Posted by mellymel_d on September 18, 2005, at 23:56:45
In reply to Re: MY DOC ADDED ANOTHER PILL- HELP ASAP!!!, posted by ReadersLeaders on September 18, 2005, at 21:55:29
> > I posted this to my above post but I know some people just check the latest posts and I really need some support so I'm adding it here too...
> >
> > SO, now my neurologist added a pill for my nerve pain: neurtonin. I get home and google it (like I do everything) and see it's taken as a mood stabilizer too and could add more depression to some. So, let me update you:
> >
> > 8am I start my morning with 150mg wellbutrin sr.
> > 10am 1-2 vicoden for pain
> > 12- 200mgs neurtonin
> > 4pm- 150mgs wellbutrin
> > 6pm- 1-2 vicoden for pain
> > 8pm- 10mgs lexapro
> > 9pm- 600 mgs neutonin
> >
>
> What are you taking all these medications for? What's the diagnosis?
>
> Wow! Wellbutrin and Lexapro?! Why *two* anti-depressants?????
>
> PLEASE go get a second AND third opinion and see if you really need to be on all these meds.
>
> RL
>
>I had really bad anxiety in the past and the lexapro helped it all on it's own...Previously I've taken zoloft and paxil neither helped - I felt like a zombie. No feelings at all. But I was so happy with the lex and then BAM one day got smashed from behind by a car, I was in the hospital and when I got home had bad neck, back and sciatica in the leg (on top of this the bad pain was in the leg that I have scleroderma in.) Since everything was advancing and getting so bad they started to test to make sure the scleroderma wasn't out of remission (been in remission @ 10 years) SO I started getting really depressed on top of the anxiety and no longer was the lex helping. SO they added effexor- BAD BAD MOVE I had three horrible weeks on it and then the docs switched me to wellbutrin.
Anyway- what I was getting to is I see quite a few doc's: I go see specialists at Stanford for the scleroderma. I see a neurologist for the extensive nerve pain in my leg. I see a primary care doc (whom I've been seeing for 15+ years and she knows every single thing about me) and I see a therapist (whom listens to me complain and says don't worry -u worry too much, everything will be okay = in a very calm voice) All of the docs know the meds I am on and swear they are all okay with each other. I say if that's true- why am I still all screwed up???
The WB was supposed to help my depression, help lose weight, bring my sex drive back and stop smoking. YEAH as I sit here crying, on the couch (seperate from hubby) smoking and with bon-bons next to me, I find that very hard to believe. I've been on WB 10 days at 150mg and now 5 days at 300mgs= NOTHING.
Anyway, the docs told me the other day I just might end up with chronic nerve pain and be on the neurtonin for a very long time for it- So I'm suppossed to sleep my life away???
Sorry this is so long- I'm just so upset and feel at a loss...
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