Posted by Lushkins on April 3, 2005, at 10:28:04
In reply to Re: Bipolar II - SSRI/Lamictal - anxious » Lushkins, posted by CK1 on April 2, 2005, at 12:22:23
I had remeron poop out on me, I felt great for a month then rapidly felt depressed, I am still on this as when I try to get of it I get worse than before I first started it, sucks really. I have been on a number of SRRIs, cipramil made me VERY anxious, Zoloft made me go into a terrible state, cant really explain it suicidal, angry, violent to myself, hitting concrete walls smashing glass on myself, didn't sleep, bit of a blur, not good really. So I can probabily say that antidepressants don't work for me. I don't really know if I;m Bipolar or not, nither does my Dr, I have respnded well to lamictal but I take along time to adjust to each increase, it has some weird effects on me, I have been having intense anxiety lately, well at least for me, I'm sure alot of other people have worse here, I just hopoe it goes soon as its sticking around this time, I may have to go down a dose but I will stick with it for a while.
There is no history of Bipolar in my family, but I took too many drugs in the past, very stupid, but hindsight is beutiful thing. My uncle is schitzophrenic really badly, in hospital alot of the time, my other uncle suffers depression badly on the otherside of the family. So I geuss family history is there, I think thats what most Drs look for FIRST when making a diagnoses. Hopefully in the future there will be a new generation of drugs based on studies on the human genome, but your goverement (assuming your USA) have banned work on stem cells (I think), which considering your at the forfront of this, is kind of a setback. Sorry I will stop diverging.
Hope it goes well, it may take some time to get the the correct dose, and if your like me you will probabily expereince anxiety to start with but just stick with it, it may just be the med for you.
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