Posted by Roo on October 4, 2001, at 9:41:49
I'm not quite sure where to start or how to talk about
this problem....Here's the basic problem--2 years ago
I went from seeing a GP about my depression to a psychiatrist--
really in hopes of weaning off drugs altogether or at
least stablizing on a lower dose of something. Now 2
years later, I'm taking more drugs than ever. I used to
be just fine on a low dose of prozac (20 mg's)...I started
going through a rough time (breaking up with my fiance,
horrible new job that I ended up quitting, a bunch of stuff)
and the prozac wasn't enough. She added a low dose of
an antipsychotic (navane 1mg) and neurotin (now up to 1800 mgs).
I gained a bunch of weight on the neurotin, so now we're trying
lamictal (still weaning off the neurotin)...so basically now
I'm up to 4 psych meds rather than the low dose of prozac
that always was fine before. My own personal hunch is
that my prozac has pooped out (I took it for 5 years) and
I need a new Antidepressant. Her hunch is that I have cyclothymia
and that I need mood stabilizers along with the AD. I'm just
frustrated b/c I feel like I'm getting worse instead of better, more
medicated instead of less. I'm just so frustrated. Everytime
I try and lower and wean off something, even something benign
like neurotin or the little tiny dose of navane--I can't
sleep, I feel anxious...so I'm thinking "great! Now I'm
addicted to not only one drug, but four drugs!"...when's it
going to end? I don't know what to do or how to even
feel about all this. I don't know if I'm just going through
an extraordinarily bad time (I am--a lot of tough stuff
has happened in my life the past 2 years) or if taking
too many drugs is just freaking out my system.
I'm not sure what my point is, just
that I needed to get this out of my system. I do therapy
too, by the way.
poster:Roo
thread:12099
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