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too many meds not enough peace
I'm on effexorxr150 mg.trazadone 200mg depakote 1000mg and zyreza 5 mg all 1x daily, Lately I have been real manic and still can't sleep I'm waking up with panic attracts and sweats. I just recently- 7-2-08 got off (went cold turkey) clozapanes. Recently I've started going to narcotics anonymous( duel addiction) and also started going on the computer checking my meds and interactions. Correct me if I'm wrong ,i read that trazadone and effexor should not be combined.Also I've been very manic! I'd like to go on natural herbs or whatever. I've also read that anixetol may take the place of trazadone, and gaia herbs, holy basil and natural nordic omegas 3 are helpful, but I haven't found (yet ) to find any data to support this.
Can you help or guide me in the right direction as I'm at my wits end?????????
Can you help or guide me in the right direction as I'm at my wits end?????????
We can help you.
Find a new doctor. The one or one's you have are over prescribing based on what you have said here. Do you only have one pdoc?
Natural herbs are not proven to work for BP in any real study - Omega 3 and St Johns Wort show some promise in some areas but you cannot use them to replace effective modern drugs and therapy.
You wont find any data to support gaia herbs or holy basil as there is none - I and others have looked as well (these 2 are current faves of the alternative healers I have a friend in my support group whose ayuverdic healer convinced her to drop her MS for holy basil and that it would cure her - so she did and one hell of psychotic manic episode followed and hospitalisation - It astounds me that people ignore a psychiatrist with as many as 10 years of training in place of someone who may have done a correspondence course in something)...
Omega 3 may have some benficial effects but it wont replace drugs itself.
Please do us a favour - get a new pdoc, talk to them honestly about what you are taking and ask them to help you find a balance that works for you - we are here to help where we can. The cocktail you are on right now is a mess and counter indicated in many ways. Dangerously so.
Find a new doctor. The one or one's you have are over prescribing based on what you have said here. Do you only have one pdoc?
Natural herbs are not proven to work for BP in any real study - Omega 3 and St Johns Wort show some promise in some areas but you cannot use them to replace effective modern drugs and therapy.
You wont find any data to support gaia herbs or holy basil as there is none - I and others have looked as well (these 2 are current faves of the alternative healers I have a friend in my support group whose ayuverdic healer convinced her to drop her MS for holy basil and that it would cure her - so she did and one hell of psychotic manic episode followed and hospitalisation - It astounds me that people ignore a psychiatrist with as many as 10 years of training in place of someone who may have done a correspondence course in something)...
Omega 3 may have some benficial effects but it wont replace drugs itself.
Please do us a favour - get a new pdoc, talk to them honestly about what you are taking and ask them to help you find a balance that works for you - we are here to help where we can. The cocktail you are on right now is a mess and counter indicated in many ways. Dangerously so.
Make you a new and reasonable reality, in other words recreate yourself..Let tht old stuff go...focus on new wants and desire. Thats a whole-ganga-lotta meds.lol I stopped taking them and is trying it all naturally. Change your focus, change your life and thinking.
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