Posted by dbc on May 20, 2008, at 13:26:39
In reply to Scott:, posted by qbsbrown on May 20, 2008, at 11:58:12
I use simple valium for the more intense and activating periods of titration. I had some weird psychotic features (paranoia, visual disturbances, etc) somewhere between 100mg - 200mg and my doctor was like AH HAH IT IS BIPOLAR AFTER ALL and started scripting me seroquel which did nothing except make me sleep.
She starts talking about geodon and all sorts of nonsense to stop the hypomania/psychotic features and i flat out told her to give me a higher dose of valium before going to extreme measures. Of course all the negative symptoms go away and she's left annoyed that whatever was going on didnt fit her DX and the most obvious choice worked. It wasnt a large dose for any benzo 10mg - 20mg daily , which is around 1/2mg of xanax.
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