Posted by Christ_empowered on September 5, 2011, at 11:13:45
I take 30mgs Abilify and 50mgs Lamictal, with a target dose of 200 for the lamictal. The plan is to get me up to 200 lamictal and decrease the Abilify to 15.
Overall, I'm starting to feel better. The "voices"-more like thoughts I can hear and that distract and bother me-have become less frequent and less intense. I have more energy. My sleep patterns seem to have normalized after a period of sleeping entirely too much, too often.
The thing is, I'm really, really tired of hearing these voices and having these thoughts. I hate to say I want a magic pill to take it all away, but I do sometimes think a low-dose SSRI might be beneficial. I was thinking low-dose Prozac, since I'm prone to a bit of lethargy. Also, with the Prozac on board I could further decrease the Abilify to 7.5 mgs b/c of its interaction with Abilify.
But I don't know. I don't want to be overmedicated or tranquilized into oblivion. I just want to be a little more stable and less tortured.
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