Thread: New medication help
View Single Post
  (#1 (permalink)) Old
Music Offline
Thoroughly medicated
I've been here a while
********
 
Music's Avatar
 
Name: Richard
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Location: Alberta, Canada

Posts: 1,527
Points: 19,767, Level: 20
Points: 19,767, Level: 20 Points: 19,767, Level: 20 Points: 19,767, Level: 20
Blog Entries: 12
Join Date: January 5th 2009
New medication help - March 27th 2012, 12:03 PM
My psychiatrist recently started on Lamictal, I'm already taking 1200mg of Lithium a day, 1000mg of Tegretol a day, and 1mg of Ativan whenever I need it (which ends up being 1 or 2 every couple weeks). I'm also taking Azathioprine for an Immune disorder.
For this medication she's had me decide my own dosage and titration as she believes I know more about it than her. However, I know that Lamictal and Tegretol interfere with eachother's metabolism and I'm not sure how this affects dosage. I'm fairly certain I need to double up on the Lamictal but for some reason I'm unsure if I'm supposed to lower the Tegretol or not.
She was going to put me on Zeldox but decided I don't eat enough. Then Invega but my intestinal tract is narrowed which is apparently contraindicted. According to her Lamictal is the last medication I can try so I really want to make this work.

Member since 2005