Posted by llurpsienoodle on November 2, 2007, at 9:30:25
In reply to Re: somethings you should know about being bipolar » Racer, posted by twinch42085 on November 2, 2007, at 0:48:43
I did well on 300mg of seroquel, but gained too much weight. Geodon was *okay* but VERY sedating, which did not go away after several months, plus I got horrible side effects when pdoc raised my dose from 180 to 240. I thought I was going crazy.
I've been stable (?) on abilify for about 3 mos now. I take klonopin when I get super agitated (which happens several days a week). I also take it when I get very anxious, but usually I try to isolate myself to deal with anxiety.
After I got out of the hospital pdoc started me on accelerated taper of lamictal for the depression phase of bipolar, so I take lamictal and zoloft for the depression stuff and lamictal and abilify for the hypomania, and I'm still trying to find a way to deal with the agitation. I've just joined a gym, and am hoping to exercise all the agitation out of me.
old pdoc said that "one day there will be a bipolar diagnosis for people like me". great. I can hardly wait for DSM-V. Like I didn't have enough problems already.
-Ll
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