Posted by blueberry1 on December 22, 2006, at 18:10:04 [reposted on December 23, 2006, at 13:24:45 | original URL]
In reply to St John's wort and bioplar -recipe for disaster?, posted by survivin bpd on December 22, 2006, at 17:54:34
Any antidepressant, whether it be st johns wort or anything else, can induce a manic reaction in someone bipolar. When I tried sjw along with prozac and zyprexa, I swear I felt awesome for about a month. Then all of a sudden one day I crashed into the depths for no reason at all. And it was pooped out after that, with some half decent days and some real bad days alternating, but the goodness was gone. As I think back on it, I can't decide if it was sjw that actually worked and then pooped out, if it was serotonin sydrome, if it somehow messed with zyprexa, or whether it sparked some cycling. I also felt especially good when I was weaning off it. That was weird.
I can't find it now, but there was a report that sjw increased blood levels of zyprexa by 300% in a patient. Though sjw usually decreases blood levels of many meds, it increased blood levels of zyprexa dramatically. Was that what went wrong with me?
Popular theory says that if you are bipolar the important thing is to have mood stabilizers in place before adding an antidepressant. Sigh. But hey, if you start sjw just keep a daily log of your emotions each day so you can see how and if things are changing.
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