Posted by phidippus on November 1, 2012, at 15:35:29
In reply to Re: anyone have luck adding Abilify to AD?, posted by porkpiehat on November 1, 2012, at 15:08:14
>Depression/Anxiety/Social Anxiety...BPII...PTSD...obsessiveness
With so much anxiety, an AD without all the sexual side effects and numbing is going to be your best friend.
I would reccommend you look at Mirtazapine or Viibryd, as they carry the least risk for the kinds of side effects you want to avoid.
You only need one AD at a higher dose to address your anxiety issues. Taking Celexa and Zoloft together at such low doses is only going to increase your risk for side effects and will ultimately be subtherapeutic.
>Lamictal helped with some of the depression and manic behavior, but had its own side effects like concentration, headaches, trouble sleeping etc.
Have you tried any other mood stabilizers?
>We switched the SSRI to Zoloft to see if it would help with focus, obsessiveness (over meds ironically) and sexual SE's.
I see it helping with obsessiveness, but not focus or sexual side effects.
>We dropped down to 12.5 zoloft...I lost any notion of "self possession" and couldn't ask for change at the market without feeling shame and combative. Didn't feel I deserved anything. I felt "cowed" and obsessively nervous
These are all anxiety symptoms and probably increased because you dropped the Zoloft.
>5mgs of celexa these symptoms went away largely. However I'm just kind of trudging along without much sex drive or inspiration.
I think you're having troubles with inspiration goes you don't feel good overall.
>trying a small amount of AP to a) combat my "hypervigilence" over med
I don't think adding an AP will help you with your hypervigilance. Again I think you need to be one high dose AD.
>I will say today I've felt short-tempered and pervasively sad.
Again, the right AD is going to help you more with these symptoms than an AP.
>Today I feel worse than before taking any Abilify
um-hmmm
>Ultimately I'd like to take two months off from work and wean off EVERYTHING.
If you'r e bipolar that would be a bad idea.
Eric
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