Posted by Sobriquet Style on March 18, 2006, at 6:23:57
In reply to Re: Never thought I'd hear this....., posted by SLS on March 17, 2006, at 12:17:39
>Right now, Lamictal is considered by many to have anti-cycling properties and is recommended for ultra-rapid cycling. I'd like to see how this plays out with the passage of time.
Yes, this is promising.
>12.5mg of Lamictal?
Its a very small amount isn't it. I could be considered to be treatment resistant in some respects, although I hate to use the word treatment resistant, medication resistant is probably more accurate...I just hate the word risistant to be honest. I've found that as i'm not the best responder to psychiatric drugs (other drugs are a different story) I like to keep the dosages at a minimum. Before I've pushed dosages up high, only to be left with alot of increased and unwanted side effects, with really not much improvement for the condition I'm originally treating. It just gets so confusing with all the added side effects to deal with, I've found that keeping the dosage low, i manage to maintain the benefit that I was more or less getting at higher dosages, with less side effects.
>My reason for reducing the dosage was that I found that the higher dosages impaired my memory and ability to learn new things above and beyond the impairments produced by the depression itself.
I've found this aspect too. My learning and overall intelligence has been damaged enough by depressive episodes. I found too that being on the high end scale of the drugs and topamax and at any dosage! appeared to be leaving me the same level of loss of intelligence and learning that the illness was itself. Catch 22. The conclusion I've come to is to stick with the lower dosages.
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