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Suggest Right Medication For Anxiety, Personality Disorder And Bipolar
hello sir, my husband has been diagnosed with anxiety avoidance personality disorder and effective bi polarity. he has been given clonorest thrice daily, lamosyn 100 twice daily and escitalent plus once at night. he has been taking these for last 3 days. he hes been complaining of sleepiness during day time. is it normal or he needs a chance in his medication? what other supplements he needs to take?
Fri, 2 May 2014
Hi,
Thanks for writing to us,
I went through the history you have provided. Three days of taking medications is not sufficient to comment whether he needs any change in his medication. Clonorest is clonazepam and is given to your husband only for immediate relief in his anxiety. But if it is inducing sleep during the day then the dose can be reduced or even stopped. It is given for reducing anxiety while escitalopram starts showing benefit.
Hope this helps
Dr A Rao
Thanks for writing to us,
I went through the history you have provided. Three days of taking medications is not sufficient to comment whether he needs any change in his medication. Clonorest is clonazepam and is given to your husband only for immediate relief in his anxiety. But if it is inducing sleep during the day then the dose can be reduced or even stopped. It is given for reducing anxiety while escitalopram starts showing benefit.
Hope this helps
Dr A Rao
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