Psycho-Babble Medication Thread 1113858

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mood stablizers

Posted by rjlockhart37 on February 23, 2021, at 22:02:14

i've been on 3, but the main one is lamictal, after sometime we moved to 200, 300, then 400 after too many mood swings and so i take 2 200mg tero tablets each morning. I was on lithium in the psych, for about a week and half, i didnt like lithium but i did notice some stillness in moods. Mood stablizer best for depression is lamictal, then lithium is more for mania, and depression. But, this is the thing - i'm not bipolar, and i hate to say that outloud but i don't have bipolar episodes, but i'm on zyprexa lamictal, and nuerotin - and basically i just stayed with it

does anyone know if mood stablizer can be used for depression alone?

 

Re: mood stablizers

Posted by undopaminergic on February 24, 2021, at 2:02:27

In reply to mood stablizers, posted by rjlockhart37 on February 23, 2021, at 22:02:14

>
> does anyone know if mood stablizer can be used for depression alone?

Yes, for a lot of psychiatrists that is the first option for bipolar disorder.

-undopaminergic

 

Re: mood stablizers

Posted by rjlockhart37 on February 24, 2021, at 22:32:18

In reply to Re: mood stablizers, posted by undopaminergic on February 24, 2021, at 2:02:27

no no no, what i ment was use of depression, not bipolar....more like unipolar, i think read something here link said that there not effective in treating depression alone (lithium, lamotragine, olanzpine, etc) lamictal helps prozac, but i also notice in mornings when i take 400 of lam. it dulls me out a little bit, but the moods are stable

i think having an antidepressant with lithium or lamictal is the choice for bipolar depression (or just unipolar depression)

 

Re: mood stablizers

Posted by rjlockhart37 on February 27, 2021, at 0:45:22

In reply to Re: mood stablizers, posted by rjlockhart37 on February 24, 2021, at 22:32:18

link didnt you say onetime stablizers are not effective for unipolar depression

 

Re: mood stablizers

Posted by linkadge on February 27, 2021, at 14:35:02

In reply to Re: mood stablizers, posted by undopaminergic on February 24, 2021, at 2:02:27

Some forms of bipolar depression respond to mood stabilizers. Statistically speaking though bipolar patients spend much more time in bipolar depression and this doesn't always respond to mood stabilizers.

Linkadge

 

Re: mood stablizers

Posted by rjlockhart37 on February 28, 2021, at 19:37:14

In reply to Re: mood stablizers, posted by linkadge on February 27, 2021, at 14:35:02

seemed you said a while back, that in unipolar depression (always depressed) that mood stablizers would not work, or have little effect. Lamictal seems to be only mood stablizr that helps depression, lithium also but it's more for mania

if you took lithium for just depression only (not manic) it would have little effect

 

Re: mood stablizers

Posted by rjlockhart37 on February 28, 2021, at 19:39:52

In reply to Re: mood stablizers, posted by rjlockhart37 on February 28, 2021, at 19:37:14

lithium seems to increase serotonin, i read mechanism of action. May accout to it's antidepressant properties (but in unipolar) it would have little effect without an antidepressant

 

Re: mood stablizers

Posted by rjlockhart37 on March 3, 2021, at 15:25:29

In reply to Re: mood stablizers, posted by rjlockhart37 on February 28, 2021, at 19:39:52

i've been on lamictal since 2012, it's a good medication but only thing, for a while i used to take 400mg (2 tablets) in morning and it seemed to dull me out. It does have an antidepressant effect, but it doenst seem to help mania, it more for depression in keeping at baseline. I take prozac 80mg, lamictal 400mg in moring and those are my meds. Lamotragine is good medication, even though i've been on lithium. Lamictal seems to pull you out of depression, like rexulti.

 

Re: mood stablizers

Posted by SLS on March 6, 2021, at 11:52:30

In reply to Re: mood stablizers, posted by undopaminergic on February 24, 2021, at 2:02:27

> >
> > does anyone know if mood stablizer can be used for depression alone?
>
> Yes, for a lot of psychiatrists that is the first option for bipolar disorder.
>
> -undopaminergic
>

Maybe Lamictal (lamotrigine). My guess is that it increases dopamine activity in the nucleus accumbens via disinhibition facilitated by a reduction of glutamate release in the thalamus. There may be other structures involved as well.

I would like to mention that an apparently unipolar depression can still have a bipolar diathesis. This alone warrants a trial of a mood stabilizer when antidepressants alone do not have much, if any, appreciable effect.

Oxcarbazepine, tiagabine, and lamotrigine would my picks.


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