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Originally Posted by PAYNE1
One of my former pdocs yanked me off of my antidepressants, saying I was getting manic. Then my last pdoc put me back on a low dose of Wellbutrin. Now my current one decided (with my approval) to take me off of the Wellbutrin to see if I'd start getting depressed. Well, guess what? I am heading down.....
I know pdocs are so scared we bipolars might become manic, but I really feel like I need to be back on the Wellbutrin! Any of you folks taking an antidepressant and not heading into mania? Help! I don't want to have to go back into the hospital. The last two times I went it was because of depression.
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Payne1, if it was just a matter of becoming manic, and then being able to fix it easily with a guaranteed recipe (eg. stabilisers), it may not be such an issue.
I went severely manic on a few weeks of Prozac, and no AEDs or Lithium could reel me in for 18 months. The only thing that subdued my mixed episode was major tranquilisers ("antipsychotics") which numbed me so much I was practically unable to function at all. My Pdoc won't let me near any antidepressant or stimulant med.
Unfortunately for me, my first pdoc didn't seem to comprehend the risks of getting it wrong up front.
Some folks are lucky and ADs don't give them much trouble. Others stand to lose a lot from that little experiment.
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