Posted by inanimate peanut on July 18, 2010, at 14:15:55
In reply to Re: You hangin in there peanut?, posted by ed_uk2010 on July 18, 2010, at 13:53:40
I can't explain it, and maybe it is psychological, but every time I have tried to go back on a drug that I've quit, it won't work. TRUST ME, I wish this was not the case, but it always has been. Drugs that I've left and gone back to with no effect include effexor, lithium, wellbutrin, seroquel xr, and lexapro. There are many things we can't explain about the brain, and this is one of them about mine. You are completely right that it is keeping me on perphenazine and also lamictal (which I don't think is helping but am scared to go off just in case it is doing something and I stop and then can't go back on it). That's why I'm on so many meds, because you can add them but I won't allow them to be taken away because then they can't be added back. I would give anything to have either Wellbutrin or lithium work again, but neither does. Lunesta seems to be an exception to this rule, and I'm not sure why that would be. Also, PRNs like ativan work and I don't take them daily, so I don't know how to explain that either.
In other words, I think your logic is impeccable, but I'm the way I am now because of going off meds and having them not work when I went back on them. When I was on lithium, I had a great job, a townhome, a fiance, a normal life like I wasn't even bipolar at all and I've lost it all by going off lithium and not being able to go back on it or find anything that works like it. Every med I go off that won't work that we can't replace, I just get a little worse until I'm how I am now, which is nothing. So I've been burned enough that I'll stick with my theory.
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