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Old Jul 31, 2012, 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by TardisGrl View Post
I have been put on Prozac, Paxil, & Zoloft in the past (by several different GPs and PDocs). Abilify was added to combat the mania. The only thing Abilify did was give me rather severe akathisia. That was not fun. My current Pdoc took me off of Zoloft rather quickly when I started to tip into mania. In his opinion, Bipolar Disorder patients don't mix very well with ADs.
Sometimes, though, we have no choice but to take ADs. I'm one of those.

Recently, on my pdoc's advice, I tried to discontinue a low dose of Celexa with near-disastrous results---I slipped into such a state of agitated, irritable, crawling-out-of-my-skin pissiness that my family was ready to throw me out of the house! Thankfully, he's more open-minded about bipolars and ADs than the average pdoc, so he gave me back my little bit of Celexa and voila`! Life is good again. The downside being I'll have to stay on the antipsychotic as well as the mood stabilizer, because I did flip into mania once on just the AD and the MS.
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DX: Bipolar 1
Anxiety
Tardive dyskinesia
Mild cognitive impairment

RX:
Celexa 20 mg
Gabapentin 1200 mg
Geodon 40 mg AM, 60 mg PM
Klonopin 0.5 mg PRN
Lamictal 500 mg
Levothyroxine 125 mcg (rx'd for depression)
Trazodone 150 mg
Zyprexa 7.5 mg

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