Posted by Tabitha on February 7, 2005, at 13:44:17
In reply to No more Lithium + questioning dx, posted by slinky on February 7, 2005, at 3:29:45
I don't respond well to mood stabilisers either. Neurontin (I think that's gabapentin) was the only one I tolerated, although it made me oversleep. I feel better on just a low dose of SSRI. The pdoc always said the same-- if you're still depressed you need to add mood stabiliser. Yet they never seemed to help my depression at all and had bad s/e (poor thinking, dizziness, nausea, oversleep). I finally gave up on them. My hypomanias are rare, brief, and not too troublesome so I just don't bother to medicate them. I don't think pdocs have a great solution for bipolar II mostly depressed.
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