What medication combo have made you stable

OKay maybe not 100% stable but feeling alot better...Ill post mine here first...Im not 100% very feeling way better than I was...

Klonopin 1mg 3xday (ive been on this dose for nearly 4 years) for anxiety attacks

Lamictal 200mg daily (for mood stabilizer)

Trazodone 150mg at bedtime (for sleep)

Guanfacine 2mg (for night terrors)

Geodon 160 at night (for schizophrenic features/voices & seeing things, still do but not as bad)

Lithium 300mg in the morning and 600mg at night (bi-polar)

I'm only on two, seroquelXL and lamotrigine... In the past I've been on over a dozen different anti depressants, and none of them worked. Some of them did nothing, one of them made me manic. But I was on lamotrigine before seroquel, and it actually had an anti depressant effect without sending me over the edge. At that time I was on rispiridone which helped with the psychosis, but the side effects were not just awkward, but potentially dangerous. The seroquel has a similar anti psychotic effect, without causing my body to go way out of whack.

I'm going to have to talk to the doctor on Monday though... I'm having great difficulty staying awake mornings, when I have to be up and do things. Some days I just give up and stay in bed.

It is however better than being psychotic.

I have been under treatment for depression for many years, and I found that the tri-cyclic antidepressants, especially Tofranil Pamoate [slow-release Tofranil]300 mg at bedtime, to work best for me. Unfortunately after many years I developed an allergy to the medication and by that time, the SSRI's were the drugs of choice for depression. I do not find them to be nearly so helpful for depression. They do help, however, and this may be just a personal thing. Most of the tricyclics have the adverse effect of being too sedating, but this was minimized in the Pamoate [slow-release] version of Tofranil, I suppose because the side effects were more spread out with the slowed release, and therefore less intense. Tofranil was the first medication that I was put on for depression, and I recall that it made all the difference in the world, and that, for the first time in my life, I understood why people said "good morning" to each other! This is just a personal reaction and may not apply to the general population. billieJ

mgran alot of ppl ive talked to have said seroquel made them overly tired when they had to take it during the day so yeah talk to your doc about it....I so understand billyJ.....i do hate some of the side effect i get from mine tho, ive tried to figure which one is doing it but i think its a combo effect...sometimes when im typing i totally type something i didnt mean to. just a word or something. Or if im talking to someone ill replace a word with a word thats totally weird that doesnt even fit into the convo we are having lol....its odd but liveable....a bit annoying when im trying to make a point tho.

Earlier this week I was planning on cutting down the seroquel, made an appointment to talk about it... then I had two such really bad days that I had to call the emergency doctor out last night. He increased my seroquel and gave me a small amount of diazapam (I hate that stuff) to take the edge of my paranoia and fear.

But possibly the reason I got so bad is because i had a stomach bug? Anyway, I'm not eating for a few days to give my stomach time to settle. The doctor told me to take an extra hundred seroquel in the morning, and it hasn't knocked me out at all. And even despite the medication I found it very hard to sleep last night, kept waking up.

But I'm calmer today, and that's an improvement. this is the only really bad glitch I've had in ages. Sometimes I fear I'm never coming off the meds.

I miss Lamictal. It worked for years, then when I was having difficulty pdoc titrated up too quickly and I got the "rash". Can't ever take it again. Currently I am on Welbutrin, Geodon and Ativan. I was non-compliant with haldol for years and they finally switched me to Geodon. (I couldn't handle the lag I got with other anti-psychotics and would not take them)

I'm sorry you've had such annoying side effects, WP... I've just heard from my doctor that he's still going to let me titrate down a bit on my meds, starting Monday next week. Looking forward to it!

Don't know what I'd do if I had a problem with lamactil. My mother had very bad experiences with lithium... I really don't want to have to try it.

when you first are diagnosed with schizophrenia, about how long does it take for symptoms to decrease? Do hallucinations go away? My son has them all day everyday.

It took the Geodon about two to two and a half weeks to really tell a difference...however i was inpatient and was getting shots of Geodon when needed so I cant really tell you how fast cause i was getting it two ways. Oh and no mine hasnt gone away I still have them. But instead of in my face, loud, agressive voices (the visual are gone) they are more like back ground noise, like driving with your radio on low, you know its on but unless you pay close attention its just noise, ya cant tell what song...sorry thats the only way i can discribe it...