What is your medication cocktail like?

For me its Seroquel 200mg morning 200 evening
can take trazodone 50 mg if i feel real bad or vistaril which I think is crap.

How bout you?

I take:

200mg Lamictal am
36 mg Concerta am
15 mg Abilify am
30 mg Cymbalta am
10 mg Ambien pm

I also have ECT once a month... but my last scheduled treatment is the first week of October.

I take:

100mg Seroquel am
10mg Abilify am
400mg Tegretol am

500mg Seroquel XR pm
400mg Tegretol pm

I also can take 25 mg tablets of seroquel as needed every 2 hours.

At the moment, I am on:

500 Depakote
20 Prozac
25 Seroquel PRN for sleep

I still have breakthrough symptoms so I will see what p-nurse says next week.

All I take now is: 7.5mg Zyprexa every night and 1mg Klonopin as needed (almost every day, but at least down from 3x a day). That's for Bipolar, PTSD, and anxiety/obsession problems.

I take 600mg Lithium
10mg Abilify
150mg Wellbutrin XR
100mg Pristiq
25mcg Synthroid
3mg Lunesta

900 mg Lithium
20 mg Propranolol PRN tremor
1 mg Lunesta PRN insomnia

The propranolol is great for minor anxiety so I use it before I go talk to my boss for example.

Lamictal 50 mg am 75 mg pm

was on 300 mg wellbutrin just reduced it to 150 mg am only

Multi-vitamin with high level of Vitamin B
Vitamin C
Omega 3

300 mg Lamictal
alprazolam PRN

New PHMNP has an idea or two regarding other things going on. List might get longer. We'll see. I'm not sure that they're not BP related. I've been inside my own head so many many years that many things seem "normal" to me that might not be. I'll probably give it a go if she can convince me. Can always go off.

today i'm pon4

200mg seroquel am
45 mg mirtazapine pm
300 mg seroquel pm

but ask me on monday after i see the pdoc!

All I take now is: 10mg Zyprexa every night and 20mg Celexa (every day). That's for Bipolar and anxiety/depression problems.

We just changed my meds/dosages...again:

100 mg Lamictal (was on 300 & kept falling a lot)
300 mg Wellbutrin
60 mg Cymbalta
0.137 mg Synthroid (Thyroid dead from radiation)
2 mg Estradiol (hormone)
Adderal 10 mg twice a day (just started this week but not any perkier yet)
150 mg Lithium (starting today & can work up to 3 per day)
Vitamin D for a deficiancy
also on antibiotics & pain meds after oral surgery

I went for a good while on a certain cocktail that did well but since that stopped working it feels like we are floundering around trying to keep me out of the darkness. Very frustrating.

1200 mg Lithium
300 mg Wellbutrin
80 mg Geodon
50 mg Trazodone
2-3 mg Klonopin {1 in the morning and 1 at night, 1 PRN}
just went off 40 mg Celexa and 10 mg Prozac to help with the withdrawal

i also take a B complex vitamin and Biotin, but those are for vanity, not sanity.

WOW!!!! That is a really high dosage of Seroquel. I am amazed you aren't a zombie.
ptk

That's nothin'! I am on so many at such high doses, that it scares me a little. Frankly, I don't know how I function as well as I do. Which isn't all that great right now. But anyway, here's my cocktail:

Lamictal 400 mg/day
Lithium 200mg/day
Seroquel XR 800 mg/day
Abilify 30 mg/day
Pristiq 50 mg/day
Zoloft 300 mg/day
Remeron 15 mg/day
Wellbutrin SR 400mg/day
Iron for anemia
Aciphex for GERD

I was a zombie on the instant-release seroquel, so we changed the 500mg to the extended release and it's much milder, as it stretches over the whole day.

how many of you guys are in the USA?

You are experiencing a very high degree of polypharmacy. I am well aware of all the medication that you are taking and have the education and experience to back up that label of polypharmacy. What I find to be most disconcerting is the repetitions occuring in your medicinal regimen. You are on at least four medications in the SSRI class all with the same action, You are on at least two atypical anti-psychotics, both of which effective by the same action. The dosage levels of thes atypical anti-psychotics is alarming. I understand that we all experience different degrees of severity of symptoms and that the professionals to prescribe an effective course of treatment but I am extremely concerned about your overall health currently to say nothing of the long term effects of these medications, dosages and repetitive useage of duplicating medications that have the same action. I am not a pharmacist so I cannot legally give you any specific advice but I STRONGLY suggest that you seek a consult with a reputable psychopharmacologist for your own safety and benefit.
Wishing you the best and praying that you seek help before it is too late...
ptk

that's partly what i was gonna say! i'm in the uk and i know full well they want you on as little as possible cos the nhs has to pay for it. in the US, well, you pay so surely they'll put you on as MUCH medication as they possibly can

Ptk,

Thanks for the concern, but you really don't know my history. I have more than just bipolar. And the anti depressants operate on some different chemicals in the brain, they are not all the same. I have always been on large doses and several medications, my illnesses are treatment resistant. Rest assured that I am monitored closely for side effects, and actually, besides dry mouth and some tiredness throughout the day, I am fine. When I am on less medication however, I am extremely suicidal, attempt often, and severely depressed to the point of catatonia.

Each person's body chemistry are different and these medications have evolved over time. I was not just prescribed a whole bunch of meds all at once. This is the only combo that has worked for me. While I have my downs, I do not get psychotic anymore and I have not attempted in over a year, which is really good for me. I have spent many years going in and out of the psych hospital, attempting suicide, SI, eating disorders, and alcoholism. I appreciate that these meds have helped me. I do not SI, and haven;t for 3 years, I do not abuse alcohol, I am a healthy eater, and I haven't attempted in over a year. When usually I attempt several times throughout the year during bad years.

So please be aware that your words could be misconstrued by people and scare people off of taking medication that works. I appreciate your concern, but you do not know me nor my case and I would appreciate it if you not try not to undermine my pdoc and myself.

Lotus,

Please don't second guess my pdoc and myself. My pdoc is wonderful and cares about me very much. He is not into over medicating me for money! I find your post unhelpful and possibly dangerous. Please see my response to ptk.

I'm on
Geodon (20mg am/60mg pm)
benztropine (1mg pm)
Cymbalta (60mg am)
levothyroxin (50mcg am)
diazepam (2.5-5mg pm)

It's been the best combo for me yet in the 2 years since I started treatment. I've been on practically everything especially in the anti-dep and atypical anti-psy classes. Even been on both of the mood stabilizers (lithium and Lamictal), but either they didn't work or they caused worse problems than their therapeutic effects.

I also take all matter of supplements including Vitamins B, C, D, calcium, magnesium and a multi-mineral suspended in liquid. I don't take Omega fish oil because I'm vegetarian.

and i find your highly offensive!

i think everyone is entitled to their opinions and mine is as i stated! you wouldn't be the only person I know who I think is over medicated (and justg happens to be paying for their healthcare / medication).

Leave people to their opinions. I didn't say your dr was WRONG at all! just that i didn't agree with it. if it was me, i'd be seriously questionning it but if you say it's working for you then that's great. get off my back

seroquel xr 800mg
haldol 5 mg 2 times a day
celexa 40 mg
trazadone 200 mg
klonipin 1 mg 2 times a day

[quote=thinker22;1471002 I don't take Omega fish oil because I'm vegetarian.[/quote]

Vegan Omega 3 is available in the form of flax oil if you wanted to try that. My husband is a vegetarian so I am trying to get him to try it.