Anxiety Self Help

Got a success or a horror story that you'd like to share that you think others might need to know about? Is there some sinister side effect or has a med been a wonder drug?

This is the place for all that...

To date I have been on the following as far as I remember:

Depekote (overdosed on that one) , Lithium, then off meds for about 7 years then Lithium again Respirdal (gave me bad headaches), then Seroquel (made me mean as hell), then I was taken off of Seroquel and Lithium (due to swelling in feet really bad) and put on abilify and given Trazadone for sleeping. The Abilify worked for the paranoiabut made me want to chop my foot off so it didn't last long so the doc places me on my current cocktail which consist of the follwoing with dosages omited:

Topomax (mood stablizer) Lamictal (mood stablizer) Zyprexa (anti-psychotic mood stablizer) Propranolol (anxiety) Camprall (drinking)

The last one I am taking as a direct advers affect of being removed from the Abilify. So any Dual Diagnosis types out there and on this med be warned that there is the possibilty of a setback and there may not have anything you can do about it. I was fortunate enough to be able to discuss this with my doc and that's why i am on the med.

I have a success story....

Up until a little over a year ago, I was horribly depressed.. incredibly suicidal. I had been for a very long time & it just kept getting worse, but my social anxiety/phobia (which I've had for most of my life), kept me from getting any help until it was almost too late. Things got so bad, though, that, despite my fear, I went to the local mental health clinic.

Well, soon after, on Sep. 12, 2007, I was put on Lamictal, a very low dose at first (25mg)-- & it completely saved my life. On Sep. 14, I almost killed myself, but luckily, was somehow able to keep myself from doing it. By September 19, it was as if I were living in a completely different world. For the first time in months, years even, I knew I wasn't going to kill myself. I didn't feel like I had to, anymore. Lamictal is the only reason I'm here today.

I started getting manic around Feb. of last year. My doctor put me on Depakote ER, but it made me deathly ill... For two weeks, I could do nothing but lie in bed with horrendous stomach pain, while nauseous. He (my doctor) took me off of that. He then put me on Lithium in April & that's worked great.

Right now, I'm on 200mg's of Lamictal, 1200mg's of Lithium & just a couple weeks ago, I was put on clonazepam (name brand Klonopin) for my anxiety. I'm lucky to have had all the success I've had with meds. But I'm even luckier to have such a great doctor.