Posted by JESSsMom on June 6, 2003, at 9:00:18
Hi All,
This is what I take daily--sounds overwhelming, I know, but I am often treatment resistant to meds, suffer greatly, and am debilitated by my GAD, comorbid depression, obsessional thinking, agoraphobia, and insomnia:
--112.5 mg Effexor XR for anxiety and depression,
--6 mg Gabitril (slowly titrating up)
--5 mg Xanax as needed
--50-100 mg Luvox intermittently for intrusive obsessional thinking and depression (I know "intermittently" is not beneficial to most but it helps me, excluding the agitation)
--30 mg Dalmane for the terrible insomnia caused by the GAD, depression, and of course the Effexor XR and the Luvox.The Effexor XR plays with my body temperature--I am so hot when everyone else is comfortable or even chilly. I used to sweat terribly on it until I found a remedy for that, thank God.
When I try to increase the Gabitril it knocks my socks off for the entire next day: flat affect, bad short term memory loss, and debilitating somnolence. But my pdoc, of course, wants me to increase the Gabitril so that I can eventually lower my benzo intake.
Also, the 30 mg of Dalmane causes extreme somnolence the next day. It's a hypnotic with a long half life. I am going to try to break a capsule in half tonight and only take 15 mg, but how on earth do you split a capsule without losing all the things inside? It's not like a tablet that I can just cut in half.
Any comments or advice are greatly appreciated.God Bless,
JM
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