[Cocinella]

Well like the tittle of my thread sounds, it's what my pdoc said to me.

At the stage of med treatment I'm at now, she said, we have to wait. All though Abilify (which I take) shows results after some time, a combination of med's (in my case Lamictal and Abilify) takes more time to actually see results.

My state?

Well I swing. For 4,5, days I'm ok, than I start crying and am a bit BLAH for 3 days, then OK again for few days etc., you know the picture.

Otherwise, I feel lost. And cus of it I am sad. Don't really know what to do at this stage.I am trying to live my life normal, but my lack of ideas and life energy is bothering me. Is it normal to feel this way?

I also opened a thread on this subject, hoping some of you will respond and see him/herself in my problems, story.

Love you all *** Stay well

[Love&Toil]

How much time does your pdoc want to pass before making an adjustment?

[Double Edge]

Originally Posted by Cocinella

Well like the tittle of my thread sounds, it's what my pdoc said to me.

At the stage of med treatment I'm at now, she said, we have to wait. All though Abilify (which I take) shows results after some time, a combination of med's (in my case Lamictal and Abilify) takes more time to actually see results.

My state?

Well I swing. For 4,5, days I'm ok, than I start crying and am a bit BLAH for 3 days, then OK again for few days etc., you know the picture.

Otherwise, I feel lost. And cus of it I am sad. Don't really know what to do at this stage.I am trying to live my life normal, but my lack of ideas and life energy is bothering me. Is it normal to feel this way?

I also opened a thread on this subject, hoping some of you will respond and see him/herself in my problems, story.

Love you all *** Stay well

This sounds a lot like my experience with Lamictal. I started about 3 weeks ago, and my depression suddenly tanked within just a few days of starting on 25mg. It worried my tdoc so much that she had me call my pdoc to increase the dose to 50mg. I'm on day #4 of 100mg now, and like you described, my emotions have been all over the place. I'll be fine-ish for a few days, then out of nowhere I'm bawling and suicidal thinking I'm never going to make it the next few months of my last school semester. Then I'll be okay-ish, then bam, back to the crying. Though I have to admit, it's kind of nice to be able to cry again, because I've been so numb for months that I haven't been able to cry even when I wanted to, so maybe in my case, the crying is a good sign? I don't know.

I was on Abilify for about 6 months, but it did absolutely nothing for me but give me horrible akathisia and make me gain 20 lbs. Stopped that 3 weeks ago as well. I've been on Wellbutrin XL for a year, first at 150mg which helped for awhile then dropped off, then up to 300mg which again helped for awhile, but then dropped off. Now the addition of the Lamictal.

I also have no energy whatsoever, have to force myself to get out of bed, force myself to eat, force myself to be around other people. Today I just couldn't do it and slept for 17 hours. My doctors remind me that I'm not at the therapeutic dose of 200mg yet, so I just need to keep waiting it out, and hopefully these side effects will subside within a month or so. Annoyingly, it's seemed to increase both my anxiety and insomnia, which combined with the hypersomnia really makes it hard to get anything productive done.

Even when I get to 200mg, they said it might take up to a month to start really feeling the positive benefits. Ugh. So tired of the waiting game. Hope you start feeling better soon!

[StayinAlive]

Sorry this is so hard right now. Does your pdoc know just how bad you feel? Sometimes I don't do a good job describing my problems, that's why I ask.

I hope you feel better soon. I think we have the same dx, by the way.

[Tucson]

Lamictal did not have its full effect for me until two months.

[Cocinella]

Hey my friends and than you for your kind response love you all**

well i've been on Lamictal since...march yeah. and on Abilify for 2 months...but i was increasing lamictal slowly and i went on the lowest dose of abilify (5mg.) btwam on 100mg of lamictal.

well i dunno what i should do. i just told you what my pdoc told me. that i have to wait and see how things will turn out to be. well it was my substitute pdoc, cus my personal pdoc is always busy or running around in other countries. i have my next check up on 30th of september and i hope i'll get to her then.

my feelings? well i am sad a lot lately, and lost. i mean i still do everything, clean, eat, sleep, go to work, but there is no real LIFE ENERGY in me if you know what i'm saying. no desire to change something for the better.

the weirdest thing is that i don't feel like going on a trip or travel (!!!) and i ALWAYS was the one convincing my BF to go somewhere..

what do you think?

[venusss]

the weirdest thing is that i don't feel like going on a trip or travel (!!!) and i ALWAYS was the one convincing my BF to go somewhere..

that... sounds like a horrible side effect

Seriously, if you feel it's messing with your personality, it might be time to ditch it. If you feel tired and not yourself, you cannot use any coping skills.... so the med is countraproductive.

[Cocinella]

I dunno really i mean i wont do anything before consulting with my pdoc.it might just be that im on too much lamictal and its making me flat or on to little and is making me sad though lamictal shiuld work as an AD as well...

[venusss]

Yeah, talk to your pdoc, but be assertive and say this is not working right. Don't let him convince that this is how normal people feel.