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MickeyCheeky
My echo is the only voice coming back
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#21
i used to take depakote. i suppose that would be it for me but that was the only one that was prescribed to me. Sending many safe, warm hugs to ALL of you, @BeyondtheRainbow, your Family, your Friends and ALL of your Loved Ones! Keep fighting and keep rocking NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS, OK?!
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BipolaRNurse
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#22
I take a lot of meds, but the glue that holds me together is Zyprexa. I was unstable on five meds, but it got better, and fast, when my pdoc put me on Vitamin Z. I’m not sure how I’d do off the Geodon (my other AP), but I’m really not interested in changing my regimen because it WORKS.
__________________ DX: Bipolar 1 Anxiety Tardive dyskinesia Mild cognitive impairment RX: Celexa 20 mg Gabapentin 1200 mg Geodon 40 mg AM, 60 mg PM Klonopin 0.5 mg PRN Lamictal 500 mg Levothyroxine 125 mcg (rx'd for depression) Trazodone 150 mg Zyprexa 7.5 mg Please come visit me @ http://bpnurse.com |
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Unrigged64072835
"'Cause in my head there's a Greyhound
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#23
For me my mood stabilizer, hands down. Once I started on Lamictal everything started evening out.
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Merlin
is holding onto hope and happiness.
Member Since: May 2004
Location: Alberta, Canada
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#24
Elavil, but due to reducing migraines. Abilify for the bipolar.
__________________ It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction! ---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859. |
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#25
For me it has been Wellbutrin
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#26
It’s Geodon and Vraylar for me. Once I started Geodon, I started consistently sleeping at night and I started getting better. Vraylar keeps me there for the most part.
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#29
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Lizzie1813
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#31
I can’t name just one. I need them all. I’ve been on Trintellix and Lamictal for years. Saphris is new as is Trazadone.
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#32
Ketamine and lithium.
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#33
I take cogentin for haldol for side effects and requip for risperdal akathesia. I feel ya!
__________________ Bipolar 1 w/psychotic features or schizoaffective bipolar type PTSD generalized anxiety OCD celexa, prazosin, Lybalvi and prn zyprexa and klonopin |
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#35
Benzos (the only med I have found I am not allergic to. I was also allergic recently to another... medical... thing. The rash is healing though with baby aveeno.)
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#36
I take Clonazepam primarily because it helps with my tinnitus. I don't think I could keep going without it. For a while it also helped with my anxiety and my anger issues, and it may still be doing so, but not as much as it was initially. I've read the benefits of Clonazepam, for anxiety, wear off after a few weeks. So it's not typically recommended for longer than 4 or 5 weeks I think it is. (Plus it's addictive.) But I expect to be on it permanently due to my tinnitus. Before I started taking it again, a few months ago (I had been on it previously for a while), I was definitely in a dark and scary place...
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#37
Like others have said, each med I take targets a different symptom and I don't think any of them are more important than the other - the constellation of meds is what works: lithium for mania, lamictal for depression, zoloft for anxiety, seroquel for sleep, and adderall as needed to focus. I started with lithium, and each one thereafter was added when the previous med stabilized it's target symptom. The stabilization of one symptom revealed the next that needed to be addressed.
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