Posted by bleauberry on April 13, 2012, at 6:57:33
In reply to depressed, don't know what to do., posted by phidippus on April 11, 2012, at 20:18:55
I'm sorry I'm not sure I can offer any possible suggestions of what exactly to do but I can offer a perspective. That is, if you are depressed like this on these meds, then that doesn't say anything positive about those meds, does it. It doesn't. Any of those meds can help depression and can worsen depression....flip a coin. You might need to think hard about which ones are really helping you a lot, if any, and start your battle plan to replace the others or drop them completely. The absolute worst mistake you could make at this time, my opinion, would be to add another drug on top of these failed ones. So many people do that and dig a deeper hole.
Bipolar symptoms are often nothing more than accumulated toxicity, inflammation flare-ups, occult infections, sensitivity to certain foods. I mean, these are all serious issues and take a longterm purposeful plan to cover those bases. All of them have bipolar as predominant outwardly visible symptoms. So if you do not become an expert on these areas in the same fashion you become an expert on your meds or bipolar, healing is going to be much harder. imo
For depression specifically, in your case, I would be looking at either savella or nortriptyline/zoloft combo. I don't really see anything meaningful in your cocktail to address serious depression.
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