosage and dosing schedule you use for Neurontin. Sorry for going on so much. I really look forward to hearing back from you. Thanks for your help.
Mike
> > I'm on 30 of lexapro and just tried trileptal it made me feel sick I tried gabatril and it seemed raise my blood pressure and made me all wierd.
> > I take xanax also and a norvasc for blood pressure
> > my illness is a bipolar type low depressions and anxiety I get irritable spells .. I need something soothing I'm overweight I notice I eat less when my anxiety level is low. I've heard some scary topomax stories so I'm scared of that..
> >
> > Thanks as always
> >
> > Rainee
>
> You could give some Neurontin a try. It doesn't work for MANIA, it is true, but it CAN work rather well for anxiety/agitation/sleep issues which fuel depression. Many folks also report it reducing irritability. It doesn't have a big reputation for being porkogenic either.
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