Posted by cybercafe on July 3, 2002, at 16:41:18
In reply to Did anyone get my post?, posted by EmilyAnn on July 3, 2002, at 16:26:22
Hi, I read your message, but I don't consider myself qualified to prescribe medication.
It's also really important to have a good idea of someone's full symptomology first.What I can tell you is that there are many, many treatments you have not yet explored.. totally different classes of drugs with totally different mechanisms of action.
.. for example.. when you say that drugs did not work... do you mean that you had a 0% response, or closer to 80%?
Obviously if it's a 0% response, augmentation therapy is not as good an idea as if you had a 80% response...I didn't respond well to SSRIs (agitation) or 100% to Effexor XR (but it still did quite a bit of good...) ...
Now I'm on Parnate with some Gabapentin thrown in to control the anxiety + agitation + insomnia + possible hypomania
But I'm BP II, primarily depressive ....
What was your biggest complaint? Depression?
Did the SSRIs send you into (hypo)mania, or just not work at all?
poster:cybercafe
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