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Re: AP's for Non-psychotic Bipolar

Posted by cybercafe on August 10, 2002, at 7:56:26

In reply to Re: AP's for Non-psychotic Bipolar » cybercafe, posted by sarahcat on August 9, 2002, at 15:31:09

> Oops... I was meaning to imply that the Risperdal has no effect on my depression, not the lithium. In my opinion the lithium has done more to help me than anything else I've ever taken.

Hey that sounds great... I'd like to become normal too

Risperdal - i thought it got rid of suicidal behaviour.... does that mean it relieves depression too? i thought that meant it would do some good

>Effexor used to be a big help, but it pooped out on me and I had to take increasing doses of it to get the same effect. Now my doc won't increase it anymore. I wish he would let me increase the

yeah i think above 225 mg effexor works on norepenephrine for me... which causes cycling in bipolars (like tricyclics)

hey i wonder if it's true that cycling causes anxiety -- cause MAOIs don't cause me to cycle, and my anxiety is gone

>lithium. My blood level is in the low end of the therapeutic range, so I believe we would be safe, if not justified, in going higher, but he's worried about side effects (of which I notice none yet). As far as I'm concerned, effective drugs aren't effective if you don't give them at a high enough dose to be therapeutic for an individual person. But I guess that makes too much sense.

hmmm... who knows... maybe he had patients in the past who were doing well until he gave them side effects, then they flushed all of their pills down the toilet? i'm sure it must be difficult to be a psychiatrist (or any doc... it's so icky)
my friend comes from a doc family, and he wanted to watch a video of people dying for real ... i think docs must have some strange detachment from reality to do what they do


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