Posted by polarbear206 on September 5, 2011, at 13:48:58
In reply to Add an antidepressant? or wait?, posted by Christ_empowered on September 5, 2011, at 11:13:45
> I take 30mgs Abilify and 50mgs Lamictal, with a target dose of 200 for the lamictal. The plan is to get me up to 200 lamictal and decrease the Abilify to 15.
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> Overall, I'm starting to feel better. The "voices"-more like thoughts I can hear and that distract and bother me-have become less frequent and less intense. I have more energy. My sleep patterns seem to have normalized after a period of sleeping entirely too much, too often.
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> The thing is, I'm really, really tired of hearing these voices and having these thoughts. I hate to say I want a magic pill to take it all away, but I do sometimes think a low-dose SSRI might be beneficial. I was thinking low-dose Prozac, since I'm prone to a bit of lethargy. Also, with the Prozac on board I could further decrease the Abilify to 7.5 mgs b/c of its interaction with Abilify.
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> But I don't know. I don't want to be overmedicated or tranquilized into oblivion. I just want to be a little more stable and less tortured.
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I don't think it would be a very wise decision to introduce an AD while your titrating with the Lamictal. You see improvements, so be patient.
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