Posted by Ritch on January 13, 2005, at 10:23:49
In reply to Re: Bipolar ll: Tried it all! Nothing works-Need H » Michelle123, posted by zero on January 13, 2005, at 0:08:52
> Since you seem to be stressing the IRRITABILITY part, it brings to mind the place where bipolar meets borderline (are lots of theories on this).
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> For this, there's a combination of Prozac (start 1st, take daily for 1 week), then add Tegretol (mood stabilizer).
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> I can't tolerate Prozac, but Tegretol helps me big time with IRRITABILITY, plus your list indicates you haven't tried Tegretol yet (don't mistake it for Trileptal, it's chemical cousin - very different effects). Tegretol is great for anxiety also.
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> Hope this helps.
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> z.
> (Bipolar II w. Irritability, Anxiety)Hi, sorry to switch gears somewhat, but you brought up a very interesting topic about the difference between Trileptal and Tegretol. I've only tried Tegretol once (a long long time ago) during a bad depression (as a switch from Lithium) and it didn't seem to help the depression ... but I only tried switching for a couple of weeks and then went back to lithium. Anyhow, I've been on Trileptal for a few weeks in the last few years and found I couldn't tolerate it due to bad nausea. So you have been on Teg and Trileptal at separate times and found the Tegretol to be different? Can you elaborate somewhat on what the differences were? Just curious, because I got a REALLY good anticyclic response from Trileptal (better than anything else in fact), and it worked on irritability just as good as Depakote. Just wondering if maybe I would actually tolerate Tegretol a lot better than Trileptal and it would work just as well....
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