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Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder. Taking Lithium, Switched To Epilim, Seraquel. Treatment?

hello, i m XXXX here, i m 31 years old, before this i had depress and anxiety but now i do no why their change my disease is bipolar mood disorder their firstly change lithium ...setraline, apodiazepam and now to epilim 200, arip mt 10 and xanapam...and change again thirdly for seraquel, lsetraline and apodiazepam and now lastly i m using arip mt 10,xanapam and epilim........please help me?????
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Psychiatrist,  's  Response
hello there,
Dear in your case you have mentioned about the change in treatment, but the thing which you have not clearly mentioned is that what is the reason for that change??? whether it is due to side effects, non improvement, compliance issues, intolerability or changing of doctor. please specify that because if you are doing well on one medication, a good psychiatrist prefers not to change that. So please be little bit more specific.
Take care.
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Psychiatrist,  Dr. Gourav Monga's  Response
hello

welcome to the forum

In Bipolar disorder, there are alternating manic and depressive symptoms.....

In your case it might be the reason that you were diagnosed initially as having depression and were prescribed antidepressants (when actually you were experiencing depressive part of bipolar disorder) ........ so you were not initially diagnosed as bipolar disorder.... and it sometimes happen in initial stages

Now when your diagnosis is changed.........your treatment has been changed....

Consult your psychiatrist for all the doubts you have regarding treatment change

Good Luck

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Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder. Taking Lithium, Switched To Epilim, Seraquel. Treatment?

hello there, Dear in your case you have mentioned about the change in treatment, but the thing which you have not clearly mentioned is that what is the reason for that change??? whether it is due to side effects, non improvement, compliance issues, intolerability or changing of doctor. please specify that because if you are doing well on one medication, a good psychiatrist prefers not to change that. So please be little bit more specific. Take care.