Posted by markwell on May 4, 2011, at 20:42:13
In reply to Re: starting provigil » markwell, posted by SLS on May 4, 2011, at 19:31:02
I don't know what else I can add. I've had a short trial of lithium, my pdoc wants to head there if Tegretol fails. Depression is dominant. The 2 manic episodes I had were when I was on an antidepressant. My depression symptoms are, no zest for life. I have absolutely no energy, I have to rally myself to take a shower. I struggle through a day of work and sit in the lounge chair the rest of the night or lay in bed. Maybe my pdoc thought of provigil because my wife complains to him of my sitting in a chair for the entire night after supper. I was on paxil for ten or so yrs but battling racing thoughts at higher therapeutic dose (20mg). I had some stress in my life 2 yrs ago and a manic episode occured. I was put on Seroquel for 4or 5 months but it didn't help much with depression and I was a complete zombie. Went through a severe depression trying to get back on paxil but it wouldn't work again. Last summer after attempts with various ssri's and even lamictal with no depression reief I tried zoloft and a week on zoloft and I could feel the depression lift. My wife thought I was becoming manic again and sure enough about 3 weeks into the zoloft and I had another full blown manic episode landed me in the hospital. I was put on Geodon which seemed to help for awhile until I developed this extreme facial tic (td). My doctor said no more ap's, we tried lamictal, I couldn't sleep at all on that. Now my trial with Tegretol, and now Tegretol and provigil. Maybe I'll have to go alternative but my doctor doesn't support that. Don't know what to do!
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