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#1
Mar 24, 2017, 07:35 AM
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what has been your best and worst med? you can say more than one if you want.
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#2
Mar 24, 2017, 08:23 AM
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Best: Abilify - Takes away a lot of the psycosis but has no side effects.
Worse: Depokote- I felt like I was trapped in my body
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#3
Mar 24, 2017, 08:53 AM
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Best- risperidone. I got much better quite quickly after starting it.
Worst- clomipramine. Gained a bunch of weight and it didn't do anything for me. |
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#4
Mar 24, 2017, 09:34 AM
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Best - Lamictal, it virtually stopped my irritability and deep depression.
Worst - Luvox & Trazodone, both turned me a drooling zombie. |
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#5
Mar 24, 2017, 10:04 AM
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Best: Clozapine. Has stabilized me when nothing else would
Worst: Geodon. Made me vomit, gave me insomnia, and didn't help at all |
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#6
Mar 24, 2017, 10:10 AM
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Best - Lamictal? It's the only med that hasn't given me trouble, but I have no idea how well it works for me, honestly. Seems to have gotten rid of most of my irritability?
Worst: Abilify. Did jackshit for me. Was basically a sugar pill. I mean, it kinda worked? But I barely got anything useful out of it. |
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#7
Mar 24, 2017, 10:11 AM
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Best - Latuda
Worst - Trazadone and Lithium |
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#8
Mar 24, 2017, 10:18 AM
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Best: Rexulti. No side effects and I feel pretty good on it.
Worst: zyprexa! I gained a bunch of weight and my liver almost had cirrosis!! Boo zyprexa!
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#9
Mar 24, 2017, 12:06 PM
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The best and worst meds have changed over the years, for me. It used to be SSRI's that helped most; they don't really do much anymore. Klonopin was fabulous for the first 2 years, until I built up a tolerance to it. At this time Latuda is helping me most.
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#10
Mar 24, 2017, 12:59 PM
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Best: Abilify. 5mg. I substituted the lithium with it. So far so good.
Worst: Trazodone and lithium. Athought Lithium worked, the side effects are unbearable. Trazodone should be out of the market IMAO.
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#11
Mar 24, 2017, 03:41 PM
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Best: Trileptal
Worst: Seroquel |
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#12
Mar 24, 2017, 04:40 PM
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Best: Lamictal: helped enormously with depression and irritability
Best: Seroquel ONLY when manic, otherwise makes me a zombie So-so: Klonopin: but I'm only allowed an extra 1mg 10 pills/mo and it's the extra 1mg that helps the most. Worst: Any AD (I tried several before being diagnosed) Maybe-worst: Abilify: doesn't help with depression or anxiety, though may be helping in staving off mania, as I haven't had a manic episode in a couple of years since taking it. |
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#13
Mar 24, 2017, 05:37 PM
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Best: Seroquel (as much as I don't like some of the side effects, it's the one thing that helps with sleep and mania, including mixed mania), Klonopin
Worst: Zoloft, Wellbutrin |
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#14
Mar 24, 2017, 05:51 PM
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Best: Trileptal & Latuda
Worst: Seroquel & Saphris |
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Mar 24, 2017, 05:55 PM
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Best, latuda and wellbutrin
Worst, seroquel made me sleep 14 hours a day. Abilify have me horrid akathesia. Not sure which one i hate more.
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#16
Mar 26, 2017, 12:50 AM
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Best: Zyprexa, even though it made me gain weight initially. I've been on it for the past three years, and it's kept the mania away.
Worst: Wellbutrin. It made me manic and psychotic. I'm still making amends for that episode. 'Nuff said.
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#17
Mar 26, 2017, 02:44 PM
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Best for my main medicine, an antipsychotic, has been Latuda. It's kept me stable for a number of years now. I don't know how it would work to bring me down from a crisis; it might not be strong enough. But if keeps me from having episodes in the first place, so much the better. Few side effects.
In honorary categories: propranolol for effectively eliminating the one big bad of Latuda which is akathisia. Wellbutrin for depression, and low dose Seroquel for sleep. Oh, and Xanax PRN but at a dose of 2mg which I know is high. Useless drugs: all the SSRI's--didn't even give me side effects. Seroquel at antipsychotic doses: weight gain and really painful joint and muscle pain--the reason I had to stop it. I quit Abilify for akathisia--couldn't find an effective dose of Cogentin which didn't screw up my eyesight. Maybe propranolol would have worked. |
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#18
Mar 26, 2017, 03:23 PM
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Best: klonopin
Worst: Risperdal |
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#19
Mar 26, 2017, 04:00 PM
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Lamictal, vrylar and adderal
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#20
Mar 26, 2017, 06:09 PM
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Best: Latuda so far.
Worst: Depakote. Did nothing for my depression. Also Geodon as it prolonged my QT into the danger zone. |
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Mar 26, 2017, 11:02 PM
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My best is lamictal. My worse are seroquel and klonopin.
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#22
Mar 26, 2017, 11:12 PM
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best: Emsam and clozaril
worst: geodon,prozac, lamictal
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Bipolar 1, PTSD, GAD, OCD. Clozapine 250 mg, Emsam 12 mg/day patch, topamax 25 mg, ,Gabapentin 1600 mg & 100-2 PRN,. 2.5 mg clonazepam., 75 mg Seroquel and 12.5 mg PRNx2 daily |
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#23
Mar 27, 2017, 04:14 AM
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Best - Clomipramine, Worst - Imipramine (made me way too sleepy, would sleep like 3 hours after taking it).
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#24
Mar 27, 2017, 05:06 AM
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Can't choose, they all suck in their own wonderful way. I guess the easiest to tolerate and for effectiveness is Clonazepam, but then comes the addiction. Abilify has been a winner with almost no side effects.
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#25
Mar 27, 2017, 09:03 AM
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Best: Klonopin and Lamictal
Worst: Effexor, and recently Wellbutrin did me a bad turn
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Meds: Latuda, Lamictal XR, Vyvanse, Seroquel, Klonopin Supplements: Monster Energy replacement. Also DLPA, tyrosine, glutamine, and tryptophan
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