Posted by greywolf on September 26, 2006, at 4:27:53
Many of you have heard this before. I'm BPII, and after trying every AD you can think of, including MAOIs, and running through ineffectual courses of lithium, depakote, and lamictal, my psydoc now says that he doesn't think there's any med targeted to BP that will help me.
He now wants to try going back to treating just the depression, and has started me on Cymbalta 30mg/day for 1 week, then 60mg/day thereafter. He suggests that Cymbalta has fewer side effects than many of the reuptake inhibitors. We'll see. My biggest problem with all of them is fatigue, and I have read that that's common with Cymbalta.
But what I'm really worried about is this: I have a really severe OCD problem that I have been seeing a therapy specialist for. The plan was to treat the OCD less aggressively than the BP, and once we had a handle on the BP, then add in some meds for the OCD. But we're making no progress on the BP, and the OCD is honestly ruining my life. Every waking moment is filled with OCD problems and the stress is just out of sight. I've got Xanax to help, but I can't take it very often because it interferes with my work.
I don't know what to do.
Greywolf
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