Posted by blueboy on August 13, 2008, at 11:51:32
Went to see my pdoc today. I've been at 200/mg per day of Lamictal. He wanted to stop upping the dosage -- leaving me at 200mg/day -- and add Abilify.
I talked him into letting me try to up the Lamictal first, to 225 and 250, then coming back. I'm feeling not much different from the Lamictal, but I'm not having any side effects except a very slight possible cognitive problem and some sleep issues in the last few days.
I've just been on 200/day for a week now, and I'm going through some odd sleep stuff. As my pdoc pointed out, this could just be a cycle in my Bipolar II, or it could be the drug having some effect. I just wanted to stay at a higher dosage for a while to get a better idea of what the Lamictal is doing.
His first thought was to add Seroquel, but he looked back through my chart and found that I had tried it before (without a mood stabilizer) and it had had no effect except to make me very drowsy.
He is really resistant to the idea of trying Mirapex with the Lamictal, even though I showed him a study indicating a lot of success with it. Anyone know anything about this.tter handle on what it was doing, and he agreed.
I don't know anything about Abilify.
Anyone have any comments on any of this?
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