Posted by Janelle on July 13, 2001, at 1:26:09
In reply to Re: SHAR: What anti-psyc. is helping your depression?, posted by Shar on July 13, 2001, at 0:15:50
I'll look into Risperdal if need be. I've been on Zyprexa just as a crisis intervention before I see the pdoc and she'll put me on a mood stabilizer. The Zyprexa zones me out big time, also short term memory problems.
I take 1 mg. Risperdal daily. At first I had a lot of bottoming out with it, so we bumped it up to 1.5 mg. For some reason, I went back to 1 mg. --- oh yeah, I was getting very twitchy and jerky and felt really nervous about that.
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> The Risp helped with energy, kept my mood up better (to only slightly depressed in general), and I feel like I can tackle harder things than before.
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> My cocktail has definitely dumbed me down, and I can't spell for beans anymore. Used to be an excellent speller. Oh well, that's a trade off I can live with.
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> Shar
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> P.S. Good luck to you in finding the right combo of things.
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> > Thanks for explaining (you did GREAT!) the difference between mood stabilizers and anti-psychotics. You mentioned your A-P is working well on your depression, so I'm wondering which it is. I'm on Zyprexa for now, but it just makes me spacey.
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