Posted by Tabitha on March 22, 2016, at 18:24:28
In reply to Re: I restarted prazosin - I am feeling much better. » Tabitha, posted by SLS on March 22, 2016, at 13:59:19
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> I have experienced psychotic manic episodes in association with antidepressant medication. I never experienced a spontaneous mania.
Yikes, "psychotic manic" sounds truly awful. I was hypomanic on SSRIs, but didn't recognize what it was. I don't recall ever being that high without SSRIs. My journals from that period are kind of scary, all big and loopy writing and rambling on about god and art and stuff. I'm amazed I didn't do even more damage to my personal & professional life.
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> Current medication regime:
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> Parnate 80 mg/day
> Desipramine 300 mg/day
> Lamictal 300 mg/day
> Lithium 300 mg/day
> Abilify 10 mg/day
> Prazosin 6 mg/day *
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> Feel free to ask more questions.
>OK, I do have some more questions. You're on 300mg lithium, 300mg lamictal. I'm on 600mg lithium, 150mg lamictal. I'm having some unwanted water retention from the lithium, so I was wondering if it would make sense to reduce lithium and increase lamictal (working with my pdoc of course). Did you tweak your dosages of those two? What happened with side effects, efficacy, and dosage? I was not sure if 300mg lithium is even enough to have lasting effects. It's hard to find much information on low dose lithium.
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