So. My depression and anxiety has been steadily improving since I started to take Lithium as an adjunct to my SSRI. Therefore my doctor and I decided that I get off of my dose of .5mg Risperidone....
I'm currently taking the max dosage of Zoloft which I think may be making the condition worse. I believe once my psychiatrist gets me to the point of not having these depressive attacks be so bad he...
Karen, with Lithium they basically put you on a dosage that will get you into the therapeutic range (.8-1.2) since I am in that range I cannot take any more. My hope with the Lithium is that after 4...
4 weeks ago - my MDD/GAD was rediagnosed as Bipolar Mood Spectrum Disorder. (Essentially this is Bipolar without Mania or Hypomania.) I would have rapidly cycling depression and anxiety (10-14 days...
All you can do is help yourself. Make sure to maintain connections with both a therapist whom you feel comfortable with and a psychiatrist you can trust....
Hey all, I posted a couple weeks ago about lithium and how long it would take to reach full effects. I have been at my therapuetic level (.8-.9) for approximately four weeks now. I started out with...
I've done genecept testing and they just recommend meds that may work due to the way you metabolize medications through your p450 cyp's....
Check out psycheducation.org . It has a lot of information on bipolar without the mania or even hypomania....
Thanks so much for the quick response HT :)...
After years of cyclic depression (approximately 10-14 days feeling normal and then 7-10 of awful depression and anxiety) the doctors have put together that I may be on the "bipolar spectrum." I guess...
Thanks Scaredy Cat. I do have a therapist and am taking my meds as prescribed. I've been working on coping skills for some time now but when things go downhill it's very hard....
I'm 28 and have had anxiety and some depression since I was 18. I realize that I will always have to live with some level of anxiety, but there are times when I feel like myself and that's great....
I was just wondering if anyone has experienced a worsening of symptoms while your body (head) gets used to the new higher dosage. Thank you for the kind words Karen :)...
Hi, So I had been on 10mg of Trintellix for 10 weeks and while it may have helped a little bit, there was still plenty of depression and anxiety left. 5 days ago I was bumped up to 20mg and a few...
I'm on Trintellix and get samples from my psychiatrist. I did check with my insurance company though and it would be covered. It's been FDA approved for about 5 years I think so it's probably half...
I think when Clonidine came out in 1974 it was meant for just blood pressure but since then they have found that it works by blocking the adrenals (a2 receptor). My blood pressure alone is fine, a...
Just wanted to add that I was put on Clonidine 0.1mg today. I just took my first one a half hour ago and while I don't want to jinx the process...my God, I feel at ease and my body does not have that...
Lendi, your situation seems similar in a lot of ways. When I feel good I feel like the "normal" me, it's not some ecstatic feeling, just solid and level, like everything will be ok and I can think...
S.C, Thanks so much for the kind and supportive words. It's when I start to lose hope that things really get awful. I will be in touch. Hopefully this is, as you say, temporary, hopefully very...
Minnesota, The Klonopin and CBD both help somewhat when my body is in that "fight or flight" type of response. They help with the anger and irritability and even some of the anxiety and ruminating....
Thanks scaredy cat, My problem is that my symptoms say right now are unbearable. My blood feels like it's burning and restless and exhausted at the same time. Wondering how long it may take for the...
Hi! This is my first time posting on the anxiety section of healing well. I've long suffered from symptoms of depression and even gotten treated for chronic Lyme disease due to my symptoms. Recently...
Ohh I am seeing a psychiatrist, I'm just looking for people who also suffer from something similar to this. Everything I find doesn't really fit my situation....
I've read a lot about depression and anxiety and the cycles that people have. Mine seems to follow a shorter and more predictable pattern though. I will feel fine, not manic, or even hypomanic (my...
https://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=219152[/url] Could this be really good news?...
I had been on 60mg of Prozac for 8 years and when a doctor wanted me to start getting off of it I was weary, I thought this drug had saved my life. I weaned off of it rather quickly with little to no...
Here is a quick interpretation of my battle with Anxiety and Depression: My Symptoms have been going on in a cyclical fashion since I was 16-17 years old. Prozac (which I took from age 19-27 at a...
Try giving goshawk an email, I got some names from her/him but don't want to forward them without goshawk's permission :)...
Girlie, I have always just had the WB. That's where those IgM markers have come from. If those markers will always show up then the test was useless in the past as a diagnostic tool because yes, I...
Girlie, even IGM markers? I have had 23 and 41 positive for years and that's why eventually I decided (after getting treated 5 times for 2 weeks) to treat for chronic Lyme. I spoke with a...
I will be moving from VT to Mass pretty soon and was wondering if anyone could suggest a reliable LLMD in Central or Western Massachusetts? I really need to take a break from treatment to get my...
Alright so I've been here before but I really feel like I'm losing it. I'm 28 and I had to fly from Vermont (where I live alone) to Florida (where my parents live in the winter) a week ago because I...
I have been on 10mg of Zoloft for 5 days now and while it is making a small difference I am hopeful it will make much more of an effect once I reach the 4-6 weeks for full effect. If this works well...
Thanks to both of you. If I can get this anxiety under control, I really am not bothered too much by the physical symptoms anymore. I would not mind taking herbals to slowly get better. Ive been off...
Hi again. So I've been treating chronic lyme for 16 months with abx. During this time I have gotten off of my original dose of 60mg/day of Prozac and .5mg 2x/day of Klonipin. Since starting treatment...
Evanston, I just watched some videos on youtube. It is indeed gross. I'm just wondering why, if we can actually see the borrellia, why LLMD's arent using this method to report chronic cases to the...
Traveler, Again, thanks for your post. So, if I do heal completely from the borrelia I should no longer test postive for these bands (23 and 41) on my IgM? My doctor is pretty confident that I will...
Traveler, I dont think (if I do have Lyme) that I got it 5 different times. Whenever I would be feeling extreme fatigue and depression, I would go to a clinic and they would run a western blot. All...
My physical symptoms have definitely improved since they got really bad all of a sudden in Fall of 2016. ( at this point I could barley get out of bed...) My fatigue is greatly reduced as well as...
I dont get how Alan MacDonald can find spirochetes in 7/10 alzheimers brains but we cannot test for spirochetes in live bodies. I was so hopeful by seeing this article, but it really proves nothing....
I'm sure this has been asked before. But I feel that a lot of my anxiety comes from not knowing if im doing the right thing by treating Lyme instead of anxiety and depression that has plagued me for...
Under my first LLMD, who I didnt have much success with, I was treating babesia with specific herbals. My new LLMD says that the medicines he prescribes make people better and that it is not...
Thanks for the response Rikky, My bad, He said "several" more years not a few, I may have used the word few instead of several, not sure, and he didn't say completely healed.. my bad again. My goal...
So I've been treating Chronic Lyme with Abx for 16 months now and just found out it will be several more years before I am "complete" and "fully healed" Is there anyone out there who can vouch that...
I would love to try some of these things but my LLMD, who has great reviews and has had success treating lyme, wants me to just keep it basic on just the abx and anti yeast meds. I agree with him for...
Thanks for the response, My doctor really wanted me to get completely off of antidepressants to eliminate additional variables in how I feel. I was on 60mg of Prozac a day and .5mg of Clonipin 2x a...
Hi, If I had the power to laugh I would have because I was just about to post an extremely similar post. I too have been getting treated for chronic lyme since 2016. Currently I do have a lot of my...
Jinna, where do you live and what do you do where you get bit so frequently?? Sounds to me like you should move! But yes, I agree that keeping the immune system healthy is key. I don't think there is...
yes, hopefully that shows up on the tests they did, I will remember this at my appointment tomorrow. thanks!...
I tried CBD recently and it worked surprisingly well for the worry and anxiety that often accompanies wondering what in the world is going on in there. If you can get some nearby, id give it a try, I...