Posted by qbsbrown on April 3, 2010, at 19:00:38
In reply to Re: Trileptal, why do you do this to me?, posted by ed_uk2010 on April 3, 2010, at 18:40:48
> Brian,
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> What is your experience of antipsychotics such as Zyprexa?
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> In my opinion, you should keep taking Trileptal and Lyrica (up to 600mg/day) until you've tapered off diazepam, which could obviously take a while.
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> At the moment, you're having so many problems with your meds that it's impossible to know what's causing what. Once you're off diazepam, you could taper off Lyrica and Trileptal too, in order to establish a baseline. You can then decide with your doctors help whether or not you need to go back on medication (although hopefully not benzos, since they seem to be very problematic for you).Ed, today is first day to 3 doses of trileptal, 300 3x. Depression a little more pronounced, but physiical sickness still pretty bad, naseaua/headache. As i spent last night, and the day today with a friend, i felt much better, and thought much less about my mental health as i do when i am home with parents, as i have so many horrible memories at their home from medications etc, and how they are.
In the past, i used to even take up to 30mgs of zyprexa, would pop it like candy, at times didn't mind it, seemed to make me sane, although i was 40lbs overweight. i would even need that much to slow me down to drive enough, although it may even induce depression. I have serious adverse effects to all drugs obviously.
I tried some antipsychotics before ECT, zyprexa, geodon, and even clozaril, all made everything i was experiencing the same, only with a bigger hint of depression to it.
I have not tried zyprexa post ECT.
I still think that the trileptal and lyrica can help me get off the diazepam quicker, even though i have pretty adverse effects to trileptal, and makes me sick, but i seem to tolerate lyrica just fine, one of the few if only drugs i've never had bad reactions to, and don't mind. No ups or downs, some relaxation etc.
Thanks Ed in believing that benzos are the drug of problem, and causing me great illness, which i probably agree.
If I decide to go to the mountains of california to work on on a farm for a while, and taper, and get away from people, i believe that i would have to drop the trileptal, as it makes me too physically ill to do physical work. I would have to ride lyrica and diazepam solo.
a) do you think that trileptal is even a good idea for me now? do you believe i should continue it? i THINK it can help me taper quicker, but there are my obvious adverse effects, and seeming a bad physical reaction to it.
b) today i am at 300mgs of lyrica, how quickly do i increase it to 600mgs? my dr agreed to put me at 600, but obviously offered me no direction.
kind regards,
Brian
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