Trileptal for mood disorders
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Abilify is specifically FDA approved for both mood disorders and psychotic disorders. If a person has a mood disorder that would have any type of psychosis as part of it they would most likely need an antipsychotic. Otherwise there are a wide variety of mood stabilizers although only a psychiatrist would understand the clinical specifics.
s used for mood disorders. I currently take medication for depression/anxiety unrelated to my MS, and I know that when I miss a dose I feel it within a few hours. This is usually in the form of headache and nausea though.
It wouldn't hurt to bring it up to your doctor to establish that nothing else is at play here.
As for mood stabilizers you can go to the links page but assuming you tried Lithium and Depakoate (which are the most used mood stabilizers) there is Trileptal, Topomax, Keppra and Neurontin. Those are more in use. Lovaza is an anti-cholesterol medication used experimentally for bipolar and it works in the same manner as fish oil. That is FDA approved and has shown promising results.
It is the same with topomax, I asked my pdoc for that but it has not yet been licensed for mood disorders yet it can be prescribed for severe migraine! Oh well. The tegratol does seem to helping a little, my mood swings seem to have calmed down and I don't feel like a zombie, just slightly thick headed on and off throughout the day, also the bloatedness and constipation should ease up once my body gets used to it so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this will be the one for me.
Thank you for the list of meds... Every time I have to change meds my psych dr acts like she can't think of any other meds to put me on. I was on klonopin for years and it became ineffective which is why I am now on xanax.
You need to see a psychiatrist for an evaluation and to determine what course of treatment would be best for you. There are things that happen to us that can be too much for us to handle on our own, and that's okay. There is so much help for you and you need to take advantage of it. Your children have endured a lot and need you more than ever, let them be your driving force.
Bipolar is about periods of elevated mood (rage and euphoria) and depressed mood (both of which must be present for a diagnosis) whereas controlling behaviour is more of a stable, non-mood-related thing. I think lilymoon's suggestion is best. A counsellor should be able to provide a safe, fair environment where you both can work out what has gone wrong and what can be done. Also they should be able to refer either of you to psychological treatment should they think it necessary.
The doctors are still having a difficult time finding the right fix for my Thyroid. This can effect your mood among many things. Back to this new dr. I learned that I was very low on Vit D and very, very low, he said, on Vit B. He also recommended Fish Oil with no mercury in it. I didn't realize how much all of these things could help my Bipolar. Obviously doing these things can only help me. But it's a little overwhelming and sometimes a bit hard to understand.
Admission to having a mood disorder appears to be fashionable lately; thanks, in large part, to campaigning groups encouraging celebrities to "out" themselves.
With all this talk about disorders - what is "mood order"? and how does "mood order" go from being ordered to being disordered - sometimes seemingly overnight?!
Thank you both for your responses. I'm new on here and thought I was posting it to Mood Disorders. Bchild1108, taking away her favorite toy has helped, we will have to continue that. And your idea about those foods, we too will try taking away one at a time to see if there is any changes. As far as depressed, I don't think so. She never mentions a headache. There are times she looks really tired and seems to act up worse when she is.
My daughter has recently started being evaluated for a mood disorder. She is 14. The counselor told me that it is difficult to diagnose bipolar disorder in teens, and suggested another disorder something that began with a "D". I have been looking at internet sites hoping to find what she might have been referring to, but haven't so far. Can you help?
Experimental as in they have been FDA approved for other uses but not for bipolar yet. Go to a mood disorders specialist and since there are a variety of forms of bipolar they can figure out which one is best for you. It may take a while to figure out the right medication and combination but while there are a set series of anti-psychotics, there are a wide variety of FDA approved medications which can be used off label as mood stabilizers.
I think Geodon is for BP patients who have equal mania and depression or more on the manic side (as opposed to Lamictal which is used for greater depressive BP). Trileptal is very similar to Tegretol - in fact, I think they are the same molecule but varied somewhat. I've read a statement from a Psychiatrist that Tegretol is always more successful for them than Trileptal is. Go to Bipolarworld - the Dr. in charge of that wrote a abstract of his experience using Tegretol vs Trileptal for BP.
Which mood stabilizers don't require monthly blood testing? Which of these is best to use?
in 2000 i was diagonosed with biopolor disorder i had my assorment of drug theropy i ended with a cocktale of trileptal, trazadone and lexapro when i found out i was pregnat in 2004. They took me off all my meds and have been med free until about 6 months ago when i went completely off the wall...They then put me on lexapro and ativan.. I went to a psychiotrist 3 weeks ago who took me off both of those meds and put me on Seroquel 150mg and trileptal 1200mg.
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