Posted by Tabitha on July 23, 2016, at 10:01:31
In reply to Re: Bad couple of days » Tabitha, posted by Horse on July 22, 2016, at 22:18:05
Thanks, people. I have an idea of what happened. I'd started a diet and ate really low calories for a few days, lower than normal dieting for me. I think that maybe triggered hypomania, followed by the inevitable crash. I say this because I've had similar reaction to having my sleep disrupted for too long, or from getting too much novel stimulation from travel. I just never had it happen from sudden diet changes before.
I feel more stable now and I see my pdoc next week.
To answer questions about why I discontinued it, I started on lamictal, relapsed, added AD, relapsed, added lithium, then was doing well (so on all three meds at that point). The lithium helped so much I thought I might not need both of the others anymore. Pdoc recommended keeping lamictal and trying tapering the AD. He also increased lamictal slightly before starting. I went a month for each change (increase lamictal, AD down to 1/2, AD down to 0).
The underlying idea was that I like to take as few meds as possible (I'm on more stuff than just psych meds), I like to avoid expensive ones if I can (this one was $50/month compared to all my others $5/month or $30), and I wasn't sure the AD was still helping since I'd relapsed while on it anyway. Does that make sense?
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