Posted by ChicagoKat on January 23, 2013, at 16:39:49
In reply to Re: Without my Ritalin I feel like dying, posted by Phil on January 23, 2013, at 14:52:58
> Switch? I guess I've been lucky because I've never had to take more or feel burnt out.
> You shouldn't suffer with other options out there.
> I do know the feeling of not having stims when they are all that get me over the hump.Thanks for the advice Phil, but I have literally been on almost every antidepressant known to man. They've been my band-aids for more than 25 years, and they have all given up on me. Stims are all that's left, but I just can't tolerate the tolerance and holidays. I finally gave up and took one and already feel better.
Now, different combos of meds is something I do need to look into. When I was inpt a few weeks ago the pdoc I had there had the brilliant idea of adding tegretol to my therapy. He said 1. It will help with the anxiety I get from stims, since benzos are out for me forever, and 2. That he and much of the psychiatric community are starting to believe that cases like mine, where I switch between depression and anxiety, actually belong on the bipolar spectrum, so the Tegretol would help as a mood stabilizer too. I must say, Tegretol has really helped.
So perhaps I need another fresh opinion. My Mom keeps trying to get me to go to the Mayo (she thinks the world of it since it was there that she was able to donate her kidney to my stepfather and it went really well...5 yrs later, stepdad is still doing great). I'm starting to wonder if I should take her up on it. It will make her happy at least.
Ive got a really bad disease
Its got me begging on my hands and knees
So take me to emergency
Cause somethin seems to be missing
Somebody take the pain away
Its like an ulcer bleeding in my brain
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