Posted by DayByDay on September 21, 2003, at 23:20:23
First of all I like to thank the people responsible for this site for being responsible for this site cuz it´s a good site.
I have depressions and ocd for quite some time now
also lately it happens occasionally that the depressive feeling is accompanied with stronger physical feelings of anxiety.
I´m also a bipolar III (a term used by some to defining a person who goes into mania/hypomania/mixed/rapid cycling states when taking an anti-depressant)All of the SSRI i´ve tried put me in a mixed state - the mood remains somewhere between depressed and normal (acceptable but not adequate) while other manic symphoms
occurs mainly a significantly increased amount of talking, over-active thinking and general restlessness. At most 30% of the OCD is removed leaving most of the annoying stuff still there, occasionaly it can also be intensified by the manic side-effects of the medication.My doc suggested me to try an SSRI with a mood-stabiliser, so I did try with Valproate.
I had a psychotic/halucinatatory/confusion side effect on it - it was really unpleasant and terryfing.
Then I tried Prozac with a low dose of Zyprexa
and a low dose of Lithium (still building up) and
finaly Prozac with only a full dose of lithium.Did it help with my bipolar III problem?
No, possibly a little (but I´m not even sure if it helped at all)The Zyprexa alone did not help me with my depression and worsened my OCD (although I´ve read it works as SSRI augmention for some OCDers)
and I´m quite firmly sure that the Lithium alone
wont help me enough (if at all) with my depression, and defenitely not with OCD.So now my doctor wants me to try Lamictal
while I keep the Lithium at least for a while
and taper of the Prozac.Does anyone have any experiece in treating depression (not relapse-prevention) with Lamictal?
How about it´s effects on Anxiety and OCD?Are there other medications for depression or OCD that does´nt have a potential risk for a manic switch?
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