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Old Jun 17, 2013, 07:30 PM
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Originally Posted by sheltielover2013 View Post
Celexa is my antidepressant. Any dose higher than 10 mg pushes me into mania, but 10 mg seems to at least take the edge off of some of the depressive cycles. Ask your psychiatrist about low doses of antidepressants.
That is EXACTLY the same position I'm in. The therapeutic range for Celexa is not just narrow, it's almost nonexistent for me. I can't do without it (I tried last summer, and it was a disaster) but if I take any more than the 10 mg my pdoc allows me, it throws me into mania.

It's funny; of all the psych meds I'm on, Celexa is the one he really keeps on a short leash---I can't have any more than a 30-day supply at a time. That's because I like my hypomanias, and he knows it. A while back when I was depressed, I asked to have the dose increased and he said, "I know what you really want, and NO!!" He upped the Lamictal instead, and that took care of business. So that's what we do whenever the down cycles hit me, which isn't all that often (I tend to have more mania than depression).
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Anxiety
Tardive dyskinesia
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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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