Posted by desolationrower on April 30, 2011, at 4:05:32
In reply to Re: Antipsychotic side effects?, posted by B2chica on April 25, 2011, at 14:27:20
Hm, i would not try another antispychotic, or prozac - the drugs you have gotten worse on all are 5ht2 antagonists (and given prozacs long half life its hard to tell quickly how it will work). A anticonvulsant 'mood stabilizer' should be tried i think.
Also, i wonder if the irritability and the 'hypomania' are more an ADD problem than a BP problem. antipsychotics work by reducing dopamine function, and that might worsen ADD (the neurons here work sort of backwards..) Guanfacine might help with those, or you could have clonidine would would be useful for sleep as well
-d/r
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