Posted by chemist on July 30, 2004, at 22:20:19
In reply to Chemist - Xanax XR Sit. Clarified, posted by becksA on July 30, 2004, at 21:54:54
> I rescheduled that appointment....Basically whatever i have said in the past, what I'm looking to take is around 3mg Xanax XR daily. My most important issue right now however, is the emotions. I have been tackling depression for a while, but as I have said on here and in the past, it seems to come and go. I am VERY easily offended, excited, my emotions are very very sensitive, and they go way up and down...little things like a girl saying no to a date can ruin my next 3 days....Shoudl I ask about mood stabalizers? If so, I know NOTHING about this type of drug.
hello there, chemist here....thank you for clearing this up. you are currently taking a grand total of 4 mg of xanax XR - this is based on your earlier posts of 2 mg xanax XR two times each day - and are considering going to a three-times-per-day 1 mg dose of the immediate-release, ``old-fashioned'' form. in my opinion - and this is armchair psychiatry/psychology based upon the frequency of your posts and their content - there seems to be an OCD aspect to your behaviour. i do not hold an M.D., D.O., and am not a psychologist. i urge you to follow the advice Glydin posted above - if you are not doing so - and investigate your problem in depth. are your mood swings debilitating - can you not get out of bed after a bad dating stuation, or are you just ``blue'' - and is your euphoria accompanied by insomnia, weight loss, irrational and unusual impulsive behaviour that may well be damaging to you, or do you feel stimulated as if you're hopped-up on coffe and chocolate and the sun is shining? while these questions are not intended to make a diagnosis, the answers you provide can help you - along with your doctors - assess your condition. in the expanding plethora of maladies to which CPT/DSM-IV codes can be assigned, you might fall into OCD + GAD + panic attack with agoraphobia and bipolar II, in which case a mood stabilizer will be brought on-board. and then the fun starts - i have been there and done that and whether it was the right diagnosis or not seems irrelevant in hindsight - meds change, your living situation will change, and so on. so please assess the frequency and depths of your condition in consult with your doctor and, as Glydin wisely suggests - and which i universally forget/ignore in my posts - see a therapist if you are not already doing so. the fewer meds you have in your system, the better. what you describe is a quite favorable response to xanax. as i have wrote in my earlier replies to you, try augmenting that (i doubt that decreasing the dose will be beneficial) first: there is no need at this point to start in with mood stabilizers/ssris/tcas/etc. if you have done the requisite consults and, for that matter, a complete physical to rule out/confirm physiological factors. all the best, chemist
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