Posted by jimmygold70 on April 16, 2001, at 5:44:16
In reply to Hi Jimmy, posted by judy1 on April 13, 2001, at 18:59:37
Hi Judy !
> Do you know what your blood levels are, that's > a pretty low dose of depakote. Normally the
> therapeutic range is 50-100u and to achieve
> that I had to take about 1000mgs/day.Well, I'm only in the beginning of therapy, my doc gets the dose up slowly. I should have blood monitoring the day after tommorow.
> Why risperdal? Are you having psychotic
> symptoms now? Klonopin is a great med for
> anxiety and some pdocs consider it a second
> line mood stabilizer. I take risperdal only
> when experiencing psychotic symptoms. People
> with bipolar disorder are more prone to EPS
> then those with other disorders. How are you
> feeling?- judyKlonopin was very good for me, but it "erases" my memory, so I can't function as a student. I take Risperdal for intrusive thoughts... It has to be combined with an AD. My PDoc took me off the AD since my manic episde, but he'll probably put me on Effexor or Celexa soon.
I'm feeling bad. I do function, but the intrusive thoughts are quite bad now, I hae extremely low self esteem since my last manic episode... I used to pick up women easily on my hypomanic episoded (esp. when combined with alochol :-)
Now, things are harder...Jimmy
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