So hard to find a good med

[maybeimadreamer]

I have bipolar type 2 and just need to have a bit of a rant. At the moment I am off meds, waiting to start a new lot and hoping that this will be the one that works. I have tried so many and they have all had side affects that make life even more difficult to cope with.

So I'm wondering what meds work for you? I am kind of interested to see how

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So I'm a month late...

[lonelyinheaven]

My current cocktail is lexapro 20mg, geodon 40mg twice a day (i get tardive dyskinesia, at a higher dose), buspar 15mg twice a day, pristiq 50mg, topamax 100mg, ambien 10mg, and klonopin 1-2mg. It has taken 5 years to get to this combo, now I've been on it for about 6 months, and I've been stable for about 3. Except for the chronic medication resistant insomnia that I don't think anything will ever help, but my body's become accustomed to surviving on 3-4 hours of sleep a night. Over the past two and a half years between the medication and developing binge eating disorder (while being treated at one of the leading eating disorder clinics in the country, ironic) I've gained around 100lbs. Also, TMI, but since going on geodon I can't be too far from a toilet cause when I have to go #2 I have to go immediately, there's no warning and no stopping it. Other side effects I live with are a moderate tremor in my hands which oddly enough is most noticeable when eating rice, night sweats, and duller cognition. I can't read for shit anymore (used to be my favorite hobby), I don't have the focus to sit through more than an hour tv program, I lose words when I'm speaking or writing, when typing I make tons of errors.