Posted by fires on August 11, 2005, at 17:19:40
In reply to Re: Effexor and Lamictal?, posted by med_empowered on August 11, 2005, at 16:37:03
Wow. That's a lot of info. to digest. Thanks.
I failed to mention:
SSRIs have been very bad for me.
I experience relatively mild hypomania. I'd rather have that than the depression that I've experienced, therefore I'm hesitant to take only a mood stabilizer.
I tried Zyprexa with Remeron, but had an episode of MDD while on those. Effexor relieved the depression in about 6 weeks.
I'm now tapering off of Klonopin. Provigil has been mentioned as an add-on to the Wellbutrin and Lamictal that I'm now taking. I'm only up to 75 mg of Lamictal.
Maybe I'll do OK on Wellbutrin 300 mg + 100-200 mg Lamictal. Parnate is the only other antiD that has worked for me, so it may be needed if I experience another episode of MDD. I can't be sure that Wellbutrin is keeping me from experiencing another MDD episode. (I can only know that for sure with meds that have brought me out of depression).
I can handle the Parnate diet, but I don't like the med. restrictions, especially the one for epinephrine.
My official Dx at this time is BP NOS.
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