Posted by garcia cortez on July 26, 2008, at 19:30:19
In reply to Re: meds and next psychiatrist » garcia cortez, posted by yxibow on July 26, 2008, at 16:35:20
The Xanax and the Ambien have been added because ALL Antidepressives cause hypomania and I cannot sleep. I trialed the SSRI's the tricyclics, trazadone lexapro Lamictal ect. and Remeron is the only one that causes the least amount of hypomania (over 30 mg causes outright mania as did Lexipro). I have been dianosed with manic depression in the 1970's but was later re-diagnosed with schizophenia due to hallucinations/delusions of megalomania and paranoia, flat affect ect. ( psychological testing reafirmed the schizophenic-paranoid subtype dianosis). The temperal lobe epilepsy was confirmed by EEG during multiple sleep studies that found intermmitant leg jeking that was causing up to 30 awakenings an hour (thus the Xanax and Ambien). The university hospital also had an neruo-psychopharmacologist review the medications and he said they were OK given my particular symtoms. I may be moving out of state so this would be the reason for getting a new psychiatrist (I also see a Psychologist 2X a month and a psychiatric nurse once a month to "explain away" phisical syptoms (hypochondria type delusions [ie. she says a person cannot feel one cell changing into a cancer cell, even though I think/feel I can; there are endless types of delusions/ obsessions of getting infected , ill ect.]). So I worry I will not get the medication I need from a new psychiatrist and will go back to that insomnic state that makes my schizophina ten times worst. I Will revert back into an unfunctional state(as I was before the XANAX and AMBIEN.
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