Posted by francesco on February 15, 2004, at 8:02:00
In reply to Re: only benzos ? » francesco, posted by Chairman_MAO on February 14, 2004, at 8:35:16
> For what it's worth, my experience with Trileptal (oxcarbazepine) has been remarkable. At 600mg/day, it helped a litte, but at 900mg/day, taking 150mg of Wellbutrin has hardly been agitating at all, and on day 5 of the Wellbutrin, I can barely feel its effects at all. Before Trileptal (even on diazepam), I felt quite disorganized mentally and a dysphoric buzz on 150mg Wellbutrin. My psychologist told me a lot of her adult ADD patients respond well to mood-stabilizers.
Thanks for the support, I tried Trileptal alone for a couple of weeks at 300mg. It was not bad, it helped also with concentration issues but I'm concerned about the flattening of emotions that many reports on the mood stabilizers and that, unfortunately, affected also me. Did you experience something like that ? My psychiatrist wants me on a mood stabilizer but I'm not so sure I want to be on them. I don't like to be on xanax, I'm scared about withdrawal and I fear that what I have experienced recently *can* be a benzo withdrawal (instead of lithium or parnate withdrawal). I didn't realize I had been taking oxazepam in the period I was making experiments with meds, never thought about benzos as something potentially addictive, even if, of course, I knew. My psychiatrist didn't precribe me benzos but he said I could take it, and that was probably a mistake, because I need straight instructions because of my adhd features.
Anyway, I'm not depressed but still confused about what to do. I'm worry about taking meds again because the last times I tried I made a mess, and worry about not taking them because I have to study for my PHD.
Ok, I'm a little depressed ;-), and I'm complaining, which is one of my favourite hobbies. Your first experience with Wellbutrin seems comparable to mine, I guess that I could start to tolerare antidepressants if I take a mood stabilizer. I'm trying to make some order in my disoder ... I have four options and a question:
1. quit all the meds and psychiatry stuff and see what happens. Consequence: I'm likely to recover physically but having problems with studying.
2. see a psychiatrist I've heard that has been told me to treat people with herbs and so on. Consequence: probably a waste of time3. wait for my psychiatrist to come back (it's in the us now and he will be here again in two weeks) and follow his instructions without trying to cure myself without having the sufficient knowledge and mental health to do it.
4. see another psychiatrist before he comes back and listens to what he says.
question: do you know which are the syntoms of benzo withdrawal ?
Sorry for the disorganization of the post, but I guess you can understand ;-)
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