Posted by SLS on February 20, 2014, at 20:47:05
I don't wish to be mean or scolding, but I don't see that you are working with your doctor closely enough to come up with a plan and stick to it. You petition people on Psycho-Babble to give you answers to questions that you should be asking a doctor.
You are all over the place with drugs and diagnoses.
I mentioned to you hyponatremia. Did you follow up with your doctor about this?
What about providing a list of antipsychotics that you have tried and how you reacted to them? Did you decide against doing this?
Did you not like the Topamax idea? Did you present it to your doctor?
Have you tried Remeron?
What about giving Latuda a chance to work for depression? I actually found it good for sleep, even though it didn't provide me with the desired effect on mood.
You need to be more focused. In your present state, this is very difficult. Try to remain calm and relaxed. I think that it is inevitable that you will find the right treatment for your affective illness. You remain responsive to both anti-manic and anti-depressant drugs. In other words, you are not completely treatment resistant. It is quite possible that you could have been closer to finding an answer if you hadn't gone around in circles with Trileptal and Geodon.
I have seen people with bipolar mixed-states do well with a variety of treatments. I think you will do well with either a single antipsychotic or a combination of an antidepressant with a mood stabilizer or anti-manic.
You have so much to look forward to. Just don't sabotage the treatment plan that you and your doctor have chosen for you.
Does your doctor take your phone calls?
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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