Discussion Psychiatric medication

[waiting93]

What psychiatric medication is everyone on ? And has it helped your suicidal ideation, made it worse, or not made a difference?

 

[delusionalgirl]

I was on Prozac, Wellbutrin, and rameron. I've tried others oh and addy. Wellbutrin damn near had me ctb when taken with addy on docs orders. Then again back in December when I took one pill and then an hour later due to lack of sleep and stress. I started hallucinating someone telling me what to do.

 

[Bunnymmm]

Duloxelitine baby, makes me feel high.

 

[LittleJem]

bupropion and escitalopram. Has helped a lot with SI. About a week or two so far..

 

[suicidaleeyore]

Lithium - mood stabiliser for suicidal thoughts
Paroxetine - anxiety and depression
Quetiapine - sleep

They all work though it's taken a long time to find what works especially a good combo

 

[LittleJem]

bupropion and escitalopram. Has helped a lot with SI. About a week or two so far..

I mean I've been on them fpr eight or ten weeks or something. they helped grom
the beginning but more now

 

[rats]

Fluoxetine - didn't do shit, except take my appetite
Sertraline - I'm on week 5-6ish, and it hasn't done anything for me

 

[AnxietyHangover]

I take quite a bit of stuff currently, the running joke I have is that I have to take my daily spoonful, here is my treatment scheme:

Morning: Escitalopram (Lexapro) 10mg
Afternoon: 250mg sodium valproate for bipolar
Evening: 150mg Venlafaxine (Effexor), 500mg sodium valproate, 10mg Aripiprazole (Abilify).

I have to take this daily, and yeah, I know what you will ask me, how the fuck am I not getting serotonin syndrome for using both a SSRI and a SNRI, well I'm a fairly large person and these are not maximum dosages so maybe that's the reason.
The other question would be, does it work? Well I don't know the answer honestly, I still have daily ideations, the bipolar issues are 80% under control, some days are better then others surely. This is my third scheme overall with my third doctor, at least this one won't send me to the ward, I hope

 

[illAF]

I've tried so much antidepressants and neuroleptiques in twelve years. And I've always relapsed.
Currently, I have 3 antidepressants ( + benzos) and I'm in one of the worst depression of my life. Would I be feeling worst without having them ? Don't know, maybe. But nothing seems to work (in the long term) on me.

 

[Walilamdzii]

Lithium 1000mg
Quetiapine 100mg

They have done nothing to improve my mood, they do seem to be keeping a lid on the mania but now I am just a huge mess of lethargy and shame and I find it amusing that lithium is supposedly helpful against suicidal rumination because all I've felt like doing is discussing just that for the past several weeks or months.. I don't even know. I am very against the psychiatric industry, I think it's total bullshit, but I have to take this at the moment, I don't have a choice.

I take quite a bit of stuff currently, the running joke I have is that I have to take my daily spoonful, here is my treatment scheme:

Morning: Escitalopram (Lexapro) 10mg
Afternoon: 250mg sodium valproate for bipolar
Evening: 150mg Venlafaxine (Effexor), 500mg sodium valproate, 10mg Aripiprazole (Abilify).

I have to take this daily, and yeah, I know what you will ask me, how the fuck am I not getting serotonin syndrome for using both a SSRI and a SNRI, well I'm a fairly large person and these are not maximum dosages so maybe that's the reason.
The other question would be, does it work? Well I don't know the answer honestly, I still have daily ideations, the bipolar issues are 80% under control, some days are better then others surely. This is my third scheme overall with my third doctor, at least this one won't send me to the ward, I hope

Yeah they put me on 10mg Aripiprazole and I felt really uncomfortable in my body. Like restlessness. Did you ever experience this? ..so anyway they changed it to Quetiapine/Seroquel...

 

[AnxietyHangover]

Yeah they put me on 10mg Aripiprazole and I felt really uncomfortable in my body. Like restlessness. Did you ever experience this? ..so anyway they changed it to Quetiapine/Seroquel...

Nope, the only symptom I have is sleepiness, I can't tell which medicine it is, certainly not the Escitalopram, probably the Venlafaxine? I have to drink quite a bit of coffee to fight the sleepiness and it doesn't work all the time...

 

[StolenLife]

I am on Zoloft and Leponex. My mental state detoriated to the point where these no longer help. Instead I've gained weight, I sleep a lot and my appetite has increased.

 

[busybee]

was on
fluomizin: Idk. Had a hard time back then regardles. Cried a lot in the bathroom at work lol
quetiapin: made me sleep all day and changed my personality so I got worse
escilopram: made me gain nearly 20 kg so I got worse
medikinet adult (add med): caused hyperproductivity that mentally drained me really hard and was part of the reason of my burnout/mental breakdown (would work nicely if the environment allows it. But when you at times only have 2 days off a months being that productive will break you)

am on
amitriptylin: helps me sleep, helps with neck pain. Doesn't do shit for depression though.
(also a viable method so that is a pro)

After the quetiapin and escilopram for half a year I still have bad (female) hormone issues so I feel far worse than before + high cholesterol from the weigh gain