I'm sticking to the subject, but i'm giving you guys a complete background to my med situation.

Every time I start a new med it makes me either loopy or crazy. My doc started me on the 25mg seroquel, and 300mg of lithium 3x's a day. I'm only taking 300mg of lithium once a day right now to kind of start off slow then gradually increase. My doctor said that's fine, and said I can kind of play with it till I find a dose that's good for me (which is cool of him).
I didn't want to start on a high dose that would make me too sleepy then I would get discouraged and stop taking it all together. So i've been taking 300mg for about 5weeks, I think today i'm going to go to 600mg for a week to see what kind of difference that does. The last three days I've been pretty aggressive and I have no motivation. So that's what is making me increase my dose, hope it helps!!!!
The mixture of meds i'm on is making me nervous, besides the lithium and seroquel i'm taking 20mg of Ritalin(to help me get up in the mornings, and it helps with depression), and 200mg of Tramadol. The Tramadol is from when I had problems with my pancreas, I was hospitalized from the pain and problems it caused me, so my doctor (my old one) put me on the Tramadol to bear the all day everyday pain it was causing. The pain was awful and I literally could NOT eat ANYTHING!! Problem is now, it's been 2 years since I was prescribed the Tramadol(I wasn't on any meds for BP) and when I first started taking it I noticed I wasn't depressed, and I was very motivated. I started college, got two certificates, 4.0 grade average. So I took it mainly for that reason..I felt normal for the first time in my life!!!!! The Tramadol isn't working like that anymore and I started back on some meds for the BP in a desperate attempt to be normal again It seems ironic that with all the BP meds I have taken/tried non of them worked as near as good as the Tramadol did for the first two years I started it.
I wonder why that is?
My main concern with all these meds is that the Tramadol has a major interaction with all of them. Here is the link I looked up
http://www.drugs.com/interactions-ch...-979,1979-1274
I know I need to slowly stop taking the Tramadol, but it's the only thing that has ever come close to help me be motivated. What would you guys do? I need advice on how to handle this, I know it's a tricky subject but i'm at a loss with what to do. Thanks, and sorry if this is hard to follow