As I may have stated elsewhere on this forum, I am on 5 psych meds because 4 weren't enough. Until recently my bipolar was extremely difficult to manage and so far, reducing the medication burden hasn't worked well, although I've been able to decrease the Geodon from 80 to 60 mg. With my pdoc's approval, I'm going to try another reduction in the Geodon soon and eventually go off of it, but I'm a long way from that...too much going on in my life right now. It would be nice to be on only one antipsychotic though---medical people who don't know me well always want to know why I'm on two. I think they're just afraid I'm really nuts under my calm exterior. LOL
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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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