Posted by greywolf on November 4, 2009, at 20:06:30
In reply to Re: Anyone on Saphris? » greywolf, posted by Phillipa on November 4, 2009, at 11:40:01
> Greywolf I'm sorry the VNS didn't work any better. So still trying different meds. I'll have to look this one up. Love Phillipa
Hi Phillipa
It's not that the VNS has not worked. In fact, I'm still in the process of working my way up to the maximum power setting (it gets adjusted only every 2 months or so). And the VNS is intended to be used in conjunction with meds (a good thing, too, given how much I was on when I was off work for 6 weeks last spring).
As I'm sure you may recall from my posts over the years, I've been suffering from bipolar and OCD for a couple decades now. July and August this past summer was the first period of time that I felt a significant lightening of my mood for any extended time. Of course, I had my bad days, but for the first time in my memory, there were more good days than bad.
Unfortunately, the good times passed, and I'm now back in the grip of BP and the OCD is out of control. My psychiatrist added Saphris partly for mood control on the manic side, and partly to see if it could assist with sleep without turning me into a zombie like the Zyprexa does.
So far, I am not sure of any effect of Saphris other than it's the most foul tasting stuff I've ever taken (it's a sublingual tablet that dissolves and is absorbed into your bloodstream through the mouth). Hopefully, it works, but it would have been nice if Schering-Plough had spent a few cents on cherry flavoring.
In any event, I was hoping someone had experience with Saphris, particularly from the perspective of it causing fatigue and sexual side effects. Looks like I may be the one to report on it instead.
Greywolf
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