Posted by boomarang on October 3, 2004, at 12:25:31
In reply to Re: Soft Bipolar anyone? » boomarang, posted by karaS on October 3, 2004, at 1:00:10
hi there,
like many of us on this board i've tried practically all the a/d's. Unfortunately it's a sensitivity issue with me...the side effects usually emerge after a year and a half and i end up having to switch. The majority of the drugs worked just fine in terms of efficacy.However, with lamictal 'boosting' the cymbalta I am supposedly not going to need to go to such a high dose of cymbalta and therefore circumvent the side effect issue. Hope that makes sense. I will be going up 10 mg today on cymbalta to 40 mg just to see if i can get a little uplift.
I have never tried lithium, since lamictal has been fine so far.FYI, if we do have the same dx, one pychopharmacologist i went to three times (and paid $800 for the pleasure) said that the lamictal was key to the correct mix. For whatever that is worth. Still, as much as i fought not wanting to take it, the lamictal has so far 'i think' been a good addition. Who knows tho, I might be just the same on cymbalta without it. I'll be interested to see how you do on cymbalta by itself.
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