Posted by jayb on December 30, 2003, at 19:18:26
Hi all, currently i'm on zyprexa, lithium, limictal, remeron, klonopin and trazadone. I'm experiencing great tiredness and weakness. I'm working on developing a career as a visual artist. I also experience hand tremors, poor coordination, cognition problems (can't follow a thought or read much)and some difficulty in forming words, slurred speech- these are all difficult/ to impossible for the kind of work I want to do. Also I have had 30# weight gain.
diagnoses include: bpII (heavy on depression), panic, ocd (pure obsessional) or gad, bpd or ptsd.
Questions:
1)Does this seem like an extreme number of meds?
2)How do I talk to the pdoc about reducing # of meds - I want to lose the lithium, remeron and lamictal (I do not think they are really helping)
I seem to be stablizing some in the past six weeks. I feel the depressive episode is ending on its own, not from adding lithium (600mg)
3) What kind of wholistic treatments have been useful for people. Exercise has helped me in the past, but it is very difficult to start and keep at it with all the side effects.
Thanks!
poster:jayb
thread:294849
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