I keep getting higher doses every visit with my psych doc, whom i see for a whole 10 min, smfh.

Trileptal 300 mg 2x daily
Wellbutrin sr 150mg 2x daily
Buspar 15mg 2x daily
Gabapentin 300mg 2x daily which was recently increased from 300mg daily (100mg 3x daily)

Klonopin 0.5 as needed

Seriously considering getting off the gaba. Hearing awful things and am petrified of the metabolic side effects, primarily weight gain. I struggle badly with body issues.
Then the rest. I don't feel better. I have been on meds on and off for years. Some helped for a while then they stop or i lost my insurance.

How do you know what's really not working?
Why just keep adding? I know dosage matters and everyone has their own cocktail they may need. I have had success in the past i just am on the most meds i have been on and feel like crap.
How do you know when it's the meds that could be keeping you sick? Or sicker?
I have been diagnosed with general anxiety, bipolar 1and2 , how?
Moderate /severe depression

Also suffer from nerve pain in my legs but that's sorta new. (6 months)

Im ok with the thought of needing meds I'm just so over this mixture. Just wanna start over which i know isn't fun.

I know these questions don't have concrete answers i am just scared and frustrated.

[Skeezyks]

Hello Imalooney: The Skeezyks has also been on-&-off med's over the years. I'm no longer on any med's... psych or otherwise. I do still have a pdoc. I've decided to just see him once a year now, just to keep my foot in the door, so to speak. When I do see him, it is also for a grand 10 minutes or so...

My experience has been that the pdoc I see will pretty-much give me whatever I want... & even some stuff I don't... if I'm willing! If I was agreeable, I could be on a whole medicine cabinet full of stuff! Any time I mention any little ache or pain, whether psychological or physical, he's ready with a med suggestion. So when you write that you keep getting higher doses with every visit to your pdoc, I'm not in the least surprised. That's the way it would be for me if I allowed it to happen. I don't.

As you wrote, there are no concrete answers to your questions. After a while, I think, the whole med-taking business just becomes so confusing one doesn't know what's working & what's not... what's helping & what's causing more trouble than it's worth. And, from my perspective, your pdoc doesn't know either. So, all you can do is to decide for yourself what you want to try as far as what you feel you need to be on versus what you think you may be able to get off of. Personally, I never felt any of it did enough good to justify the cost. I don't have anything against being on psych med's. And I would definitely take them again if I felt I needed to. But I'm getting along the way I am & I am leery of the way my pdoc is so willing to just keep piling on the med's. (By the way... despite that... I actually quite like the pdoc I see...)

Thanks for your reply!

Your doc and mine sounds a lot alike.
He will ask me what if been on what i want to be on. Uhmm you're the doc

The only thing he's not too liberal with is benzos which is probably a good thing

It's all so confusing and it's rare to get a good doc. Had one once that would see me for 30-45min! Actually talked to me and chose meds that he felt were good and talked thoroughly about side effects and risks.
Then i moved

My current doc tells me NOTHING.
I come home and find out that one lessens the effectiveness of my birth control!

Gee thanks doc.

I think it's time to switch and get some better med management. I know i probably need something but I'm tired of the random keep adding it on method.