nemileah 
5:07am, March 20, 2009
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Close Fibromyalgia
Treatments
- Aqua Therapy Working / Worked
- Hot water therapy worked when I was first diagnosed, and am now starting another round.
- Cymbalta Not Working
- Used this for a bit, interacted with a psych med I was on, and I basically went crazy and got suicidal and ended up in the hospital.
- Lyrica Working / Worked
- This works for me, although I know it doesn't work for everyone. All my sensitive points were horrid, and now I can wear a bra again, get hugs again, and not feel bruised all over.
- TENS Somewhat Helpful
- Used this for a while, helped some, but I no longer have access to the portable, at-home TENS unit I had at one time.
- Ultram Not Working
- Didn't do anything for my pain.
- Provigil Working / Worked
- This is a stimulantlike medication that is not an actual stimulant so it is safer. I take a dose when I wake up and one in the early afternoon and it keeps me awake and in a useful state of energy. Does not make me jittery and it is really worth a try for fatigue as I was sleeping up to 18 hours a day before.
Close Anxiety
Treatments
- BuSpar Not Working
- Did not do anything for me.
- Klonopin Working / Worked
- This works for me, but I have had to continually increase the dose with my doctor for effectiveness, and that worries me a bit. I take four milligrams of klonopin a day, spread out through the day.
- Positive Thinking Working / Worked
- Therapy and daily meditation books that inspire me have helped immeasurably.
- Trazodone Not Working
- This med had a weird effect on me: it worked for helping me fall asleep, quieted my mind, but then, at a dose of about 350mg, it gave me a problem with swallowing, where I would lie in bed and feel like I was choking, so I had to go off of it.
- Zoloft Not Working
- This med helped my anxiety as well as my depression--however, it made sexual activity nearly impossible, as I was not able to get aroused and also could not climax. Went off this med because of that, and now take Wellbutrin.
Open Bipolar Disorder
I was diagnosed right when I turned 18, but had many episodes before that. I have been hospitalized many times for psychoses, and a couple times for depression. I have tried every med out there, and it is a constant business of fine-tuning meds according to mood changes. It is worth the effort to get great psychiatric care!
Treatments
- Abilify Working / Worked
- Currently take 15mg every morning, helps a lot with controlling mania/psychoses without making me tired.
- Depakote Not Working
- Took this when first diagnosed, about ten years ago, and did not work...also had side effects of a weird kind of lactation, and my hair falling out, as well as major swelling in my ankles and some weight gain.
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Working / Worked
- I am now in DBT therapy, and it is the most effective and helpful tool I have found for coping with my crazy emotions--even better than any medication!
- Haldol Working / Worked
- This worked for me when I was really messed up and kept getting psychotic. I got monthly injections.
- Lamictal Working / Worked
- This worked for a while, then stopped, so I stopped taking it.
- Lithium Working / Worked
- I took this medication for over six years and only went off of it very recently, to try a new med. Lithium really helped me, though. The only downside is there are a lot of meds that interact with it, that you can't take at the same time as you take lithium, which is a huge pain.
- Risperdal Working / Worked
- This medication seemed to work, but gave me dystonia (muscles feel like they're turning to stone).
- Seroquel Working / Worked
- I now take 600mg of this at night, and have been on as much as 900mg. It has changed my life. Took a while to get used to, because I woke feeling hungover, but was worth fighting through.
- Topamax Not Working
- Did not work, and also made me really forgetful and dizzy.
- Trileptal Not Working
- Didn't do much for me.
- Wellbutrin Working / Worked
- I am currently taking 300mg of Wellbutrin XL. It has helped me more than any other antidepressant.
- Zyprexa Not Working
- This gave me the very unfortunate side effect of tardive dyskinesia, which I had to take other treatments to get rid of. Horribl, but I know it works for some people.
- Restoril Working / Worked
- I have a hard time sleeping and always have but taking the max dose of 30mg of this at night has been helping me recently.
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