Posted by Ritch on January 27, 2005, at 13:32:40
In reply to Re: Trileptal and Zoloft for Bipolar II, posted by stresser on January 27, 2005, at 12:12:49
> I remember that question also, because I took the test two weeks ago. ( I have anxiety, guess why?) I can bet anything she put "yes", for the race car drive question also. I do know she has incredible road rage. Are you still on medication? Do you still have those symptoms or are they under control now? Your help has been greatly appreciated, thank you so much. -L
You are welcome. Medication? I've long accepted the fact that I will be on meds for bipolar indefinitely. There might be different ones, combos, dosages, etc., but I just don't see any future without them. Maybe a non-invasive treatment? New tech rTMS or VNS? I sort of 'drifted' off of meds in the past once with disastrous results. Wasted about five years of my life by going off of meds for one-two years. I'm pretty stable now, but pdoc and I are still fine-tuning things. I'm taking Depakote+clonazepam+gabapentin right now along with a very tiny amt. of Celexa for anxiety and an occasional tiny bit of Stratterra for the lows. Interestingly, I had a pdoc appt. today and got a full metabolic panel, CBC, etc. and I'm to stop the gabapentin (pdoc just doesn't like the way it seems to trigger a relatively benign, but clear hypomania for me), wait a day or two and start just 75mg of Trileptal at bedtime to see if I can get better sleep (that the gabapentin provided) but better mood stability at a low dose without the nausea I got from it previously. If that doesn't help enough with sleep after a couple of weeks, then I'm to increase to 150mg at bedtime. If it appears to work well at that low dosage for sleeping, then we will consider reducing the Depakote from 375>250 and see if I am less tired and hungry with that mix. Whether I get nauseated or not from the Trileptal we are going to re-check electrolytes (esp. sodium)in a couple of months and compare to baseline. We'll see. Whoa, that was a lot of verbiage there, sorry! I have definitely been a little high the last three weeks ::)
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