Posted by ronaldo on February 4, 2007, at 8:00:32
In reply to Forgot to mention....for above post., posted by blueberry1 on February 4, 2007, at 6:47:57
Hi blueberry,
Nice to see you back. Sorry ill health has kept you away.
You talk about moving back to tried and trusted combos. The trouble is they were combos - 3 or 4 different medicines taken at the same time. Which was the one that was pulling the most weight and which ones were shirkers or are we to go with the bland assumption that all components were working equally well. Not likely... My suggestion to you is not to muddy the waters too much by taking too many different medications in combination.
You have identified Zyprexa as the best common denominator. OK try Zyprexa monotherapy and see what happens. Do you want to go back on the full five milligrams or do you want to try a more modest 2.5 mg? I know you have just recently been through a long and arduous and at times painful withdrawal from Zyprexa. Never mind, if that is what works for you that is what you should take.
Now you ask what else should you take with it? Is it possible to say nothing? Once you start juggling with 3 or 4 or more different medications it is very easy to lose sight of which medication is doing what. With your symptoms is it possible to stick with monotherapy? Can you at least give monotherapy a trial run? Perhaps you know your meds so well and also your reaction to them that you can mix and match quite skilfully. I reckon your brain must be quite hungry now for a slice of Zyprexa so imho maybe that is the one to start with.
Zyprexa should give you a really good buzz after being off it for so long. Maybe you should not confuse the issue by adding other meds. You may be surprised how much Zyprexa can do for you. At least give it a chance to show you what you've been missing. After say a few days to a week on the Zyprexa maybe you can try mixing other stuff in. But I would give the Zyprexa a clear run first just to set the base line.
ronaldo
> Best combo of all:
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> 1. 20mg prozac + 5mg zyprexa + 600mg st johns wort. The morning butterflies and dread nearly gone. Motivated. Interested. But got distressing antipsychotic things such as twitches, head jerking, stuff like that. Actually 10mg prozac + 5mg zyprexa + 1.5mg xanax was pretty good too, but was only on it a week.
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> 2. 20mg prozac + 5mg zyprexa + 300mg adrafinil. Pretty good years on this combo. The problem is that it was before the days of the morning butterflies and dread, so no idea how it would work today.
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> No matter what I tried in the last 3 years, if 5mg zyprexa was not in the mix, it was bad news. All current probs seemed to slowly begin when zyprexa was reduced from 5mg to 2.5mg. I loathe zyprexa. Hate it. But I can't argue with results. It really did make other meds work.
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> The thing that scares me about returning to a previous combo is that we all know how previous meds can fail a second time around, be completely different, or have tons of side effects that were never there before. Seems like a 50/50 gamble.
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> Even worse though is considering trying other things. Venturing into new drugs has been severe punishment for me. I do not feel I have the endurance or the courage to keep trying and failing things, when I look back and see what did work fairly well.
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> Just wish I had a better handle on the diagnosis.
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