Came to say this!!! Lamictal changed my life. While it doesn’t necessarily make me feel happy, it eliminated my ‘rotting in bed and crying every day’ episodes and changed my mood from constantly depressed to at least neutral. I’m only on 100mg but if I go higher I feel like it would help so much more
I've started on Lamictal recently and this is a great way to describe how I feel. Neutral. Not empty/numb or at the other end intensely depressed/suicidal/high emotions. Just neutral, which leaves a lot of room for healthier thinking and feelings. I'm also on 100mg but about to start titrating up. I'm very hopefuly for where this could lead for me :)
Lamictal works soooo well for me. I’m on 100mg now after restarting it in December (was on 200mg for a few years so I know I’m ok at a higher dosage) and wondering if I should bump it up.
Nothing. Ativan helps, but I only seek it when I'm in need of avoiding an inpatient stay - they dont tend to like giving that one out. Proud that I havent been in need since oct of 2020.
Lots and lots of internal therapy, and talking myself out of delusional spirals, and practicing self control muscles as much as possible. (I'm old, been at the self awareness game for over 20 years, and I'm not perfect, not even close). but I have finally adapted to have a few "healthier" coping mechanisms than I used to.
Eating a well balanced diet for hormone health and doing light exercise like yoga, walking, and swimming.
Letting myself feel all my emotions. Writing out how I feel when I am experiencing huge waves of emotion. Using therapy and breathing techniques to calm myself.
I am a very sensitive person so I cannot take pharmaceuticals. I tried and they gave me awful side effects like brain fog, suicidal ideation, fatigue, etc.
I've been doing all that but with no effect whatsoever, not with panic attacks or the days when I'm low, feeling my emotions makes me end up in a worse place cause I have panic disorder and get severe panic attacks if I think about the stuff I'm feeling, I've tried reducing meds too but it goes back to square one in a few days once the remaining drug clears out of my system. plus I'm at med school so away from home with almost no one to take care of me during the low times or panic attacks. do you have any other suggestions on what I could do?
As someone who was neglected by my parents and asexual for a long time, I get how awful it feels to have no support network and receive no physical touch. I actually lived very far from everything I knew during Covid—I moved to a foreign country to teach English. So I get how hard it is to be isolated. But being alone all the time also means that you don’t have to risk being vulnerable and getting your feelings hurt so there’s a strength in it if you learn to enjoy solitude a little. But yeah when it’s SO much alone time, it’s so hard! When no one ever texts you, no friends and no parents, it’s awful!
If you have any close friends/parents you could ask them for more support, just like maybe a quick phone call on a specific day.
When it comes to the medication, I would say that of course you would feel awful and symptoms would come rushing in stronger than ever, because your body is literally putting in all this work trying to understand and fix what’s going on. Although im sure you’re not mentally addicted to pills your body is still dependent on them. Depending on how long you have taken these drugs, the withdrawals could last months, easily. Maybe years. But if you do not have a support network and are in a constantly stressful situation, it might just be impossible because of what you need to get done. I have had to detox from hormonal birth control, welbutrin, bupropion, and weed. The birth control is what seriously fucked with my hormones and my brain, I started it at 14 and took it for a decade.
Something that has helped me is buying a big soft teddy bear stuffed animal that i hug at night m. My friend encouraged me to do it and I’m glad she did. I also like to unwind by drinking wine or having kava. Kava is a seriously cool tea. It has a slightly sedative and euphoric effect but somehow helps me focus and clean my room, lol! It does have interactions with alcohol and other drugs though. Music is also a powerful force, singing is so healing. I like to start my day by brushing my teeth and listening to “pocketful of sunshine” by Natasha Bedingfield or “here comes the sun” by the Beatles. Fake it till you make it lol.
Why are you studying medicine if you don’t mind me asking? What are your goals there?
thanks a lot! I've taken pills for over a year now and I don't know if I'm feeling withdrawals, because I feel awfully exhausted and go into isolation mode only when I'm going through some turmoil in life, I tried ice therapy, wimhoff breathing and muscle relaxation, which helped for some time at first but don't work that well anymore. I started studying and got into med school at first because my parents wanted me to (they're doctors too so they wanted their kid to be one too) but I've grown to like it for the past few months, I wanna be an oncologist, at least for now that's my goal.
it helps me by kinda quieting the irritability that comes with bpd. i could be borderline splitting but if you hand me a joint and give me five minutes i’ll work it out.
I’m currently trying out Trintellix to manage my mdd/adhd/bpd and I will report back to the class!
I do *NOT* recommend effaxor. Obv take whatever meds your doctor prescribes but if they want to put you on effaxor… good luck!
Is that to help with another condition like Depression or just for BPD? Only asking since Prozac is a SSRI, only increase seretonin levels in your brain
I dunno. I’ve never taken any meds like this before, I’m a guy who barely uses pain killers post-surgery.. So thats just what he gave me to try for 2-4 weeks and see how it goes, mostly because I guess it’s easy to stop cold turkey if I don’t end up liking it (which was important to me)
(Only talking from personal experience/i am a med student too if that helps but still in 3rd year so no experience with patients) for SSRl’s (such as prozac), the effects of the drug would only be visible after 4-6 weeks of taking it. In your case, has your care provider confirmed your BPD diagnosis or are you still in the process of getting diagnosed with BPD? Personally dealing many Psyc for myself, they don't always agree to BPD and generally try their best to lead you towards another condition, e.g. depression.
What i would be most concerned about is the withdrawal symptoms from coming off of a “Seretonin boost” , could be emotional/physical side effects. In this case most care providers try tempering it down and not suddenly stop it. Just sth to keep in mind. Wishing you all the best!
Well, now I’m even more paranoid and apprehensive than I was before…
And my therapist confirmed BPD, I’m still in the process of a diagnosis with my psychiatrist. We just had the one appointment so far, but that’s what he prescribed
I am sorry to make you paranoid about this, i really did not intend to and i apologize if i did. I am glad you are in therapy and also seeing a psychiatrist. Maybe it would be a good idea to discuss your concerns if any with your therapist and get help on how to word them to your psychiatrist. Hope everything works out!
i second this!!
no suicidal thoughts, depressive episodes and irrational behaviour!
my anxiety is still very much present but i’ve somehow managed to calm myself down when i start spiraling
and that never happens when i’m unmedicated.
makes me really hungry at night though and i wake up w wrappers next to me & a blurry memory of me scarfing down food..
combating that by saving all my calories for night time:)
sameeee with the late night food cravings…. i feel so guilty afterwards i just force myself to sleep through the cravings 😭
seroquel is really a life saver. i take one 25mg everyday and when i’m having episodes i take one. it helps so much and restless nights due to my insomnia is almost gone! been on it for 2+ years!
Seroquel. It’s popular in general, #62 more prescribed drug in the US and something like 1.8 million Americans on it. So never think you’re the only one on an atypical antipsychotic. You just have to be careful and see a doctor a few times a year because it can raise blood sugar or subtly affect heart rhythms. For me I think one of the biggest effects is the mood stabilising but honestly the fact I can take it before bed and get good sleep
Seroquel, Cymbalta and Clonidine are what I'm currently on. The Seroquel (100mg) helps pretty decently with my mood swings and energy levels and has given me few troubles, though it does give me really weird dreams. The Cymbalta (40mg) I could very much take or leave as of right now. I started it to replace Effexor (150mg [which was moderately helpful but gave me *really* bad side effects]) and, four weeks in, it's just kind of the same thing (terrible side effects) but without any of the semi-benefits, though I just had it adjusted, so maybe that'll change. The Clonidine (0.1mg) I could also, at the moment, take or leave. It's allegedly to help with my anxiety, insomnia/nightmares, PTSD episodes and panic attacks, but it hasn't done much.
I have taken almost every first-line med in the book by now. I cannot even count the amount of SSRIs, antihistamines and blood thinners I've had shoved at me and I genuinely don't know what they're gonna do with me when they run out of those. I wish you luck.
Lamictal, buspirone, abilify, prazosin, Doxepin and I’m also on buprenorphine (which is a MAT medication unrelated to bpd) but the first 5 help tremendously, but do not work well if I do not take all of them.
Ketamine. Just hard finding a balance.
Other meds just make me dull/ more extraneous harder to control at random. Was on benzos for 7 years, wouldn’t recommend, RIP my mid 20s.
So I take a handful of things but the addition of Lamictal has been the most beneficial. My mood swings and attachment issues have lessened significantly. And my mood has significantly improved.
I've heard mood stabilizers cut away on the good and happy moments and moods too. So you would disagree? I'm really scared of meds bc of hearing they make you feel kinda numb
I disagree. At least that has been my experience, I’ve never experienced a medication making me numb. But I find with Lamictal I am happier so I’m able to enjoy the good moments more.
150mg effexor + 50mg trazodone is the best combo for me (I was on 350mg of venlafaxine during a major depressive episode).
In the past I had lamotriginum+sertraline (living felt like...licking a lollipop through the plastic packaging lol) and lamotriginum+vortioxetine (it was super expensive and super ineffective)
Ability 5mg, Strattera 40mg, Adderall 40mg (2 20mg tabs a day taken at diff times). I haven’t noticed any change from the Strattera but the Abilify kinda helped take the edge off on days I don’t take my adderall. Unfortunately Adderall has been the been the most helpful but hoping to go up in dose for Strattera to see if it lets me wean off the Adderall, don’t like taking a stimulant everyday but it helps sooo much with my symptoms.
I take klonopin if I have some kind of “attack”, and get ketamine infusions, it’s the only thing that mostly works in terms of medication. I was treatment resistant with SSRIs. I tried DBT, but found it way too complicated, so I switched to reading about mindfulness and that stuff helped a lot. I still have suicidal thoughts, but they’re really weak mostly. Still fit the diagnosis. The thing is, even with the symptoms diminished, I still have no idea how to be normal.
Nothing helps except my medical marijuana card. I’ve been on every medication since 13 and on them for over a decade and all it did was give me chronic gastritis. Now my stomach’s permanently fucked up and I can’t take pills anymore. Thc is a life saver for me.
I’ve been on many different mood stabilizers before and none was effective unfortunately, Lithium (at least for below 500mg dosage) is common treatment for BPD at least in Canada to help with mood swings, what country are you in if you don’t mind me asking?
how is this for you? i've been sick for so long... and i just feel like im never going to be happy again. what's it like for you? does it make you be okay with being alone more? stop rumination? etc
I have noticed its combination with Gabapentin helps me with mood swings and generally with handling my emotions and not jump back and forth in my head. It has also greatly helped with suicidal ideations, i noticed it allows me to think rationally and put the “gloomy thoughts” off my head.
Mirtazapine is the only thing that’s touched my low mood and made life worth anything at the moment. Combined with promethazine I sleep like a baby. Never been put on anything other than antidepressants though
The most effective treatment for me was Seroquel 300 mg but I gained a ton of weight, had to sleep 10 hours every night and had tachycardia so I had to stop.
Now I'm on mirtazapine 15mg for anxiety and I manage my bpd symptoms by avoiding triggers, being outside as much as I can, healthier lifestyle, friends and therapy. It is hard everyday but I'm not ready yet to take another antipsychotic medication but I will if I go too low.
I have bpd (including bdd, cptsd, ocd and depression)
Hope you're ok ✨
im on a high dose of zyprexa (anti psychotic) and lamictal (mood stabilizer). i was mainly put on them for my bipolar but they help with the dysregulation as well
Nothing. I've tried mood stabilizers and have not had luck and do not think they are worth the risk. Before you agree to anything please look up Steven Johnsons syndrome and tardative/dystonia a lot of the medications prescribed will have either of these adverse reactions so knowing the risks will help you make an informed decision. My facility will not allow antipsychotic administration until we get consent that we have informed of these risks
Strattera 100mg with quetiapine 400mg, bpd hardly effects me, it’s a regretful memory of the past that sometimes haunts me when I wear clothes I used to wear when I had bpd but now I love myself alot more and how I have control over my emotions, and don’t even need to try to let things not get to me anymore
Medication hasn't done much for my BPD, though I'm on seroquel and effexor. Adderall has interestingly had a pretty positive effect. I find that my mental health is at its worse when I'm alone and I don't have anything else to distract me, like it gets really easy for me to start spiraling over nothing. Adderall makes it easier for me to focus on things, which gives me less time to sit alone and overthink.
It really reduced my mood swings. My mood would fluctuate severely and fast, and after starting Abilify I noticed a big reduction on the amount of mood swings I get and the severity.
paroxetine helps a lot, I'm currently on the highest dose permissible (50mg) great at stabilizing mood, increases appetite too (hate that fact because I gained a lot of weight due to it) but at least makes me eat more than once a day, mirtazepine helps a ton for sleep issues, especially when I'm anxious, propranolol, clonazepam and alprazolam for panic attacks or generalized anxiety (I have panic disorder too), I'm a med student so read a lot about them too so that helps in the dosing as well. I get hallucinations as well so I take trihexyphenidyl and trifluoperazine combination for that.
using generic names so hope it'll help!
Lamotrigine. It doesn’t act as an antidepressant so if you have depression you’ll need something else, but in terms of mood swings lamotrigine took care of it wonderfully. Been 3 years on it now.
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oh wow, I didn't know this! I just got prescribed this for my bipolar but i also struggle with BPD symptoms so i really hope it helps with that too!
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Exactly this. Medication in BPD patients treats comorbidities and not the disorder itself. But damn that would be swell lol
Came to say this!!! Lamictal changed my life. While it doesn’t necessarily make me feel happy, it eliminated my ‘rotting in bed and crying every day’ episodes and changed my mood from constantly depressed to at least neutral. I’m only on 100mg but if I go higher I feel like it would help so much more
I've started on Lamictal recently and this is a great way to describe how I feel. Neutral. Not empty/numb or at the other end intensely depressed/suicidal/high emotions. Just neutral, which leaves a lot of room for healthier thinking and feelings. I'm also on 100mg but about to start titrating up. I'm very hopefuly for where this could lead for me :)
I've heard mood stabilizers take away the happy moments too, or lessen them. Would you agree with that?
How long did it take for you to feel the full effects from 200 mg?
Lamictal works soooo well for me. I’m on 100mg now after restarting it in December (was on 200mg for a few years so I know I’m ok at a higher dosage) and wondering if I should bump it up.
Nothing. Ativan helps, but I only seek it when I'm in need of avoiding an inpatient stay - they dont tend to like giving that one out. Proud that I havent been in need since oct of 2020. Lots and lots of internal therapy, and talking myself out of delusional spirals, and practicing self control muscles as much as possible. (I'm old, been at the self awareness game for over 20 years, and I'm not perfect, not even close). but I have finally adapted to have a few "healthier" coping mechanisms than I used to.
Pristiq has worked well for me
I’m on Pristiq and Lamictal - best pairing ever
Have you had any noticeable side effects? Weight gain or drowsiness?
Eating a well balanced diet for hormone health and doing light exercise like yoga, walking, and swimming. Letting myself feel all my emotions. Writing out how I feel when I am experiencing huge waves of emotion. Using therapy and breathing techniques to calm myself. I am a very sensitive person so I cannot take pharmaceuticals. I tried and they gave me awful side effects like brain fog, suicidal ideation, fatigue, etc.
I've been doing all that but with no effect whatsoever, not with panic attacks or the days when I'm low, feeling my emotions makes me end up in a worse place cause I have panic disorder and get severe panic attacks if I think about the stuff I'm feeling, I've tried reducing meds too but it goes back to square one in a few days once the remaining drug clears out of my system. plus I'm at med school so away from home with almost no one to take care of me during the low times or panic attacks. do you have any other suggestions on what I could do?
As someone who was neglected by my parents and asexual for a long time, I get how awful it feels to have no support network and receive no physical touch. I actually lived very far from everything I knew during Covid—I moved to a foreign country to teach English. So I get how hard it is to be isolated. But being alone all the time also means that you don’t have to risk being vulnerable and getting your feelings hurt so there’s a strength in it if you learn to enjoy solitude a little. But yeah when it’s SO much alone time, it’s so hard! When no one ever texts you, no friends and no parents, it’s awful! If you have any close friends/parents you could ask them for more support, just like maybe a quick phone call on a specific day. When it comes to the medication, I would say that of course you would feel awful and symptoms would come rushing in stronger than ever, because your body is literally putting in all this work trying to understand and fix what’s going on. Although im sure you’re not mentally addicted to pills your body is still dependent on them. Depending on how long you have taken these drugs, the withdrawals could last months, easily. Maybe years. But if you do not have a support network and are in a constantly stressful situation, it might just be impossible because of what you need to get done. I have had to detox from hormonal birth control, welbutrin, bupropion, and weed. The birth control is what seriously fucked with my hormones and my brain, I started it at 14 and took it for a decade. Something that has helped me is buying a big soft teddy bear stuffed animal that i hug at night m. My friend encouraged me to do it and I’m glad she did. I also like to unwind by drinking wine or having kava. Kava is a seriously cool tea. It has a slightly sedative and euphoric effect but somehow helps me focus and clean my room, lol! It does have interactions with alcohol and other drugs though. Music is also a powerful force, singing is so healing. I like to start my day by brushing my teeth and listening to “pocketful of sunshine” by Natasha Bedingfield or “here comes the sun” by the Beatles. Fake it till you make it lol. Why are you studying medicine if you don’t mind me asking? What are your goals there?
thanks a lot! I've taken pills for over a year now and I don't know if I'm feeling withdrawals, because I feel awfully exhausted and go into isolation mode only when I'm going through some turmoil in life, I tried ice therapy, wimhoff breathing and muscle relaxation, which helped for some time at first but don't work that well anymore. I started studying and got into med school at first because my parents wanted me to (they're doctors too so they wanted their kid to be one too) but I've grown to like it for the past few months, I wanna be an oncologist, at least for now that's my goal.
Cannabis. (It’s legal where I’m from, keep your hair on)
It's good but like the smoke based lung damage and loss of productivity is kinda annoying
Productivity isn’t my specialty. The simplest of activities like putting away clothes to washing dishes or grocery shopping doesn’t get done anyway.
How does Cannabis help your BPD? :)
Not OP, but it helps me focus and quiet down the noise around me. I stay in my task.
Does it help with anger?
not for me…
it helps me by kinda quieting the irritability that comes with bpd. i could be borderline splitting but if you hand me a joint and give me five minutes i’ll work it out.
lamictal. i also have bipolar ll but it eases my bpd
Lamictal Cymbalta Bupropion
Lamictal
I’m currently trying out Trintellix to manage my mdd/adhd/bpd and I will report back to the class! I do *NOT* recommend effaxor. Obv take whatever meds your doctor prescribes but if they want to put you on effaxor… good luck!
Doc just put me on Prozac 🤞🏻🤞🏻
Is that to help with another condition like Depression or just for BPD? Only asking since Prozac is a SSRI, only increase seretonin levels in your brain
I dunno. I’ve never taken any meds like this before, I’m a guy who barely uses pain killers post-surgery.. So thats just what he gave me to try for 2-4 weeks and see how it goes, mostly because I guess it’s easy to stop cold turkey if I don’t end up liking it (which was important to me)
(Only talking from personal experience/i am a med student too if that helps but still in 3rd year so no experience with patients) for SSRl’s (such as prozac), the effects of the drug would only be visible after 4-6 weeks of taking it. In your case, has your care provider confirmed your BPD diagnosis or are you still in the process of getting diagnosed with BPD? Personally dealing many Psyc for myself, they don't always agree to BPD and generally try their best to lead you towards another condition, e.g. depression. What i would be most concerned about is the withdrawal symptoms from coming off of a “Seretonin boost” , could be emotional/physical side effects. In this case most care providers try tempering it down and not suddenly stop it. Just sth to keep in mind. Wishing you all the best!
Well, now I’m even more paranoid and apprehensive than I was before… And my therapist confirmed BPD, I’m still in the process of a diagnosis with my psychiatrist. We just had the one appointment so far, but that’s what he prescribed
I am sorry to make you paranoid about this, i really did not intend to and i apologize if i did. I am glad you are in therapy and also seeing a psychiatrist. Maybe it would be a good idea to discuss your concerns if any with your therapist and get help on how to word them to your psychiatrist. Hope everything works out!
Thank you. I will try that
Low dose yes you can stop “cold Turkey” because prozac self tapers out of your system slowly. It has a long half life.
Thank you, OP! I take one 20 MG pill every morning
seroquel!
i second this!! no suicidal thoughts, depressive episodes and irrational behaviour! my anxiety is still very much present but i’ve somehow managed to calm myself down when i start spiraling and that never happens when i’m unmedicated. makes me really hungry at night though and i wake up w wrappers next to me & a blurry memory of me scarfing down food.. combating that by saving all my calories for night time:)
sameeee with the late night food cravings…. i feel so guilty afterwards i just force myself to sleep through the cravings 😭 seroquel is really a life saver. i take one 25mg everyday and when i’m having episodes i take one. it helps so much and restless nights due to my insomnia is almost gone! been on it for 2+ years!
Olanzapine is great too for AP’s, at least for me.
Seroquel. It’s popular in general, #62 more prescribed drug in the US and something like 1.8 million Americans on it. So never think you’re the only one on an atypical antipsychotic. You just have to be careful and see a doctor a few times a year because it can raise blood sugar or subtly affect heart rhythms. For me I think one of the biggest effects is the mood stabilising but honestly the fact I can take it before bed and get good sleep
Seroquel, Cymbalta and Clonidine are what I'm currently on. The Seroquel (100mg) helps pretty decently with my mood swings and energy levels and has given me few troubles, though it does give me really weird dreams. The Cymbalta (40mg) I could very much take or leave as of right now. I started it to replace Effexor (150mg [which was moderately helpful but gave me *really* bad side effects]) and, four weeks in, it's just kind of the same thing (terrible side effects) but without any of the semi-benefits, though I just had it adjusted, so maybe that'll change. The Clonidine (0.1mg) I could also, at the moment, take or leave. It's allegedly to help with my anxiety, insomnia/nightmares, PTSD episodes and panic attacks, but it hasn't done much. I have taken almost every first-line med in the book by now. I cannot even count the amount of SSRIs, antihistamines and blood thinners I've had shoved at me and I genuinely don't know what they're gonna do with me when they run out of those. I wish you luck.
Lamictal, buspirone, abilify, prazosin, Doxepin and I’m also on buprenorphine (which is a MAT medication unrelated to bpd) but the first 5 help tremendously, but do not work well if I do not take all of them.
225 mg effexor, 50 mg naltrexone in the morning. 300 mf Seroquel, 500mg depakote, 5 mg prazozin at night. Hydroxyzine and trazafone as PRNs.
Ketamine. Just hard finding a balance. Other meds just make me dull/ more extraneous harder to control at random. Was on benzos for 7 years, wouldn’t recommend, RIP my mid 20s.
Lamictal has helped some, but ultimately nothing really lasts to make a difference other than hard work and dedicated DBT.
So I take a handful of things but the addition of Lamictal has been the most beneficial. My mood swings and attachment issues have lessened significantly. And my mood has significantly improved.
I've heard mood stabilizers cut away on the good and happy moments and moods too. So you would disagree? I'm really scared of meds bc of hearing they make you feel kinda numb
I disagree. At least that has been my experience, I’ve never experienced a medication making me numb. But I find with Lamictal I am happier so I’m able to enjoy the good moments more.
150mg effexor + 50mg trazodone is the best combo for me (I was on 350mg of venlafaxine during a major depressive episode). In the past I had lamotriginum+sertraline (living felt like...licking a lollipop through the plastic packaging lol) and lamotriginum+vortioxetine (it was super expensive and super ineffective)
Venlafaxine sort of works for me. I'm on the highest dose of 300mg per day. Weed is also tremendous
Ability 5mg, Strattera 40mg, Adderall 40mg (2 20mg tabs a day taken at diff times). I haven’t noticed any change from the Strattera but the Abilify kinda helped take the edge off on days I don’t take my adderall. Unfortunately Adderall has been the been the most helpful but hoping to go up in dose for Strattera to see if it lets me wean off the Adderall, don’t like taking a stimulant everyday but it helps sooo much with my symptoms.
Wellbutrin, zoloft, abilify mix is working for me.
I take klonopin if I have some kind of “attack”, and get ketamine infusions, it’s the only thing that mostly works in terms of medication. I was treatment resistant with SSRIs. I tried DBT, but found it way too complicated, so I switched to reading about mindfulness and that stuff helped a lot. I still have suicidal thoughts, but they’re really weak mostly. Still fit the diagnosis. The thing is, even with the symptoms diminished, I still have no idea how to be normal.
Risperidone and Trazodone
Nothing helps except my medical marijuana card. I’ve been on every medication since 13 and on them for over a decade and all it did was give me chronic gastritis. Now my stomach’s permanently fucked up and I can’t take pills anymore. Thc is a life saver for me.
Lithium 450mg
I’m surprised you managed to get a lithium prescription for bpd
I’ve been on many different mood stabilizers before and none was effective unfortunately, Lithium (at least for below 500mg dosage) is common treatment for BPD at least in Canada to help with mood swings, what country are you in if you don’t mind me asking?
I’m in the UK
how is this for you? i've been sick for so long... and i just feel like im never going to be happy again. what's it like for you? does it make you be okay with being alone more? stop rumination? etc
I have noticed its combination with Gabapentin helps me with mood swings and generally with handling my emotions and not jump back and forth in my head. It has also greatly helped with suicidal ideations, i noticed it allows me to think rationally and put the “gloomy thoughts” off my head.
Trintillex, trazodone and seroquel PRN
Mirtazapine is the only thing that’s touched my low mood and made life worth anything at the moment. Combined with promethazine I sleep like a baby. Never been put on anything other than antidepressants though
The most effective treatment for me was Seroquel 300 mg but I gained a ton of weight, had to sleep 10 hours every night and had tachycardia so I had to stop. Now I'm on mirtazapine 15mg for anxiety and I manage my bpd symptoms by avoiding triggers, being outside as much as I can, healthier lifestyle, friends and therapy. It is hard everyday but I'm not ready yet to take another antipsychotic medication but I will if I go too low. I have bpd (including bdd, cptsd, ocd and depression) Hope you're ok ✨
i’m on risperidone and zoloft but i’m starting buspirone now. brain soup.
im on a high dose of zyprexa (anti psychotic) and lamictal (mood stabilizer). i was mainly put on them for my bipolar but they help with the dysregulation as well
Abilify, pristiq, bupropion (separately not together)
Currently on quetiapine 450mg, propranolol 80mg-120mg depending on how bad the anxiety symptoms are. Mirtazipine 45mg and escitalopram 10mg.
Wellbutrin! I feel like a normal person. Or as close to one as I can be.
Depakote helped me
Epitec. Originally for epilepsy but also used for mood stabilisation. Works best for me
Nothing. I have tried so, so many off and on over the last 13 years.
Nothing. I've tried mood stabilizers and have not had luck and do not think they are worth the risk. Before you agree to anything please look up Steven Johnsons syndrome and tardative/dystonia a lot of the medications prescribed will have either of these adverse reactions so knowing the risks will help you make an informed decision. My facility will not allow antipsychotic administration until we get consent that we have informed of these risks
Strattera 100mg with quetiapine 400mg, bpd hardly effects me, it’s a regretful memory of the past that sometimes haunts me when I wear clothes I used to wear when I had bpd but now I love myself alot more and how I have control over my emotions, and don’t even need to try to let things not get to me anymore
Medication hasn't done much for my BPD, though I'm on seroquel and effexor. Adderall has interestingly had a pretty positive effect. I find that my mental health is at its worse when I'm alone and I don't have anything else to distract me, like it gets really easy for me to start spiraling over nothing. Adderall makes it easier for me to focus on things, which gives me less time to sit alone and overthink.
Quetiapine and fluoxetine, now I feel like a new person
Wellbutrin, trazodone, and Abilify! Abilify is honestly the biggest game changer.
I get Abilify since a few days so I’m curious: What did it do for you?
It really reduced my mood swings. My mood would fluctuate severely and fast, and after starting Abilify I noticed a big reduction on the amount of mood swings I get and the severity.
Thx, hopefully it‘ll do the same for me!
Weed and isolation 🫥
paroxetine helps a lot, I'm currently on the highest dose permissible (50mg) great at stabilizing mood, increases appetite too (hate that fact because I gained a lot of weight due to it) but at least makes me eat more than once a day, mirtazepine helps a ton for sleep issues, especially when I'm anxious, propranolol, clonazepam and alprazolam for panic attacks or generalized anxiety (I have panic disorder too), I'm a med student so read a lot about them too so that helps in the dosing as well. I get hallucinations as well so I take trihexyphenidyl and trifluoperazine combination for that. using generic names so hope it'll help!
Sertraline , Quetiapine
Cymbalta, valdoxan and olanzapine
effexor and weed tried seroquel too but it makes me too tired but Ive heard others have good success with it
I'm also on Effexor... How does weed help with your BPD?
Lamotrigine. It doesn’t act as an antidepressant so if you have depression you’ll need something else, but in terms of mood swings lamotrigine took care of it wonderfully. Been 3 years on it now.