Posted by stargazer2 on November 26, 2007, at 11:49:29
In reply to Re: 40mg+!/Lamictal/brooke, posted by brooke484 on November 26, 2007, at 10:54:09
I agree, just stick with one thing at a time. more than one med can complicate things too, so your smart to take it slow and stick with just Marplan.
I took 30 mg Marplan in 1994, before it was discontinued, and it worked excellent for me. Last year in Feb, after I heard it was available again, I retried it with Lamictal and it didn't work. I think Lamictal may have complicated it's effects. I stopped Marplan in Sept and I see I only went up to 30 mg, perhaps I didn't go high enough. I hate when I find that out, since I could have responded to 40 if my pdoc had insisted I go a bit higher.
I think my effects were not good because the Lamictal caused memory and balance problems. I got scared and stopped only Marplan. Makes no sense now. I should have stopped just the Lamictal and increased the Marplan to 40.It all becomes clear in retrospect. At the time, I'm sure I was a mess so I wsn't able to think things through, but why didn't my pdoc?
I really don't think they know what their doing half the time. Alot of experimentation and guesswork. Sure, I'm the only one losing out of my life. They have all the time in the world to treat me. I get so aggravated sometimes about this, but I really like my pdoc despite my retrospective analysis of how he uses medications.
Lots of trial and error. It was at my insistence that we retry Marplan and Nardil. If I listened to him completely, I would be on Abilify or Seroquel, he loved those despite doing nothing for me. go figure...
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