Posted by linkadge on August 1, 2007, at 19:21:38
In reply to Re: Why do all anti-depressants make me anxious)), posted by JohnSky on August 1, 2007, at 17:11:31
>My brother is on a small dose of Paxil that he >has been on for a few years and is slowly >getting off of it. Once he started Lithium 6 >months ago he noticed the drugs "battled each >other".
Yeah, I have noticed that. I was on celexa and lithium. It seemed that the combination made me more bipolar than either alone! I acutally had psychedellic hallucinations on the combination. Ie cars faces looking real. Every object taking on a personality, cars, phones, trees, everything. I felt the emotions of objects such as lampshades and sat there trying to describe the emotions. I had time speeding up and slowing down too.
lithium can somtimes greatly enhance the serotonergic effects of the SSRI's. Somtimes it can enhance the neurotoxicity of lithium.
I personally felt that the combination of SSRI's and lithium did some really strange things. Of all the drug combinations I've taken, I feel that I am still altered as a result of those ones.
They certainly can fight with eachother. I found that there were side effects I got from the combination that neither drug gave me alone.
Lithium kindof wants to be the master. It does't really like other drugs telling it what to do.
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