Posted by BarbaraCat on August 18, 2002, at 23:53:28
In reply to Re: I would revise your categories » BarbaraCat, posted by MomO3 on August 18, 2002, at 0:14:05
You say you are taking lithim, are you taking anything else (I have to assume you are - don't I?)?
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Yes, I'm taking a bunch of others. Remeron, I've cut back from 75mg to 45 and will continue on down as far as I can. The combo of Remeron and lithium has caused me to plump up in that I've gained 25 lbs that I haven't been able to budge. I'm also taking Neurontin which helps with the anxiety but I'm not sure if it's doing all that much to tell the truth. I take Ambien for sleep and lorezapam as needed for anxiety. I'm also on natural thyroid for hypothyroidism and natural estrogen and progesterone for menopause. I've been taking maca recently, which is a tuber grown in Peru that helps with balancing hormones and energy. It's helped alot, especially with fibromyalgia symptoms. Let's see, what else, high dose fish oil. Given all that, I'm still not feeling all that great and would love to find a combo that works. I still have alot of anxiety, sleeplessness, worry. But I think these times we live in breed such feelings and I know I'm not alone or especially neurotic for brooding. Exercise (alot of it) of any type is the best medicine for me. When I slack off I start feeling over-amped and tangled up.I was on Effexor for a short time and can't remember if I liked it or not. My longterm AD was zoloft which I was on for 6-8 years. Remeron is the only AD that didn't spin me off into a mixed states everytime I increased it due to the inevitable poop out. But who knows, maybe all I needed with all of my nonsuccessful meds was a little lithium? So much of my depression is due to high stress and anxiety reactivity, and the mixed states hell feels like a constant frayed wire. However, I have had the sluggish vegetative kind of depression as well and that has it's own miseries, especially when stuff keeps piling up and you just can't move off the couch. But given a choice, I'd take this kind any day over mixed states.
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