Medicine combinations

[mrsdimples1]

I know why I am in such a bad place right now. I stopped my medicine for one day and begin to track my mood and anything different going on with me each day. I figured out not to take my lamictal in the morning with the adderrall because it made me irritable and weepy. I just started back on my lithium with 200mg of lamictal at bedtime. I was trying to see can I still take the klonapin since i am so manic this week. It really calms me down, but that is what the lithium is supposed to do. I am going to go to the doctor tomorrow or Friday because I can't take another weekend this eractic and angry so angry I can smell blood just because. That is not good.

[Bubulous]

You are welcome and I am not sur ehow to put you on my watch list but you can message me anytime :)

[mrsdimples1]

So I went a couple days with Lithium and Lamectal only, and last night I took a Klonapan and today I have had the worst headache, feeling lightheaded, and thirsty. I felt like I had taken a sedative, but it did relax me. It doesn't help that I am not eating, the adderal and wellbutrin take my appetite. I think I am going to get some ensure or something. I really want to feel better because I am in school to be a teacher, or run my own day care, and when I have days like I have been having, I feel like that won't happen. I hear you about the family but my girls are spoiled and selfish. They only want to talk about I didn't do this, or I sent them to school with ugly clothes. They try to make me out to be a bad parent when all their friends say I wish you were my mother. Anyway Bubulous, I have taken care of them ( 25,21, and 18) so now it is time for me to take care of me. Thanks again, and I would be thankful if you but me on you watch list because you seem to understand what I am going through.

[Bubulous]

You are of course welcome.  I think that some time for yourself would be good.  As we are cycling through the depression and anxiety, we can expect to see both.  Be on the lookout for the depression symptoms to creep back up and when they start (before you fall all the way down) challenge yourself to spend time with your family and focus on only seeing positive things.

[mrsdimples1]

Thanks for replying, I couldn't get in with the doctor, so I toughed it out some kind of way. I started the Lithium and felt a difference the next morning. It took away the rage, but not the anxiety so I don't know what to do, or how to explain it. I do know as long as I was not yelling at the kids, or feeling bad because my daughters are giving me the silent treatment I was okay. So I made them leave my house for the weekend so I could get it together. The girls, I am talking about. My boys stayed home, did chores, asked if I was okay, and played their video game and watched tv. It's like they understand that mommy is not feeling well. The clonapen is prescribed, and if I can't get calmed down tonight I am going to have to take it. Thanks again for your reply.

[Bubulous]

Yes you can take the Klonapin if you are manic and need some relief as long as it has been prescribed to you.  I would just make sure not to take it regularly, just for panic attacks and if you feel a manic episode getting out of control.