Posted by MomO3 on July 18, 2002, at 0:40:53
I have been obsessively researching for the last several months about ADD, BP, etc....
Lately we(the pdoc & I) have stepped into the forum of mood-stabilizers. For my symptoms (rapid cycling or mixed-states BP), Depakote should be first line according to everything that I have read.. I have gotten scripts for Neurontin and now replacing with Trileptal. Is it wrong for me to want a 'REAL' mood stabilizer that could stop this hell?
I quit Paxil and had a terrible depression... I also have large amounts of irritability and anxiety... For this I now have wellbutrin. Doesn't seem logical to me (my research indicated that Effexor would be a good candidate)... .the first time he prescribed Wellbutrin, I simply didn't take it (because of the irritability side-effect), so two months later he prescribed it AGAIN. I feel like I am being forced to take a med I don't want.
My current cocktail is Neurontin, Wellbutrin, Klonopin. I have been taking the wellbutrin for 2 weeks, the depression has subsided but now I hate my husband, my children, and myself for being such a monster. I think I have broken a tooth from clenching my teeth in anger, and I nearly got arrested in the airport the other day when I lost my temper with the woman at the Delta counter.
Aside from the weight gain, I feel like I should be taking depakote & effexor. - but now I am taking so much other crap it will take forever to get around to that. I am trying to let the professional do his job, but it seems he just keep coming up with weirder and weirder meds. Everything I've read says trileptal causes depression - I definitely don't need that!
Anyone taking this the Depakote & Effexor successfully? And what are/were your symptoms?
Thanks!!
Mom
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