Posted by CEK on June 12, 2006, at 16:33:14
In reply to Re: Vitamins for Anticonvulsants » CEK, posted by fairywings on June 12, 2006, at 15:26:32
My pdoc has diagnosed me as bipolar 2 with rapid cycling and mixed episodes with major depression and GAD. Antidepressants didn't help and I had bad side effects from the antipsychotics, Lithium and Depakote made my depression worse so he is trying the Lamictal. I see him next week Monday and I'm going to talk to him about it. I spoke to him 2 weeks ago about adding something to the Lamictal but he didn't want to. He wants to wait til I get up to the maintaince dose and see how I do. He thinks this may be the right drug for me and that I won't need anything else with it other than the Klonpin. I didn't mention anything about the side effects because I wasn't sure if they were just temporary. They seem to be getting worse now so I'm going to tell him next Monday. Did your headaches go away? Are you still on the Lamictal and for how have you been on it? My depression is very bad. I hope Lamictal will be strong enough to get rid of it. I'm thinking about asking him about Provigil to see if it would help at all with the depression, fatigue and lack of motivation. I've seen 3 pdocs and they all act like we're running out of options.
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