Posted by JayBTV2 on December 23, 2009, at 9:52:55
In reply to Re: New 'cocktail' after yet another manic episode...., posted by herpills on December 21, 2009, at 13:33:58
> Yeah, I would ditch the Lamictal, it's not going to do anything for you at that dose. No sense in taking any med that isn't needed, could be contributing to the 'blah' feeling.
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> What about taking only 2 klonopin a day?
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> I'll be interested in hearing more about your experience with Deplin.
> herpillsWell I actually ended up changing back to my old doctor (even though he tends to overmedicate and he's gotten me manic before). But I was really depressed last week and wasn't particularly happy with the course the new doc wanted to go.
So anyway my old(current) doc raised the lamictal. Back up to 100mg (25mg increases every 3 days since I've been on it before). And I begged for Parnate so he started me at a really low dose of 10mg of that.
He kept me on the Klonopin but I've just stopped taking it. I know some people love it but I couldn't really tell a difference and if anything it could have been adding to my depression. I've taken one at night the last few nights (.5) to stave off any possible w/d effects. That's down from 3....
Thus I'm on:
Lamictal 75mg (100 in 2 days)
Lithium 900mg
Deplin 7.5mg
Parnate 10mg
Seroquel 100mg (essentially for sleep)Feeling MUCH better this week. Just need to make sure the parnate doesn't spin me off into psychotic mania where sadly I have the ability to go.
Seeing the doc again on 12/30 (week from today) and I think we'll probably raise the Parnate a bit - but that should be it. Really hoping to just get a "cocktail" that works and I can believe in. I've read a lot about Parnate around here so I'm very optimistic.
As for Deplin. He was kinda like it can hurt so stay on it. Perhaps that's finally kicking in as well. Either feeling much much better. The crazy dreams I was having w/ Deplin (I think it was Deplin causing them - slight chance it was the lithium) have finally abated.
Hope all is good,
-Jay
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