Posted by ruby on July 14, 2010, at 21:13:51
Hi all...It's been a while since I visited here but it is nice to return and see familiar names. Since I've been on complex med cocktails for treatment resistant bipolar depression the past 8 years, I've gained about 50 pounds. We're trying to address this as I am now pre-diabetic.
Right now I'm on Nuvigil 150mg, Levothyroxine 125mcg, Clonapin .5mg 4x/day, Trazodone 200mg, Nortriptylene 100mg...plus a bunch of supplements (NAC, fish oil, Vitamin D3 and C, adrenal rebuilder, diaxynol). I was on Abilify too.
The thought was to get me off Abilify and then start lowering the nortriptylene. I was on 5mg of Abilify, lowered it to 2.5 for a few weeks and then to 2 for a few weeks, then off of it. Seemed to go fine until I was off of it for about 10 days and I crashed badly on Sunday...superduper depression...like put me back into the hospital depression....so i'm back on 2.5mgs of abilify. It is working a little bit but not as much as I wish. Wondering if I should call the doc about going back to 5mg...but then the weight issue comes back into the picture. Not sure I want to stop lowering the nortrip while I am a bit unstable. The thought was to lower the nortrip 10mg a week until I got to 50mg and then stop there.
Wondering if others have had difficulty getting off abilify. Wondering if others have the weight gain thing going on. One doc, not my pdoc but a nutritionist, said it would be nearly impossible to lose weight while on the nortrip...I started the nortrip after having 6 ECT sessions in September.
ANybody identify with any of this...or have any thoughts or encouragement?
I surely hope folks are doing well and feeling stable. I'm so grateful to have this resource.
ruby
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