Posted by Chloe on February 24, 2002, at 19:49:51
I am bp 2 and have had a hell of a time trying to get my mood right. I seem to need alot of small doses of mood stabilizers and just a spinkle of AD or I get hypo-agitated, agressive, and/or mixed states. I feel like I am on a lot of meds. But my pdoc says low doses of all of them helps me tolerate the side effects better...But I hope it's ok to take all of these.
I have been having dizziness during the early evening hours about 7 hours after my morning 200 mgs dose of Neurontin. I take another 200 at bedtime. I am wondering if it's related to the spacing of the dosing of N. But since I started depakote, I was needing less neurontin during the day. The dep. seemed to make the N last longer.
BUT I got very flat and deeply depressed from the depakote so my pdoc added on the smallest bit, 112 mgs of Eskilith. Now I am still kinda flat, but not so depressed! But since adding that I get dizzy/anxious mid N dosing...
Do I need to space out the N more evenly now that I have added Li? Or add in another mid day dose? I really liked having the twice a day dosing...But the evening anxiety and dizziness is a bit disconcerting. I tend to be kinda slow and tired till mid afternoon, then the anxiety starts to creep in and remain for the rest of the day.Here is my current cocktail..
112 mgs Eskilith CR am (AD/stabilization)
200 mgs Neurontin am/pm (calming/stabilization)
250 mgs Depakote pm (anti-anger/stabilization)
1.4 mgs Celexa am (AD)
20 mgs Amitriptyline pm (for neuropathic pain)
5-10 mgs DiazapamAnyone have any thoughts on taking subtherapuetic doses of lots of meds?
And about the timing or dosing of the neurontin with the depakote?
Comments?
Thanks for letting me ramble. Sorry if it's a little incoherent...Sometimes hard to think straight:)
Chloe
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