Posted by Christ_empowered on April 6, 2014, at 13:01:47
I was thinking (generic) celexa and some kinda once daily Bupropion. Ups the number of pills I'm taking (sad), but might give better results. Also, Tofranil is SEDATING, and I suspect it may be causing some degree of cognitive impairment. Also, the dry mouth sucks. And the dosing is strange, because I'm on meds that might increase levels of imipramine and/or metabolites (trileptal, 1200mgs/day). Also, there's the whole "TCAs cause mania" thing to consider :-(
I just don't care for sri drugs. They make me feel too apathetic. Prozac made me a little antsy and flattened out. Celexa helped with psychotic depression (or..whatever you call my issues at the time....), but then it proved to apathetic-making after about 6 months.
On the plus side, lots of the older sri drugs are now generic. On the downside, there's so many to choose from. I need help with agitation and energy; concentration and mood; mild-ish ocd-kinda sorta tendencies, plus a tendency towards psychotic depression.
Ugh. I specifically requested Tofranil, from a public health doc no less, so now I feel bad. I don't like wasting their time when they're clearly dealing with people who are much sicker and/or incapacitated than I am. Also, I'm looking at 4 drug limit on my disability :-(
Current meds: up to 300/Neurontin (max 3 doses of 100mgs each), 150 Tofranil, 30 Abilify, 1200 Trileptal. I also do Orthomolecular, and I recently increased my niacinamide to a minimum of 6 grams/day. Works great, but it potentiates the sedating effects of Neurontin and if I take Tofranil on top....I'm zombie-fied.
So...yeah...I was thinking drop the Neurontin (I rarely take it anyway; my OM line up includes 4-6 grams Taurine and 6+ grams niacinamide, so I've got some GABA-action going with supplements), drop the Tofranil, keep everything else, and whip up a 2 AD mix that'll perk me up a lil bit and also calm me down. Ugh. I wish they still made Dexamyl :-(
Thanks for all your help, everyone!
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