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Originally Posted by Crook32
All I know is that the dr said lamictal would lessen the ketamine effects and it most certainly did. Usually I can’t open my eyes and see vidid images but this time I could open my eyes all throughout and didn’t see any images. I have tried Emsam it didn’t work for me. I was using a punching bag for a while until I had no energy to do it anymore. There is one med that my pdoc mentioned but I have to get weekly blood tests to use it. You can only get a week’s worth at a time from the pharmacy if your blood test is ok.
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Was that clozaril/clozapine? It's not so bad. The weekly tests are only for 6 months and 4 years into the med I honestly don't even remember that part. After 6 months it goes to every other week and 6 months later to monthly. And the best thing is the med works. It helps a lot of people that nothing else helps, like me. Until I started clozapine I was in a mixed state most of the time. In the last 4 years I've only had one episode that was bad enough to require 4 days of an increased clozapine dose for hypomania (mania? I don't remember) and those four days stopped the episode. Otherwise I've had little shifts of my other meds and been ok. It's nothing like my old life.
I hope you find the med that helps you. For me it was clozapine and I tried what seemed like them all (really it was more like 40-50 and a lot of combinations of those.)
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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
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