Posted by SLS on October 18, 2018, at 8:23:34
In reply to Re: Did Vraylar make anyone feel worse? » SLS, posted by bissie66 on October 17, 2018, at 18:14:26
Hi.
Regarding Vraylar (cariprazine):
> I am pretty scared to take it again and I've only taken it two days. Do you think I should keep taking it for a couple days? Hopefully people will report their experience. Maybe someone will say it made them feel bad for 3 days and then wonderful from then on.
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> I don't think I can take it, knowing how I felt this morning. I know depression very well, even bad depression, but this was, well, as you said, significantly worse.I often have a difficult time recommending to others a course of action, primarily because we all react so differently to the same drugs. I wouldn't want to be responsible for someone missing their best opportunity to get well.
In what ways is your depression worse or different from what you usually experience?
Why are you convinced that ECT is your only recourse at this juncture? What was your experience while taking MAOIs? My best responses in the past have been to a combination of MAOI and TCA. I would probably have lived my last 30 years in remission had my old doctor not withdrawn a combination of Parnate + desipramine. I was in remission for almost a year while taking it. I cannot fault him too much, though. I had become manic as a reaction to treatment. When I relapsed into depression, he refused to treat me with the same drugs. I might have been able to tolerate them if he would have kept me on lithium and clonazepam (Klonopin). It's hard to know.
Is there any history of bipolar disorder in your family?
I am currently taking:
Nardil 45 mg/day
Nortriptyline 100 mg/day
Lamictal 300 mg/day
Lithium 300 mg/day
Prazosing 30 mg/dayI have been better since introducing the Nardil. I had a horrific summer. I discontinued Parnate and tried taking Trintellix in June. It looks like I had a bad reaction to it. I was left with a worsened depression and terrible brain-fog. This persisted for months after I stopped taking it. There are still some residual negative effects, but they have been dissipating gradually.
- 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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