Posted by MoparFan91 on August 27, 2005, at 20:13:38
In reply to Terrible Feelings, posted by felixbabble on August 27, 2005, at 18:03:27
I'm sorry you're feeling horrible. I hope you feel better soon. ;-)
What you might want to do is ask your doctor about raising your Lamictal. Max dose for Lamictal for bipolar is 600mg, so you're only at 1/3 of that. 200mg is just the average target dose, but some people need more to get good response.
If he does want to up the dose of Lamictal, you might also want to ask him about adding a very low dose of an atypical antipsychotic to get you out of the depression and to help you along until you get your Lamictal up. There are some atypicals to choose from: Abilify, Zyprexa, Geodon, Risperdal, and Seroquel.
Good dosage levels for this temporary application would be: 2.5-5mg Abilify, 2.5mg Zyprexa, 40mg Geodon, 0.5mg Risperdal, or 50-100mg Seroquel. Seroquel and Zyprexa are most sedating and very helpful for sleep. Abilify tends to be more activating. Geodon can go either way depending on the person. Risperdal is intermediate.
I took 2.5mg of Abilify when I got severely depressed, and the depression lifted a bit overnight. We increased my mood stabilizer at the same time. I had the same quick response from low dose Geodon.
> I posted a few days ago but got no reply.
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> I am terribly depressed, I have had few "high" feelings but none for a few weeks. I am totally hopeless. I have had professional care, sorta, for the past year.
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> I have been on Lamictal for most of the last year, currently taking 200mg. I was on celexa and didnt feel it did anything for me. I was also on serequel for sleep but it made me feel groggy and didnt even make me sleep that well.
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> I have now started taking Restoril (For a week so far) for sleep, but it does not seem to work. I am
> also starting Effexor on Monday.
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> I have a final next week, and I really don't care at all. If I fail I may get booted out of school, and I really don't care.
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> I have feelings some times of why go on, whats the point? Sometimes I think I should end it, sometimes I wish something bad would happen to me.
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> I really can't se anytype of future at all.
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> Has anyone else had a situation like this? or these feelings.
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> Here is the post that I didnt get a reply to, I posted it twice on the same day in "newbies" and here in babble, the only response I got was to the one in "newbies" telling me it was moved to babble. So now its in here twice.
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> http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20050821/msgs/546924.html
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