Posted by Lou Pilder on November 28, 2012, at 15:31:09
In reply to Re: I am loosing it » hansi555, posted by SLS on November 28, 2012, at 14:08:09
> > > Are you free-lancing with your meds...adjusting dosages on your own. Did you double your Abilify dose for 3 days? Curious.
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> > My pdoc initially suggested 5 mg and I looked it up and decided to start on 2,5 mg which I stayed at for 7-8 weeks, then the swings between bad and normal returned and I went to 5 mg for a few days before I discontinued it completely.
> > Please remember that I during the last 5 years never got to a satisfying level of normal/good, this is why we tried Abilify and before that Lamictal.
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> I hope you weren't required to discontinue the Abilify in order to take Lamictal. Taking the two drugs together makes a good treatment for some people, and it makes little sense not to combine them as soon as either proves inadequate.
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> - Scott
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> Friends,
It is written here,
[...Taking the two drugs together (Lamictal and Abilify) makes a good treatment for some people, and it makes little sense not to combine them as soon as either proves inadaquate...].
Be advised, that the combination of the two drugs could kill you. They are both CNS depressants and when combined the effects are magnified and the heart or breathing could stop.
Now the psychiatrist/doctor that would prescribe such a combination of drugs (redacted by respondent). You see, if there are criteria that are used to determine who the{some} people are that the combination will be a {good} treatment, I do not know them and I could not think that anyone could classify a person as to being in a set of people that the combination will be a good treatment for. And this is all because the Abilfy can cause death, and your Lamictal don't (redacted by respondent).
You see, how could there be people that would not have the same chances to die from taking a combination of CNS depressants? What special brains could they have and how could the prescriber determine that? If it can not be determined ahead of time, then by what authority could the doctor prescribe the drugs? Take a chance? What are the chances?
http://www.ehealthme.com/ds/abilify/death
http://www.ehealthme.com/ds/lamictal/death Look at these two results of death from the drugs taken by themselves. You see, when they are taken together, the chances of death are more than if they are taken individually.
Now what kind of sense does it make for a psychiatrist/doctor to give these two drugs together? Will the person kill themselves if they do not take the drugs? My friends, there is now a warning from the FDA that a lot of psycjhotropic drugs {increase} the risk of suicide. And Mr. Hsiung allows this promotion of these two drugs to be taken together here so could it be thought as supportive because support takes precednce? If you are a parent trying to deciede as to drug your child in collaboration with a psychiatrist/doctor, be advised that I am prevented by prohibitions to me from Mr Hsiung from telling you here what IMHO could save your child's life or prevent a life-ruining condition/addiction. And more than that, if you go to the admin board, you would see the allowing of defamation posted to me over and over including scapegoating.
Before you drug your child, please get all the facts, facts that coud mark the difference between your child being a live person or a corpse.
Lou
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