Posted by Christ_empowered on October 24, 2014, at 13:37:49
In reply to Re: Lamictal and diminishing return » Beckett, posted by oceansun on October 23, 2014, at 22:14:27
Interesting....I'm thinking about asking my pdoc to drop my 1200/trileptal and raise the lamictal from 100 to 200. Apparently, the Abilify+Lamictal combo has been studied a little bit for Bipolar I. Higher doses of Abilify are good anti-manic and tolerable in terms of EPS and sedation, but not so much the best AD in the world. So, with Lamcital on board...seems clean, modern, and relatively safe.Anyway, Beckett...Lamictal does that to some people. Like, a relative of mine, she used to be on 400. Then, later during the day, her mind would wander and she'd have trouble finding words. She's usually quite articulate. At one point, the cognitive weirdness (which her former shrink didn't recognize, or chose not to) resulted in an "ADD" diagnosis, so now she's on a low(ish) dose Adderall XR.
Anyway, the old shrink moved away to the Mother Country and she got a replacement. Now, its 150/Lamictal w/ the 20mgs Adderall XR.
I think there are all too often also gender issues in psychiatry. I'm queer, so I usually like female shrinks. Male pdocs...man, they dope women and queers up, no lie. My current one is OK, I guess, but I miss my old female, European shrink. I say that because my female relative got a female shrink as a replacement, and now she's on a lower dose of lamictal and doing a-OK, no probs.
This post kinda rambled...sorry :-)
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