Posted by blueberry1 on February 4, 2007, at 6:47:57
Best combo of all:
1. 20mg prozac + 5mg zyprexa + 600mg st johns wort. The morning butterflies and dread nearly gone. Motivated. Interested. But got distressing antipsychotic things such as twitches, head jerking, stuff like that. Actually 10mg prozac + 5mg zyprexa + 1.5mg xanax was pretty good too, but was only on it a week.
2. 20mg prozac + 5mg zyprexa + 300mg adrafinil. Pretty good years on this combo. The problem is that it was before the days of the morning butterflies and dread, so no idea how it would work today.
No matter what I tried in the last 3 years, if 5mg zyprexa was not in the mix, it was bad news. All current probs seemed to slowly begin when zyprexa was reduced from 5mg to 2.5mg. I loathe zyprexa. Hate it. But I can't argue with results. It really did make other meds work.
The thing that scares me about returning to a previous combo is that we all know how previous meds can fail a second time around, be completely different, or have tons of side effects that were never there before. Seems like a 50/50 gamble.
Even worse though is considering trying other things. Venturing into new drugs has been severe punishment for me. I do not feel I have the endurance or the courage to keep trying and failing things, when I look back and see what did work fairly well.
Just wish I had a better handle on the diagnosis.
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