Posted by deniseuk190466 on January 10, 2008, at 15:07:34
In reply to Re: SLS Stuff. » deniseuk190466, posted by SLS on January 9, 2008, at 19:25:40
Scott,
Thanks for getting back to me. Please don't disappear from this site for good. Although I've sort of given up on God I used to pray for you (and others every night). Maybe, he/she/it was listening after all :-).
Don't want to use you as some sort of sounding board but as you yourself suffer from Bipolar and have an awful lot of experience with medications thought you might be able to suggest something.
Anyway, my US pen pal has tried the following, in his words below, he has also told me that Nardil is the only drug which gave him substantial relief but had unbearable side affects, that Wellbutrin gave him a lot of energy but then stopped doing anything, Zyprexa didn't do much and just made him put a lot of weight on (typical, unless you smoke like me). He is now on Selegeline which helps his mood a bit Seroquel which helps him sleep but which he thinks dampens his mood and makes him tired and he has been abilify but for some reason came off that. He has also had ECT which didn't help.
He has good days and bad (in bed all day) days and he is still unable to work. Although he does seem to like to go out and socialise now and again.
"Prozac gives me unmanagable anxiety attacks. Lithium has side-effects I forget, and didn't seem to do anything. Nardil, I probably mentioned. Lamictal, I forget - don't think it did anything. Effexor was a side-effect nightmare, and I wish they banned it outright. Zoloft, they didn't bother with, as it's not powerful, and Paxil was a waste of my time.Sadly, my drug list is about 3.5 times the size of yours. I've been on 32 meds, plus or minus a few. Some were to deal with side effects. The majority were AD's and some anti-psycotics type meds".
Thanks....Denise
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