Posted by storm on November 27, 2001, at 7:53:52
In reply to Re: good mood stabilizer? Pamela Lynn » storm, posted by Pamela Lynn on November 27, 2001, at 1:31:41
I live in Mississippi :) but I do stay up way too late; it just seems like I feel better at night so I save all school work for night. I'm 19, at a community college.
> Storm,
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> Nope...no weight gain from either of them. Litium--YES; Depakote--YES, Remeron--YES. I could go on, but won't bore you with my list of meds. I have been on since I was 14!! LOL
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> I have to tell you though, in case you didn't read my previous post...that going onto Effexor, well....I could, and did stop taking the Topomax..(still take the Zyprexa, NEED that one!). I know everyone is different...but....I try to take the least amount of meds. possible, and the Effexor helped me so much that I tapered off the Topomax and haven't been on it in months. It WAS a good mood stabilizer for me though, it really was.
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> WOW...I couldn't believe how quickly you responded back to me...do you also suffer from insomnia like I do? Or are you in a different time zone? (I live in New Jersey).
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> And, YES...with the Lithium I felt like a pin cushion!!!!
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> P.L.
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> > just wondering, did you gain weight with either of them? thanks again :)
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> > > Oh Storm, I hope I have been of some help to you. Yes....please do look into both of these meds.
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> > > A note on the Zyprexa....for me, I started out on a 'high' dose, daily of it.....I was like a zombie at the higher dose. What my shrink and I found to work best was to have 2.5mg's in the morning, then around 2pm another 2.5mg's then 5mg's at night before bed (helps me get to sleep too...not stay asleep however!LOL). I just wanted you to know that at high doses of the Zyprexa you could be zombied out, but that at a lower, maintained dose, you might just do as well as I now do on it.
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> > > Drop me a line, if you like....P.L.
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> > > > I really didn't know where to start. thanks so much, I'll look into both :)
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> > > > > Hi Storm!
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> > > > > Have you looked into Topomax for the mood disorder? Just a thought...I was on it before and it worked out for me.
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> > > > > As for an anti-psychotic med...I am a TRUE BLUE believer and user of Zyprexa. I take 2.5mg doses throughout the day-3 times a day to be exact-and this med. has really helped me out.
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> > > > > Take care.
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> > > > > P.L.
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> > > > > > I suppose an antipsychotic would work too. for racing thoughts, obsessing, etc. I looked at depakote and tegretol. tegretol will probably react with what I'm on from what I've read; but both have Soooo many side effects. I really don't want either of those. is there something more safe than those? sorry this is so long :)
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> > > > > > > I've been on lithium, it helped alright but I've started gaining weight from it. (either that or neurontin has caused weight gain, but I'm assuming the lithium). it seems like when I gained the weight I was eating more, and wouldn't neurontin just cause water retention mostly? been on neurontin about a year; I've been on lithium about two years and it just started getting bad, but when I went off prozac it happened. and my theory is that the prozac counteracted the lithium making my appetite bigger. so my weight was mostly stable until recently. I wish I knew, but it's just a guess.
> > > > > > > I'm currently still on neurontin and serzone. neurontin helps more than anything I've tried, more than all the antidepressants that didn't work, etc. but the only mood stabilizer I've been on is lithium. & I recently took geodon and had to quit because of side effects.
> > > > > > > so my problem is, I need something else, another mood stabilzer to replace the lithium. any suggestions? thanks :)
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