Posted by lymom3 on August 24, 2006, at 4:54:21
In reply to Re: treatment resistant depression ...what works?, posted by finelinebob on August 23, 2006, at 23:31:57
I'm going to throw something out there for consideration. I have/had been told for 20 years that I had trd. I was on a total of 14 anti depressants...including Emsam. Nothing worked. Sometimes I felt marginally better than others. Some meds were disasters (Cymbalta, Wellbutrin were the worst). Then I got this new pdoc (who happens to be my sons pdoc...former head of psychiatry for a major teaching university in Missouri where I live). He looked at me and asked me if any of those meds ever actually made me feel better because in the time that he had been treating me he sure didn't see that I was feeling any better. I even tried a period with no meds...that certainly proved to me that SOMETHING was not right with me. Now I am being dx'd as BP II and treated with BP meds...Topamax and Lamictal. Can't take a high dose of Lamictal because of se's so I'm taking Topamax with it. An amazing thing has happened since I increased my Topamax dosage....I feel calm. I don't cry, I don't rage. I can joke with people. My kids don't make me slam doors or yell at them anymore. I'm not saying that is your answer but if trd is your dx right now and one combo that was working included Lamictal...consider at least BP drugs or BP dx....
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