Posted by Maxie44 on June 6, 2004, at 12:58:55
Hi All
New to the board and am very anxious about posting. I've never done this before but my family, friends and so on don't know how to deal with what I'm going through right now. They are being such a good support but it's really hard.I've been on Wellbutrin (300 mg), Lexipro (15 mg) and she added Lamictal to the others about two months ago, I did the tigration, it was okay until I got up to 100 and then the itchies started and have scratch marks from trying to to
get rid of it, it went away and went to 200 mg, had a rash(not serious) and was brought back down to 100mg, the itchies, blurry vision, lack of concentration etc. has never gone away. She finally brought me down to 75 mg, weaned me off the lex, it took two weeks to get off of it. This all started happending when she addeed the lamictal. She really believes that the lamictal is the answer to my depression but I beginning to believe that i need to get off of it. I just want to stop all the meds and start from scratch. I started to sweat, shiver etc, she believes it's the lexipro withdrawal and now has put me on 10 mg of Prozac. Does the medication ever end?Now I have never been so tired, listless and can't seem to concentrate except to be on the computer and watch tv. it's so crazy. I've been in my house now except to try to take a walk and go for coffee for about a month and half. I've lost my job to due to this episode of deppression, nothing new. So many things triggered it off this time but I didn't speak to the pdoc because I didn't want her to know that i was having problems again. the wellbutrin and lex worked for a while but just stopped. I've been on combo of meds for about 12 years since I was first diagnosed as a borderline but it's changed to unipolar. I've been depressed most of my life and feeling so low.
Thanks for being good listeners, I really needed to get this off my chest.
Maxie44
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thread:354292
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