Posted by Ritch on December 29, 2002, at 16:23:00
In reply to Re: Calling all bipolars! Any Of You? , posted by Kar on December 29, 2002, at 11:42:46
> Hey Mr. S...plain old BP here but only depressed/fine/depressed/fine for years. Yup, my last 2 docs always stressed that the ultimate goal (and studies have shown, blah blah blah) was to get me off ADs and onto only MS because the ADs were actually increasing cycling. Never making me manic, but increasing cycling. Was on Nardil + variations of MS- sometimes 1, sometimes 2 for years. Since about 2 years ago I've been off the Nardil and we've been trying like the dickens to find a MS combo (I was skeptical) that would do the deed. Lamictal + Top, Lamictal + Tegretol, Teg +Topamax, you get the pictcha. Lately we've been hanging on tight to the Lam + Trileptal combo but it just ain't cutting it. He insisted it would work, I insisted it wasnt't working...now we've added Prozac which i haven't been on since i was 17. I wondered why we were bothering to walk the SSRI road again but he made the point that once they drugs are a combo, it's like being on one drug that works differently than it would've on other combos. Does that make sense?
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> This combo seems the best so far an my fingers and toes are crossed but who knows yet. So my long winded answer to you is that although the docs say that it's the goal to get you only on MS, for the primarily depressed I haven't heard many success stories.
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> I often wonder...if you've gone so many years without getting manicky b/c whatever MS you've been on has put the kibosh on it, does your brain start to react differently than if you were swinging way up then way down...
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> Namaste an excuse the ramble...
> K
Hi, that's an interesting ramble. Just curious, what dosages of Lamictal/Trileptal/Prozac are you taking? I found that Prozac was definitely a different experience with lithium than it was with Depakote. I'm a rapid cycler and my cycles never have gotten less or more frequent, the peaks and troughs were just more or less intense or the depressed or hypomanic parts were of different durations depending on what meds I'm on and what time of year it is.
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