Posted by AWorriedMom on May 10, 2003, at 17:14:42
My16 yr old daughter was dx about 3 years ago with Bipolar I disorder. She doesn't seem to maintain stability on her present meds. She seems always to be depressed and now is also showing symptons of mania returning. Her med history is:
13yrs- Tegretol 400 am / 400 pm; buspar 2x day
seemed ok as far as mania, missed lots of school with "tummy-aches" and various other complaints.
14yrs- Doc switched off tegretol to topomax bc of weight issues. That is when she had a bumpy, manic ride. Later, stopped topomax and back on tegretol. This time tegretol had no effect. She was at the max in the range, but full blown mania with delusional, psychotic like thoughts as well.
Currently-lithium 600am/600pm; depakote 1000am / 1000pm; zyprexa 20mg at bed; 15mg.valium 3xday; 45mg restoril at night. That is current. She was on prozac for a while bc of depression. Stopped and put on lexapro. Emergency appt. doc took off the lexapro and said wait for her reg. doc to return from vacation.
Any words of wisdom or advice so that I can talk to her doc and ask some good questions?
poster:AWorriedMom
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