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Old Feb 17, 2016, 10:39 PM
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So far I've spent my time home sleeping. It's so nice to have my own bed, the dark that goes with living where I do, and my kitties. I also have a lot of sleeping to catch up on. I just seem to be trying to do it all at once.

I will say that gabapentin was an absolute life saver this last 10 days. I was allowed to increase my doses as I needed to and it got me through without any horrible meltdowns except once when I was treated unfairly and another time I just lay in bed crying for no reason. It is definitely good for anxiety. I have to go now in order to take it in fact; it wasn't in my pill box b/c I'm waiting to hear from CVS that I can pick it up and the prescription error is fixed. Until then I'm using what I had from before. But I'm pretty impressed I made it through without something stronger. Apparently my hospital is very big on a combination of gabapentin and hydroxyzine for anxiety and the combination worked very well for me,probably better than benzos. I used 1 mg of klonopin a few times and my usual klonopin at bedtime but for the most part it was that combination.
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Bipolar 1, PTSD, GAD, OCD.
Clozapine 250 mg, Emsam 12 mg/day patch, topamax 25 mg, ,Gabapentin 1600 mg & 100-2 PRN,. 2.5 mg clonazepam., 75 mg Seroquel and 12.5 mg PRNx2 daily
Thanks for this!
Nammu