Posted by willyeee on October 30, 2009, at 11:01:22
I am treatment resistent,im on a treatment resistent anti depressant,PARNATE,and had treatment resistment rage which caused me to be eventualy maced in my own home ,tackled,and kicked out.
My rage failed to respond to just about every mood stablizer out there,so with my girl we spent hours a night using special tactics in how we search to find a unconvetional mood stablizer.
Zonegran was it,...it affected gaba at the benzo level,had little interactions,and weight loss opposed to gain.
So we studied it a few days and i started its initial dose for mania of 100 mg,well visiting BACK HOME ! the first thing my father says to me at the table is....whatever it is ur doing u look really good today.
I also take it at night,it helps me sleep right away,and since it has a 3 day half life i dont have to worry if itll carry over till the next day in effect,also aside from stopping my constant rage cycling it also seems to have poteniated my parnate to work better,or perhaps my med is working better cause im not going into rage?
Anyone i was ready to give up,so just fyi make a search engine ur best friend,be creative in keywords,and spend more time in search over boards until you find something,this is how i have found any med i responded to.
Just to note,zonegran is officialy approved for seizures as are most mood stablizers....however its off label uses are in trials now for obesity,...nerve pain as well as migraines...and of course bipolar.Revolution heatlh is full of first hand user ratings.
ONE EXTREMLY important thing to note is u have to know if u have a sulfphur allergy,this is a must,allergies of it can result in little as a small rash to a case in which a young girl aquired internal 3RD DEGREE BURNS among many other aliments upon using it,even after telling the doc sulphur was her one allergy the "doc" blew her off saying its a very low amount.
Dose for mood starts low at 100 mg,and can actualy work there and stay however for hard cases a max of 300 mg has been sometimes used,this has a lot of cogntive side effects however.Im looking forward to going up to 200 mg but because of the 3 day have live its strongly recomened i wait 2 weeks which i am doing,but my mood is much more stable knock on wood,i love gaba lol !
poster:willyeee
thread:923504
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