Posted by blueberry on September 8, 2006, at 15:56:41
Hi Phillipa and everyone. You asked how I was doing in another post and I thought I would answer it here. You can kind of tell when someone is doing poorly when they don't post very often. That is sadly the case with me.
My 10mg prozac 2.5mg zyprexa are not doing much, maybe even making me worse than I was. Tried higher doses which made me much much worse. The doc almost called an ambulance to take me from his office to the hospital. It is a good hospital and would not be a bad thing. At the moment I'm hesitating. My first trip there was good and I am actually as bad right now as I was before the first visit.
Tried ritalin. First dose was nice. As it wore off depression was worse. Second dose didn't do nearly as much as the first, and then depression was real bad 3 hours later, and then the third dose did nothing at all and I had viscious depression as it wore off. Ritalin was a scary ride for me. Forget that.
I discovered I like ativan/lorazepam though. I liked xanax, but the peaks and valleys were aweful. Ativan is much smoother and seems more calming physically and mentally. Klonopin was a suicide inducing med for me. For the time being I survive on low dose ativan until I see the doc on Monday or I hit the hospital, which ever comes first.
Doc has his eye on three possibilities for me...wellbutrin; lithium; ECT. He favors ECT. I favor wellbutrin and/or lithium. We'll see how it all plays out real soon.
Hope you are feeling fairly well. Wishing you a good day and evening.
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