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Jun 17, 2016, 03:56 PM
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Those of you who are taking several meds at once, can you tell how each one has an effect on you? Just something I was thinking about since I'm currently taking five. But each time one was added, it took away a certain problem I was having at the time.
Trileptal 1800mg Irritability, rage, dysphoric mania Effexor 150mg Depression Wellbutrin 300ms A dded on to help with the depression since I would sleep all day, it helped keep me up to do things Lamictal 200mg Mood stability Restoril 15mg Insomnia |
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Jun 17, 2016, 07:51 PM
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Prozac 20mg...depression, ocd
Lamictal 150mg...mood stabilization Geodon 80mg......rage, irritability, mania, psychosis, paranoia Saphris10mg.......rage, irritability , mania, psychosis , paranoia Trazodone 150mg....sleep Sent from my SM-T550 using Tapatalk
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#3
Jun 17, 2016, 09:05 PM
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Paxil: major depressive disorder, anxiety
Riperadone: Atypical bipolar 2, psychosis Visiril: insomnia I have OCD, MDD, PTSD, anxiety, atypical bipolar 2, insomnia, ADHD, psychisis, anorexia (mostly recovered), and dissociative amnesia. They kinda help with all but the amnesia and anorexia.
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#4
Jun 17, 2016, 09:53 PM
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Buspar: anxiety and depression
Nortritylene: depression and pain Welbutrin: depression and energy Cyclobenzaprine: sleep and as needed: Xanax: anxiety, sleep Ambien: sleep Zyprexa: out of control Nuvigil: energy None of the meds that I take for depression seem to make much of a difference. I have treatment resistant depression. I've tried a whole bunch of other AD, can't say that the ones I am on have any more of an effect. Pdoc just kept adding to the mix. For a while I was on Abilify to boost the AD. That didn't help much either. However, the depression seems to be lifting. It's been ages since I added any new drugs so I am not giving any of them the credit. |
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#5
Jun 18, 2016, 03:59 PM
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Latuda: Stabilizes mood, reduces depression and anxiety.
Zoloft: Antidepressant. Seroquel: Sleep, might reduce anxiety a little bit. Klonopin: Reduces anxiety. Hydroxyzine (Vistiril): Reduces anxiety. Propanolol: Reduces anxiety. Abilify: Antidepressant, mood stabilizer, hopefully calms my overthinking mind somewhat. |
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#6
Jun 19, 2016, 07:44 AM
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Psych meds-
Geodon: prevents racing thoughts, mania, paranoia & OCD but also helps with sleep Wellbutrin XL: anti-depressant Topamax: migraine prevention & mood stabilizer Gabapentin: reduces nerve pain, anxiety & OCD Ambien: prn-helps with insomnia
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#7
Jun 21, 2016, 02:41 PM
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Wellbutrin 300mg > less thougts about suicide, better sleeping
Venlafaxine 150mg > little bit less depressed |
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#8
Jun 21, 2016, 03:00 PM
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Latuda & lamictal ( I started them at the same time so took care of the same symptoms) great for my mixed mood symptoms and pretty sure they are the reason I'm still stable
Propranolol, anxiety Ambien, sleep
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#9
Jun 28, 2016, 10:09 AM
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150mg bupropion XL ---> depression
.5mg clonazepam x2 daily ---> anxiety 15mg Adderall XR ---> ADHD/ADD 200mg lamotrigine ---> mood stabilizer 50 mg topirimate ---> mood stabilizer BPII, ADHD, GAD, BPD, Conversion Disorder, dissociation events, intermittent panic attacks, specific phobia, just being angry in general (probably related to BPD) -CANNOT take antipsychotics. Couldn't even tolerate Abilify. That went poorly. Very, very, very, very, VERY poorly. Worst thing ever. Massive dissociative mental breakdown with recurrence of certain self destructive behaviors. NOPE. Psych was like "...Weeeeee're just going to avoid this med class all together." xD Even he noped out of that one pretty hard.
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#10
Jul 01, 2016, 06:06 PM
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Paxil: depression
Depakote: mood swings Invega sustenna: paranoia /delusions Seroquel: sleep Hydroxyzine: anxiety Sent from my A463BG using Tapatalk
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“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” -St. Francis of Assisi Diagnosis: Schizoaffective disorder Bipolar type PTSD Social Anxiety Disorder Anorexia Binge/Purge type |
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Jul 09, 2016, 01:44 AM
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Abilify Maintenna 400mg - Voices, Suicidal thoughts
Seroquel SR 600mg - Same as above + sleep Zonegran 100mg- Mood Swings Cogentin 1mg - Tremors from Abilify Buspar - 30mg takes the edge off my anxiety
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#12
Jul 12, 2016, 12:31 PM
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I take several meds but I can't tell which ones help which problem
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Jul 12, 2016, 09:21 PM
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45 mg Remeron - It is supposed to be for my depression, it doesn't help it but it is great as a sleep aid.
1mg Klonopin - Anxiety sort of works 20 mg Geodon - Psychosis, works a little bit. I can't tolerate more than this dosage. 300mg Gabapentin - nerve pain, works and helps my anxiety a little and seizures a lot. Any higher dosage gives me the worst headaches I have ever had. I take a few others for headaches and whatnot but have no bearing on my MH issues. After 20+ years, this is the best I have found and it still sucks.
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PDD with Psychotic Features, GAD, Cluster C personality traits - No meds, except a weekly ketamine infusion
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#14
Jul 14, 2016, 06:41 PM
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I noticed each med as I added them (well maybe not Lamictal for depression--but my pdoc likes it for mood control). I was on Seroquel but it gave me waking-up-in-the-night joint pain. I switched to Latuda which stopped that but gave me bad akathisia so we added propranolol till we got up to 80mg and that cured that. For sleep I had Ambien but it wasn't great. Switched to Lunesta which was better but not enough. Then I asked for 50mg of Seroquel to add and that works (no joint pain at that dose). Finally for the depression that was still there: Wellbutrin, now all the way up to 450mg with no problems.
It's definitely more drugs than I would want (with an occasional Xanax--though my supply of that is dwindling and my pdoc has turned anti benzodiazepine like all the rest it seems now), but for a while now everything has been hunky-dory. So I'm all in favor of med cocktails and I do think you can feel which is doing what, if you don't add them all at once. |
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Aug 13, 2016, 09:24 AM
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I am on s cocktail also and feel like sometimes I take I take everything thing in that a drug store has. But I am a BPII and after 10 years of hell they finally found a mix that works perfectly. I have been on this mix for 9 years and wouldn't change it for anything as it took me forever to find this solution. It also is not a standard Pdoc mix that fix me so god help me if they don't leave a clear trail. So don't worry about the cocktail just go with what works.
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Aug 14, 2016, 10:57 AM
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Gabapentin ~ anxiety
Ativan ~ anxiety Ambien ~ sleep Lamictal ~ mood stabilizer Effexor ~ depression Latuda ~ psychosis ( supposed to be taking zyprexa but I still have samples of Latuda so for now I'm sticking with Latuda) Haldol ~ psychosis Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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#17
Aug 14, 2016, 09:47 PM
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Everything in my signature below, although I need my doctor increase the Aventyl as the pain is not going away yet.
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