Mental Health Drugs
When all of this started I went to my family physician who prescribed Celexa and referred me to a mental health doctor. The mental health doctor increased the Celexa and that worked for a small time period then the decision was to move to a stronger med so I switched over to Paxil. Paxil and my brain do not get along it turns out so I ended up in a nasty place which led to my first hospitalization. I was taken off of Paxil and moved to Effexor which was alright for the depression but was not doing nothing for the racing thoughts and psychotic behavior so they added Zyprexa to the mix and then later on Lithium to balance me out. Now the new problem was that Effexor was not doing enough plus all of the side effects of the other meds Wellbutrin was added to the mix. So I left the hospital on a drug cocktail that included Effexor, Wellbutrin, Lithium, Zyprexa and Temazapam (I could be wrong on this one all I know is it was one of a sleeping pill type).
This combination worked for quite some time but about six months in the weight gain from Zyprexa was getting to a dangerous level so I stopped taking it. For awhile i was alright but the racing thoughts were back so a variety of different antipsychotics were tried until eventually I just crashed and ended up back on the psch ward. The plan was to cleanse out my system and start a different type of antidepressant. So they stopped all of my meds except for the sleeping med in under a week. Normally it takes months to stop Effexor the proper way but I guess that I was under 24/7 monitoring it was alright. So I was on nothing but the sleeping pill for a couple of weeks except for the odd anti psychotic to help in difficult moments. I moved on to Nardil which is an MAOI antidepressant and through a bunch of experimentation Seroquel was found and it started to work.
Seroquel started as 25mg when needed but pretty soon it was given to me three times a day on a schedule. I left the hospital and over the next four months or so Seroquel was increased to 100mg three times daily and a extra 50mg when needed. I had to go for dental work and Nardil can not be combined with a number of meds including some used in dentistry so I stopped taking it. I was off antidepressants completely until I asked to be started on Effexor and it was slowly increased form 37.5 to 75 to 112.5 to the dose I am on now which is 150mg. Problem now is my body seems to have adjusted to it as it is not working very well. So chances are another med is going to be added to the mix. Anyway that is my drug history for the most part.
* Update – Seroquel is now at 100mg four times per day and 60mg of Cymbalta has been added .
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Ah yes, the medication merry-go-round. I also build up a tolerance and have to change meds. Usually I’d wait til I was so sick, I’d be on a locked unit for months at a time.
The past couple of years, I ‘fess up sooner, which has kept me from being admitted.
We just added Mirapex, as the Dopamine properties in the Ritalin helped me out of my last crash. SSDI pays for my massive medical mix, but not the Mirapex:
It’s for “Restless Leg Syndrome”, so clearly I should fork out the $200 a month for it. (!)
I’m about to go and click on one of your ads. I liked your post about the making of money, but I wasn’t able to comment….some computer glitch.
The Money Making Post was pretty much meant for my subscribers only and it was deleted shortly after I wrote it. I am fortunate when I hit a med that my disability plan does not cover the doctor makes sure that the hospital pharmacy provides me with samples such as the case with Cymbalta at the moment. take care