What is your medication cocktail like?

I currently take (but this will be adjusted and a stimulant will be added when I stabilize for ADD):

AM - Lithium 300 mg
Midday - Zyprexa 2.5 mg
PM - Lithium 900 mg, Topomax 25 mg, Zyprexa 5 mg

I take
1mg xanax 2 xs a day
1mg klonopin pm
2mg xanax pm
10mg abilify
75mg effexor xr

400 mg Lamictal
0.05 mg Risperdal
50mcg levothyroxine

Just increased my seroquel by fifty... hopefully just a temporary measure, and it won't have to go up anymore.

Wellbutrin 300 mg
Abilify 10mg
Ritalin 20mg

I take
Lithium ER 300mg - AM
Lithium ER 600mg - PM
Serquol 25mg - PM

I have some anxiety, but I want to try and deal with it through therapy. Hopefully won't have to take anything for that.

Depakine 250mg a.m. 500mg p.m.
Sertraline 50mg p.m.
Risperidone 1mg p.m.

200 mgs Lamictal
400 mgs Seraquel
100 mgs Zoloft
Xanax

Here is my cocktail
am-Cymbalta 20mg every other day
am-Depakote 750mg/pm-250mg
am-4pm-10:30-Klonopin .5mg
10am-4pm-Seroquel 100mg
8pm-Seroquel-200mg
10:30pm-Seroquel 350mg
I live in the USA.

Here is my cocktail
All taken at PM
900 MG Litihum
100 MG Lamotrigine (Generic for Lamictal)
120 MG Propranolol ER (For tremors associated to Lithium)
30 MG Temazepam (For Sleep)

I had a bad anxiety attack about a year and a half ago and my p-doc increased my lithium to 1200 MG and added Abilify. I don't remember the dosage. The Abilify stopped the anxiety attack and he kept me from going to the hospital. I was freaking out and he quelled the attack ans doing fine but then I was having bad side effects couldn't talk to people and was having memory problems. I was communicating that something wasn't right to my therapist and p-doc that I only see every 3 months, but we didn't make any changes. I told a guy I was dating about my diagnosis and what I was taking and he suggested that the Abilify was causing the side effects. I readdressed with therapist and p-doc and they took me off the Abilify and I am a functioning capable person again. I do have an emergency pack of Abilify that my doc says to keep on hand and take in case of emergency.

I take blood tests once a quarter with the Lithium so that helps to see if my meds are doing okay.

I have been on a bunch of other drugs. I can't remember all of them but Zyprexa was the first drug I was put on when I was diagnosed with BP and it turned me into a zombie. I was taking Geodon at one point and seeing my p-doc and therapist regularly but still had a very bad manic episode. My p-doc retired and I got with this new p-doc and he put me on Lithium and Lamictal and it seems to have worked for me thus far. I haven't had a bad manic episode for almost 4 years and I've come out of my depression which I'm not sure was truly due to BP issues versus all the fallout of my bad manic episode. Husband left me, kicked me out of the house, took custody of my child, etc.

Geodon - 40mgs 3x/day
Abilify - 10mgs AM
Wellbutrin XL - 450mgs AM
Daytrana - 30mgs AM (patch for ADHD)
Ambien - 5mgs PRN
Klonopin - .5-1mg PRN

I have had this cocktail for 7 years. The doses are sometimes adjusted depending on how I'm doing. The Abilify was first started a couple years ago and is added when the depression can't be kicked, so I only take that for a couple months at a time when needed. This has kept me relatively stable (though of course I do go through occasional difficult periods, however they are much less severe).

Has anyone out there tried Metformin to control blood sugar and subsequent weight gain from the psychotropic meds? Weight gain is a big worry of mine...

Rapid Cycling Bipolar, Anxiety/Depression, OCD

In the AM

300mg Trileptal
1mg Klonopin
37.5 mg Adipex (To help with the weight gain I put on when I was on Depakote)
Fioricet (for migraines)
levocarnitine

In the PM

300mg Trileptal
10mg Lexapro
1mg Klonopin
20mg Omeprazole (GERD)
50mg Tramadol
Multi-Vitamin
b-12 Complex
Fioricet or Excedrin (to ward off morning headache)
Levocarnitine

for all my diagnoses not just the psych ones:

Clozapine
mirtazapine
alprazolam
verapamil
zonisamide
liothyronine
selegiline
proair albuterol
promethazine
estra/noreth 1/0.5
symbicort
gabapentin
strattera
lisinopril
metformin
temazepam
klorcon
vit D
MVI
magnesium
fish oil
and some other prn meds...

I forgot to say I also take Topomax 100 mg. a day for headaches. Now I'm taking herbs for pain since I can't get any good pain relievers because i'm bipolar. I have pain a lot of pain that keeps me from working. I'm retiring at the end of April. I will have to take a cut, but we will be ok. I don't feel old (I will be 58 in Aug.) and I look at it as a new chapter in my life. At least I finally have a man who really loves me. It took me almost 56 years.

10mg saphris at bedtime for bipolar
40 mg adderall once in am once at noon for adhd
120 mg cymbalta for depression
300mg wellbutrin in am 150 mg at 2pm for mood stabilizer
.5 mg klonopin as needed for aniexty

Wtf people are on a lot of drugs.

800mgs sodium valproate, I stagger it out 7am, 11am, 4pm ish then dinner time so I can concentrate at work.

...not in the states... Just saying...

Would be interesting to see the correlation between working and dosage too. I work in an inpatient unit and have never seen anything like he combos on here... :/. Dodgy.

celexa 40mg clinical depression, GAD W/OCD tendencys also social phobia
abilify 2mg bipolar 2
neurotin 600 mg same as above, and fibromyalgia
pepcid 40 mg GERD
metformin 1000 mg PCOS
ambien 10 mg insomnia
vitamin D Vitamin D Deficient
multi-vitamin
calcium
I also have osteo arthritis
linsinopril 10mg HBP

I was at 1800mg of Trileptal (Oxcarbazepine) and 20mg of Paxil, but I started gaining all this weight so I asked to be off Paxil. That doc screwed up and was also trying to take me off the Trileptal and I started going crazy, so we're bringing that back up. Currently at 1200mg Trileptal and 25mg Pristiq. 50mg Visteril for sleep and PRN

lamictal 100MG tablets take 1 twice a day
clonazepam 0.5MG tab take 1/2 tab twice a day
lithium carb 300MG take one once in the evening
mirtazapine (brand name remeron) 15MG tab take 1 once in the evening

Note: The mirtazapine I have only been on a week and I am not very well adjusted yet. I was on wellbutrin prior to it and it sent me into a bit of mania that I could not deal with nor could my husband. I had been on celexa and all I can say about that is the word anhedonia sums it up. Pdoc thought the wellbutrin would perk me up but that was too much.

I've been on other things...but this is my current and most recent. Mainly the depression needs to be improved upon. I would have to be knocked out to not have anxiety, but I am managing so not going to do more with it.

Your montly medication cost must be expensive!!!!!!

Lamictal - 250 mg
Effexor - 150 mg
Paxil - 20 mg
Trazadone prn (very infrequent)
Clonaxepam prn (very infrequent)

I am guesstimating but the average number of meds looks to be 5 or 6, with a few real outliers.

Anyone here from Canada? Just wondering how our number of meds stack up to the UK and USA?

Ok. Here we go....

Lithium 300 X4
Zyprexa 2.5 X1
Levothyroxine 75 X 1 or 2
Metformin 500 X 2
Verapamil 80 X 1
Allegra 180 X 1
Omeprazole 20 X 1
Midrin ? PRN
Ativan .5 PRN
Advair 250/50 X 2
Albuterol PRN

As you can see I also have asthma and allergies and migraines and acid refllux.

Every night I take...

Celexa 60mg
Tenex 2mg
Lamictal 200mg
Fanapt 8mg
Metformin 500mg
Vitamin D 2000IU
(Sometimes) Ambien 10mg

And then I have Ativan .5mg to take as needed for anxiety

And I'm supposed to be on trazodone 50mg at night still, but I've stopped taking it, and I don't think I need it anymore.

If it works, it works. I hate it but I can't live without it (not very easily anyway)