Amanda...no trigs

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Amanda...no trigs
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Tue, 10-25-2005 - 8:32am

Amanda,

First of all, you are not useless. Secondly, you are so beautiful...I wish you could see you the way I see you! Honey, I know you are coming down even further on the Depa, and I see your mood coming down with it. I also know you are on Clonazepam instead of Ativan right now too. I had that happen to me once too, twice actually. Now, you can get through it. Its not easy, I won't lie to you ever. But it can be done. Are you on a/d right now? Can you ask your pdoc for Prozac? It helps with panic/anxiety attacks. Since I've been on my low dose Prozac, my panic and anxiety levels have decreased by about half. I still have a lot of Ativan left and I am usually OUT by this time in the month. My pdoc increased my Ativan and I don't even need it now.

Clonazepam is supposed to work slowly, all day. For me, it didn't, because I was used to taking so much Ativan. Which is why it was taken from me. Your body can adjust to it through, if you take it as rxed every single day. No drinking with it. That messes it up in your system.

When do you go back to your pdoc? Can you call her? I am really worried about you. When I came off all my meds like that, without anything to replace it, I ended up I/P.

Talk to me, if you can, okay?

Love you, honey.

Keli

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Registered: 02-06-2004
In reply to: keli003
Tue, 10-25-2005 - 2:16pm

Keli, blah...I still say I'm useless, but thanks.


If it were from the depa, I'd expect I'd be getting manic, although I did kind of get there when it was first decreased. At this point I'm probably at a low enough level that it's probably not going to make me any more manic. I don't see how it could bring me down though. I am on wellbutrin. I don't think it's doing much. It did make me manic when I started it before the mood stabilizer. Right now the perphenazine is my main stabilizer (it's an antipsychotic). My pdoc does want to change the a/d to something like paxil. I told her the paxil made me manic so I don't know if it's that she's still thinking of or something else, but in any case she is thinking of a

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