Posted by bleauberry on January 23, 2010, at 11:51:32
In reply to Lamictal is ruining my life, posted by Girlnterrupted78 on January 22, 2010, at 19:10:16
Lamictal seems like magic for some people, but is absolutely horrible for others. For example, a quick trip to suicidal lethargy for me would be to ingest lamictal. Poison for me.
We kind of have to listen to what our bodies are telling us. Whatever a piece of literature says, whatever a clinical study says, how good a med worked for someone else, whatever our doctor says...none of these things matter one whit. All that matters is what the drug does to you. In your case, your body is saying lamictal is bad, and your body is saying parnate is on the right track but by itself not capable of fixing whatever is wrong.
There is no doubt you have plenty of neurotransmitters. A deficiency of any of them, while on Parnate, I seriously doubt it.
But what could be happening is the feedback loops are preventing the neurotransmitters from being used. In other words, there are plenty of them in storage, but on the receiving end the umpire is saying, "we have genetic instructions to not fill this bus, so back off." If that were correct, then meds to look at in order to interrupt the feedback loops and get some flow going would be Buspar, Pindolol, Abilify, Risperdal, Zyprexa. Basically, put a blindfold on the umpire so all those neurotransmitters can flow again.
A crude way to look at it, without any proof, but then, there isn't any proof of anything in psychiatry.
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