Posted by AnotherAnon on April 5, 2006, at 14:31:02
I feel like that is what my pdoc has been doing. I have been seeing her for about 3 years now and have stayed with her because she doesn't charge me anything (that's another story). Here's a med timeline:
I was put on Celexa when first diagnosed with "situational" depression. By the time I got to her, I was on Celexa and Klonopin (as needed). She switched me to Lexapro because that's what the drug reps were replacing Celexa with. Wellbutrin added on. Seroquel given for anxiety, but I only tried it a few times because it made me a zombie or the anxiety subsided on its own. Decided last summer to get off Lexapro and as my dosage dropped, realized that I felt "calm". She decided it probably was making me hypomanic. She also decided that I had "BPD-tendencies", but was not BPD. She gave me Neurontin (which had a paradoxical affect and made me wired instead) this past fall for anxiety. During the past few months, Klonopin has begun to make me feel suicidal when I take it, so I stopped it unless I REALLY needed to take something. She gave me another prescription even after I told her it made me feel suicidal. It was this prescription that I ultimately ended up trying to kill myself with. The hospital gave me Risperdal and switched me back to Wellbutrin XL, which she just took me off cold turkey because she thinks it's making me manic. Right now I'm dealing with severe anxiety and insomnia. So she gave me Seroquel again because she thinks the Risperdal and Wellbutrin have caused my recent anxiety. She also said to try Ativan if the Seroquel didn't work.
Here's the thing, she ultimately thinks many meds have had a paradoxical affect on me and that many meds push me into a bipolar spectrum. She even mentioned Lithium!
I've never experienced mania or hypomania according to the symptoms I've read...never had the high energy, grand delusions, need for less sleep, or anything like that. The only things I know I have experienced for certain are depression, anxiety and panic attacks.
If it's the meds making me occassionally bipolar, then shouldn't I just not take anything?
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