Recently it occured to me that with the exception of a tiny dose of Prozac that was suggested by my former p-doc, everything that I currently take successfully was something I asked for. The newest thing is Topamax that is still in the mail and I have no idea whether it will be successful, but Lithium, Geodon, and Amitriptyline are all a godsend and I asked for all three myself.

And I have a long list of unsuccessful drugs in my signature, drugs which were prescribed to me on the initiative of this or that doctor and did not work out for this or that reason.

So analyzing this I come to the conclusion that I am much more successful than my various doctors in prescribing, with the one very strong exception of Prozac which has been a godsend without side effects.

How about you?