Does anyone else have useless meds?

Why do meds hardly ever work?

My meds seem to cause episodes as opposed to prevent them. (I know you can never 100% prevent episodes, but I'm just saying my meds are more or less useless.)

For example, Abilify f***ed with my eyesight at first. Then once that side effect subsided, it was doing a good job of lessening my depressive symptoms.

When I upped my dose recently, it made me hallucinate, I became sad, I lost interest in things, it gave me sui thoughts, etc., and yet, I had loads of energy, needed much less sleep (2-4 hrs), and couldn't stop pacing. How useless! I stopped it on my own because I couldn't handle it.

Can any of you guys relate?

I can understand your frustration. I actually am doing a LOT better, now that I'm on a lower dosage of Abilify. I was on 15 mg and had terrible side effects (heart racing, anxiety, etc.) and now I'm on 7.5 mg and doing great!

It's interesting how a lower dosage (of Abilify) can make me more stable than a higher dosage. It makes me wonder what other meds I'm on that I could be on a lower dosage and do better with... ?

Yeah, I'm on 15mg right now.

I was originally on 10mg to help with my depression, but then I got a depressive episode, which is when we promptly upped my dose. I mean, 10mg did help with my depression, but not enough to make it go away. It only slightly lessened the severity of my symptoms. But when we upped to 15, my depression got worse because it turned into a mixed episode.

I have heard that meds to bring a bipolar down from mania, work great. But, to bring us up from depression, not so great.

That seems to be true. My depressive episodes, last much longer, than my manias.

I have a giant bag of older prescriptions. I feel like a pharmacy.

I'm on 120mg of latuda that I don't think is doing anything. depression struck last semester and Idk how I coulda sank any lower. latuda didn't help.

Risperdal made me more depressed than I had ever been without drugs. I suspect that Lithium is useless, too. Depakote and Lamictal were useless in the past. But there is useless and there is outright detrimental - I was ready to try sui on Risperdal.

I have found Geodon which works perfectly and am hoping that I could phase out Lithium under close supervision of a pdoc.

I recommend taking useless old drugs to the pharmacy for safe disposal because they can be an OD tool.

I have a big bag of them waiting to go to the disposal place.

For me, alcohol is a useless med.

My meds saved my life.

I went through quite a few useless meds to find the right ones, but now I have and I've been stable for eight months. It is possible. Don't give up yet.

My friggin' BP dx was just changed because of the damn manic episode.

Had 1,000x more hypomanic episodes than a normal BPII patient would normally have though have MDD criteria depressive episodes. Then had a bunch of clusterf**kery happen in the last couple of months, which I believe triggered the full-blown manic episode and just screwed me over.

So I go from BPII to "BP NOS/unspecified" on my records because my new doc understands my nervousness regarding a BPI dx but diagnostically, I have "bipolar affective disorder, currently manic, moderate." So, essentially, BPI w/o psychotic features.

Previously tried Abilify to help with mood stabilization. Big fat NOPE. Not allowed to touch anti-psychs anymore because even the 2.5mg induced auditory hallucinations.

Was on Lamictal, but now weaning off of that and titrating up on Depakote [now on day three]. Everything else is staying the say with Welbutrin, Adderall, Topamax, and Klonopin.

Also treating Conversion Disorder/Functional Neurological Disorder, GAD, specific phobia, ADHD, and Borderline Personality Disorder.

My mom keeps a bag full of meds that didn't work for me locked up away so I don't get into them.

Did abilify cause you to be irritable? My doctor took me off of it in case that was the reason I was so irritable and irritated at EVERYTHING. I have noticed a slight difference in a good way, but I have noticed that I have more anxiety. Idk if that's from stopping the medication or not.

There's been a few over the years like Luvox and Trazodone which both turned me into a zombie, so they were very useless.
There are many others that I don't remember.

I am in the process of lowering dosage and eventually coming off risperidone. Hope i don't flip!

I've had a few that were useless. Lately it's been Viibryd. It was supposed to ease my depression but instead it ramped up my anxiety. Now I'm on a low dose of Latuda and I still have some anxiety, but it's manageable.