Posted by bleauberry on June 6, 2008, at 18:45:46
In reply to NEWBIE--My story (long, but please read!), posted by crazybeautiful on June 5, 2008, at 19:18:12
Linkadge had a lot of good wisdom. Keep that post and read it several times.
I would add that if a doctor were to give you an antipsychotic, geodon is not a prime choice. The queen of the category is zyprexa, which I was on for many years. It was good for smoothing out the anger irritibility stuff, made my prozac work better, gave me good sleep, reduced the unmotivated stuff, and allowed Adrafinil (similar to Modafinil) to energize me without the jumpiness side effects.
If psychiatry were easy, this board would not exist. As you've seen, the diagnosis can vary from one doctor to the next. It is very subjective. It also doesn't accurately predict what medication will work good. Honestly, the only way to find that out is by trial and error. Sometimes clues from our previous trials can help guide future choices. For example, paxil made you emotionless and so did lexapro, so you know that the ssris in general are going to have that emotionless apathy unmotivated thing as part the deal, which will require something else to reverse it, of which my personal opinion based on anecdotal evidence says wellbutrin is not reliable enough to do.
Try lamictal. Try depakote. Heck, try a low dose of a natural salt called lithium. You could be pleasantly surprised how well you respond to one of them. Or stay with a lowered dose of lexapro and try adding modafinil. As Link said, it is all a guessing game at best. Who knows, you might be someone who does very well with just a low dose of Xanax or Klonopin and nothing else, or you may be one of those who does poorly on most ssris but does great with prozac, or duloxetine. But if you stay confined within just one category of drugs, you limit the potential of discovering which of those categories are best for you.
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