Whenever my pdoc gives me an increase in one of my medications, I'm good for a few days and/or a week or two...then I come right back down to a moderate depressive state. I was doing awesome this past week! I showered and left my house! I cooked! I felt like, finally I'm back to normal. But as the story goes, I came back down. I knew I was going to stay like this because I didn't even want to cook what I had planned to last night, and laid on the couch instead. I'm tired of this up and down pattern every two weeks or so. I checked the schedule and happened to see she had an appointment available in about 40 minutes, so I drove up there. She decided to try and increase the Lamictal again. From 200 to 250 then up to 300. One reason is because I'm afraid of an increase in Effexor (because I ended up hypo last summer) and Wellbutrin (because I felt like a zombie at 400). We'll give that some time and see how that works.
Then I started thinking, what do you all have to deal with? Do your pdocs just keep increasing or switch your meds for a new one? Does it make a difference? I know none of us are doctors, just interested in personal experiences. I'm in a whole new world here. Longest instability I've had...