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Originally Posted by Cocinella
Well like the tittle of my thread sounds, it's what my pdoc said to me.
At the stage of med treatment I'm at now, she said, we have to wait. All though Abilify (which I take) shows results after some time, a combination of med's (in my case Lamictal and Abilify) takes more time to actually see results.
My state?
Well I swing. For 4,5, days I'm ok, than I start crying and am a bit BLAH for 3 days, then OK again for few days etc., you know the picture.
Otherwise, I feel lost. And cus of it I am sad. Don't really know what to do at this stage.I am trying to live my life normal, but my lack of ideas and life energy is bothering me. Is it normal to feel this way?
I also opened a thread on this subject, hoping some of you will respond and see him/herself in my problems, story.
Love you all *** Stay well  |
This sounds a lot like my experience with Lamictal. I started about 3 weeks ago, and my depression suddenly tanked within just a few days of starting on 25mg. It worried my tdoc so much that she had me call my pdoc to increase the dose to 50mg. I'm on day #4 of 100mg now, and like you described, my emotions have been all over the place. I'll be fine-ish for a few days, then out of nowhere I'm bawling and suicidal thinking I'm never going to make it the next few months of my last school semester. Then I'll be okay-ish, then bam, back to the crying. Though I have to admit, it's kind of nice to be able to cry again, because I've been so numb for months that I haven't been able to cry even when I wanted to, so maybe in my case, the crying is a good sign? I don't know.
I was on Abilify for about 6 months, but it did absolutely nothing for me but give me horrible akathisia and make me gain 20 lbs. Stopped that 3 weeks ago as well. I've been on Wellbutrin XL for a year, first at 150mg which helped for awhile then dropped off, then up to 300mg which again helped for awhile, but then dropped off. Now the addition of the Lamictal.
I also have no energy whatsoever, have to force myself to get out of bed, force myself to eat, force myself to be around other people. Today I just couldn't do it and slept for 17 hours. My doctors remind me that I'm not at the therapeutic dose of 200mg yet, so I just need to keep waiting it out, and hopefully these side effects will subside within a month or so. Annoyingly, it's seemed to increase both my anxiety and insomnia, which combined with the hypersomnia really makes it hard to get anything productive done.
Even when I get to 200mg, they said it might take up to a month to start really feeling the positive benefits. Ugh. So tired of the waiting game. Hope you start feeling better soon!