Spring 2010 - Prozac
Reaction: Increased self harm, suicidal ideation
Taken off in Summer 2010
Started Zoloft
Reaction: Good, until stopped working and trip to ER on Oct 13, 2010 (Brother's birthday)
Started Lexapro
Reaction: So far so good. I've been tapered off of it a few times, but we always add it back again. Weight gain.
Started Topamax
Reaction: Absolutely none. I'm pretty sure my psychiatrist just put me on this because it is the weakest mood stabilizer and I kept insisting I was bipolar.
CHANGED PSYCHIATRISTS
Started Risperdal
Reaction: Weight gain - and a lot of it.
December 2012
Started Lithium
Reaction: hypothyroidism, requiring Synthroid
taken off of Lexapro during hospitalization, put back on several weeks afterwards
Added PRN
Wanted to substitute Abilify for Risperdal, but it was too expensive
August 2013
Added Lamictal
Reaction: None so far
CHANGED PSYCHIATRISTS
December 2013
Added Latuda
Reaction: Nausea, return of the acne demons
Current Medications: Lamictal, Lithium, Lexapro, Latuda, Synthroid, PRN
Also, I've been on birth control since I was thinking about taking Accutane. I never ended up starting Accutane, but I decided to keep taking the birth control for convenience. Then I started having extreme PMS (suicidal when I got my period) so I switched to a pill where I only get my period four times a year.
Photo courtesy of my brother, Ben Kahn.
