I'm currently on a low dose of trileptal, which is working positively, planning on increasing the dosage later and adding some kind of anti depressant. Previously, I've had horrible experiences with medications. Keep in mind, I wasn't diagnosed with bipolar until later on in my treatment. Anyway, the first medication was zoloft. I was on that for about a month and my life was absolute hell. Anger, racing thoughts, impulsive-ness, suicidality, the works... I went of medication for 2 months or so (which wasn't fun at all) and then was put on topamax. Ha, that one was interesting. It caused me to swing from major depression to incredible mania (w/ psychosis; which is always a nice touch) and then back again. It was positive, I didn't binge once while on it, although I didn't eat much at all either - killed my appetite for anything (even water). That got to a dangerous point, and I was switched to pamelor. That was even worse than zoloft. In 2 days I was incredibly manic and almost overnight and I fell into this screwy mixed state (10x worse than zoloft experience). I went off of that, and was (finally) proposed the idea of having bipolar. No more ADs used alone, and was put on trileptal.
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