Posted by Tony P on December 22, 2003, at 19:34:56
In reply to Re: Lamictal for BPII -and no anxiety meds, posted by Lyrical13 on December 22, 2003, at 18:33:19
Thanks so much for your response - I am feeling much better after talking to my counsellor on the phone, seeing my MD, just getting out of the apartment, and feeling that people were taking me seriously -- how do you tell your boss (even if he's also a friend) that you feel like pulling your pillows and blanket into the den and lying there in the dark because it's safe ('cause it has no windows)???
My MD, bless him, has put me on 2 mg clonazepam twice a day for the next 10 days, by which time I'll be in to see my pdoc and follow up with the MD. He also put me on the Psychiatric emergency followup program, which I'd never heard of - they will call me, and I can also call them, to see how I'm doing over Xmas.
Seroquel is one of the options I'd wondered about, but the next choice recommended both by the pdoc and my MD is Effexor. Among the 3 professionals I'm seeing (!) we're not really sure how much I'm truly bipolar 2 or 3, and how much is the combination of changes in Rx medication and the excessive self-medication I've been doing with muscle-relxants (Robaxin) to try and cope with the physical tension -- which has a backlash, of course.
And thanks for the "mantra". I've been trying to keep up that kind of selftalk, too, but it also helps to hear it from someone else!
Tony
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