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Old Jan 26, 2016, 12:18 PM
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Originally Posted by BeyondtheRainbow View Post
I'm not trying to be negative and PLEASE don't take this to mean you'll be sitting where I am at any time EVER, but it takes a lot of time and patience sometimes to find the right meds. Unfortunately if you've only been trying for 6 months or so you are just in the beginning. Some people get it right immediately; I think most try several meds first. You will get there. I just remember it took so much more patience than I was really equipped with at the time. (Ok, for me it really took a lot of years before I really had some months that I was "in remission" but I'm weird.) Most people find something that works really well. Even though I've not been the poster child for that (and to be completely fair I was diagnosed by one of the top dr's in bipolar in the world b/c I was hard to diagnose and he told me I would be hard to treat and he was not kidding) I did land on Emsam, an MAOI that combined with Seroquel was wonderful for me until, well, honestly until I got whooping cough and a lot of other problems developed because I was so sick. But even that took an allergy to the DtaP vaccine so you are unlikely to lose your stability to a mostly controlled in this country disease .

But don't give up on the meds yet. You aren't on a very big dose of Latuda and haven't been on it that long. Sometimes it takes a while for your body to give in (and other times it will respond immediately). Sometimes it just takes more for some reason that nobody really understands (like the reason I'm on so much Seroquel; it's what I needed. Yet some of my other meds are really bad at anything but tiny doses.) A higher dose of Latuda might be great. Have you tried Geodon? It's weight neutral, sedating and even generic and a lot of people seem to like it a lot.

You'll get there!
I don't think that is negative at all. I didn't take it that way. I know I've only been trying BP meds a few months but I really thought that I would notice a difference with one and have zero side effects. I think that is the thing that is really frustrating with BP medications. It might help you mentally but wonk out your body badly. Its so infuriating. I just want to feel normal again (or whatever that is). I just want to feel Zen. Is that so much to ask!? LOL

Thanks for the advice!
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