Mine is lorazepam . This is not the normal choice . But I have been on more than 20 different meds and never found the right combination, so I officially gave up . But ...I know many people who do not have the supportive family that I have that makes sure I don't fall off the deep end when I get really depressed and they also tell me when i am acting like the world is my personal playground of destruction.
My advice is to keep trying new things with a physician you trust to listen to how the meds you are on are making you feel and one that is willing to try to make changes until you feel like you are doing OK . This seems to be a very long hard search for most of bipolar individuals. Good luck....keep trying

In my bathroom is a bag of thirty-something little bottles of leftover pills that I no longer take for one reason (effect or side effect) or another. As it happens, lorazepam makes me horribly depressed. My current cocktail includes Wellbutrin, Cymbalta, lithium, Seroquel, Geodon and thyroid medication and it's been working really well since May. I'm a very rapid cycler, so that's long enough to have hope, but not long enough to have any real faith in its long-term efficacy. Now mind you, I love and trust my psychiatrist with my life so all this experimentation is completely consensual... and if this combination stops working for whatever reason (keep your fingers crossed for me that it doesn't), we'll go right back to experimenting until we find whatever does work. I try and think of it as a process, rather than a goal.

The real answer is that the reason there are so very many brain drugs out there is because they can't be trusted to give the same results from person to person - what works for Lisa does horrible things to me and undoubtedly vice-versa. Make sure you've got a psychiatrist you trust (and they have to be a real psychiatrist, one who's up on current research, not a doctor who dabbles) and experiment. The closer you get to what works for you, the less jarring the changes are and the smaller the swings - at least that's been my experience.

Lithium

lamictal

Have tryed just about every thing, some has helped for alittle while, the side effects were too
much for me and wind up locked up.
For almost six years now, I've been level out and able to live an so called normal life and have
turned my life around. Still have my ups and downs now I'm able to deal with it know what my
triggers are. Having a psychiatrist that you trust and works with you is the key,also staying on
my meds, attend bipolar group therpy.

Thyroid hormone.....although I have been on many medications. They are still concidering shock treatment for me. I am unable to take a lot of the medications due to the many other medicines I take for Crohns and a few other illnesses. Just keep trying and make sure you explain everything that you are feeling, stesses, physical pains.....everything......and make sure you doctor understands. Good luck

I just started Lithium.

Lithium

Seroquel. I must have my seroquel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But the XR vertion makes it soooo much better.!

FragileMentality... In what ways is the Seroquel XR better? I've been on Seroquel for a number of years and my doctor has just (as in starting tonight) switched me to the XR. What can I expect???

Wellbutrin SR, Lamictal and Effexor XR for me.

Would viagra count.
It makes me steady.

geodon. i have been on it for two years and it works pretty good for me.

SEROQUAL -QUIETAPINE You control it to control you as much as you wish.

Lithium, such a sneaky litle peice of salt! After 14 or so years on Lithium, it turned on me. I started having "black outs", I would be driving down the highway and would get lost (even with my GPS) I would look around and be on streets or highways I had no idea how I got there. I even led the Highway Patrol on a 25 mile an hour chase for about 15 min. the cop told me. They said I was weaving in and out of my lane, but I don'e remember any of that. They took me to the hospital ER and they ran a shit pot load of test, they finallly figured out my liver levels sky rocketed, my kidney function went way down to all most they needed to do dyalisis, my Lithium level went through the roof. I would stumble when I was walking, I couldn't keep my balance very well, I had a serious case of tremmors that I could not stop or control, and other things similier. I never noticed any of that. They said that when these things start happening, my body was starting to shut down do to LITHIUM POISONING!!!! I even slept one time for just over 18 hours without waking at all. When I did wake up all I wanted to do was sleep. It was as if I was very seriously drunk, but no alcohal in my system. They told me if I didn't get help possibly within a couple of days, the Lithium would have killed me. I was that far into toxic poisoning. I just got me a new Pdoc last week and he said the Lithium shold have been a short term thing and should not have been more than four or five years. So now just have my seroquel and wellbuterin. The Dept. of motor vehiceles suspended my licsense because of this and now I lost my job because of this. It sucks! I have driven trucks (18 wheelers) for the past 25 years and because I was in a truck when the chase happended, now no licsense. I am not sure I will ever get it back now, either. When they took my licsense, yes that means I can't even drive my car. now all I have is public transit. Rideing the bus all the time is not fun. At least when a family member can, they offer to drive me around to get things done.I have a hearing in a couple weeks and they said at that time they will decide if they will let me drive again or not. I do understand their side, they have to think of the safety of the public, so I am not fighting any of this, I just want it to be over. Well that's my story, I hope this will help someone else on Lithium before it is to late for them.