Posted by conundrum on May 3, 2010, at 11:55:51
In reply to Re: Just took hydrocodone(percocet)... » conundrum, posted by SLS on May 3, 2010, at 8:05:47
> > I was optimistic at first then I read some negative things in the creativity thread about lamictal and now I'm affraid it will just cause blunting and be a waste of time.
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> I doubt that Lamictal will affect creativity. Not everyone develops cognitive side effects, either. Hopefully, you will respond to a dosage that is no higher than 200mg. That seems to be the dosage that is most often arrived at. Cognitive side effects seem to be dosage dependent.
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> Good luck with it.
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> - Scott
Yeh I hope it helps. I put a lot of pressure on feeling better before my girlfriend comes to visit me this summer. I don't need to be 100% but atleast a little more energetic and motivated. She tells me not to worry about when she comes and just focus on getting better and she is right.Also I feel like I could be more of a benefit than a burden to my grandparents if I was on a small dose of prozac right now since it makes me get things done and be more productive. My grandmom just got out of rehab hospital so I want to be able to help my grandpop taking care of her, but sometimes I just go sit up in my room and waste time and just avoid doing work. In a way its like ADHD, even when I'm trying to do something I get distracted and start doing something else. I guess I'm just fed up with myself and I have no drive to get things done everything just feels like a burden and I get no reward from doing things like say cleaning my room. There is an obvious benefit to cleaning my room, I can walk through it without tripping , but I get no satisfaction or feeling like I did something good when I clean it, then it just gets messy again. I also have to register to go back to school and I see no way I'm gonna get that done right now.
Last fall I tried prozac at a low dose with a little bit of buspar. After some weeks I noticed I was just doing more things around the house and planning for my future. I didn't even attribute it to the drug. I thought it wasn't doing anything so I increased the dose to 5mg every day instead of just 5 mg every other day. Soon after the increase I felt even more blunted than I had before.
The ammount of benefit was noticable though not huge maybe 3 out of 10 in how close to normal I felt, but it was something. Now I wonder if I had stayed at the lower dose if the benefits would have increased? I took my GPs advice and tried something else since there isn't much room for dosage change if 2.5 mg a day is all the gives a benefit. Also I side effects like diarrhrea and headaches which seem to indicate too much serotonin. I believe the benefits of prozac came from its antagonistic effects at the 5 HT2 receptors.
It was interesting because I was able to even enjoy music slightly more like it made me be able to concentrate and remeber it better. I listen to some complex music now and it does nothing and just seems to blend together.
I guess I'm worried lamictal won't help with my types of symptoms and wish I had something with more noradrenergic support that would kick in sooner than 6-8 weeks. Of course I want to try give lamictal a real trial where I can see if this drug on its own can make me feel better, but I don't feel I have that luxury at this time.
I might call her and see what she thinks about adding the prozac. I think I'd be able to discriminate the effects of prozac from the effects of lamictal but I'm not sure.
Post-SSRI syndrome: iatrogenic anhedonia, memory and concentration problems, sexual dysfunction. [NOTE no sadness or anxiety]
Location:USA
Currently taking 25mg Lamictal.
poster:conundrum
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