Posted by fuchsia on June 10, 2006, at 1:34:10
Could a mood stabliser allow you to tolerate an antidepressant you couldn't tolerate before?
Before I tried mood stabilisers I went through a lot of antidepressants and eventually I became sensitized to them in some way. All of the last lot I tried gave me akathisia and or other neurological side effects; at smaller and smaller doses.
Now I'm on Lamictal and while the stabilising effect is good the antidepressant effect is petering out and I'm afraid to try adding an antidepressant since they seem to have made me neurologically fragile. I know I'm lumping them all in together here but just about all of them so far have been pretty neurologically bad for me.
I do wonder if anyone on a mood stabiliser found they could tolerate any antidepressants they couldn't tolerate without the mood stabiliser?
Fuchsia
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