Posted by Chairman_MAO on February 14, 2004, at 8:35:16
In reply to Re: only benzos ?, posted by francesco on February 14, 2004, at 7:38:50
I'm not an MD or PhD., so I can't give you any opinion on what is causing your symtpoms because, as you said, you've been on so many drugs. I doubt very much the Stelazine at that dosage for that time did anything. MAO activity is supposed to recover after Parnte within 3-5 days, AFAIK, so I don't think that could be the culprit, either--at least not alone. Your hypothesis is probably correct, but I'd ask you doctor about this. I know that my doctor, after I tried and failed 3 antidepressants over a 6-week period, made me stay off antidepressants for a week, but stay on my mood stabilizer, to allow my brain to sort things out. Otherwise, he said, he'd have no idea what he was treating.
The "downstream" effects of benzodiazepines are also mostly beyond the scope of my knowledge, but I'd imagine that, given their anticonvulsant prowess, they correct abberent brain activity enough to be helpful in your situation. My advice would be to work out a mood stabilizer during this time and then continue looking for the right medication after you've sorted your current problem out; you don't want to create a benzo dependency because of this!
For what it's worth, my experience with Trileptal (oxcarbazepine) has been remarkable. At 600mg/day, it helped a litte, but at 900mg/day, taking 150mg of Wellbutrin has hardly been agitating at all, and on day 5 of the Wellbutrin, I can barely feel its effects at all. Before Trileptal (even on diazepam), I felt quite disorganized mentally and a dysphoric buzz on 150mg Wellbutrin. My psychologist told me a lot of her adult ADD patients respond well to mood-stabilizers.
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