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I'm on Cymbalta, just 30 mg. I have taken 60 mg in the past, but the pdoc thought it made me manic (and maybe it did, I don't know). But anyway, I've been pretty stable on it beyond the normal bipolar ups and downs. When I first started taking it in the spring, it made a noticeable difference within 4-5 days. Very fast. However, by November, my mood was tanking into serious suicidal depression, and that's when my pdoc had me start using the SAD lamp. I didn't think the lamp would do crap but started using it daily to prove him wrong. But that lamp has helped me a ton. Either that, or I'm getting one hell of a placebo effect. It's helped even more than the Cymbalta - I started drawing again after 20 years, baking and enjoying it. I swear I even feel a bit more energized afterward I use the lamp each day.
Of course, there are people with bipolar who have bad results with the SAD lamp turning them manic, I guess you never know until you try. My baseline though seems to stay mostly in the depressed to mixed range, that may be why it helped me and not others. I did take Wellbutrin without it turning me manic, but the Wellbutrin didn't really do anything to help my depression either.
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Bipolar 1, PTSD, anorexia, panic disorder, ADHD
Seroquel, Cymbalta, propanolol, buspirone, Trazodone, gabapentin, lamotrigine, hydroxyzine,
There's a crack in everything. That is how the light gets in.
--Leonard Cohen
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