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Bipolar medications

Are you concerned about bipolar medications?

Not all bipolar medications are created equal, and finding the right bipolar drugs for YOU may be a long and difficult journey.

Here at Bipolar-Lives.com we have had our own struggles with bipolar meds - we understand the challenges involved in finding - and fine-tuning - the bipolar disorder medications that are best for YOU.

Bipolar medications require expert prescribing skills and are essential if you really have bipolar disorder.

We have also taken the journey and understand how difficult it can be.

Don't worry - you are NOT alone!

Get the facts from someone who has tried just about all the bipolar drugs out there, and who understands the REAL impact of side effects, medical expenses, and the struggle to communicate with friends, family, and doctors.

Best bipolar disorder medication overview

Best Bipolar Drugs?

Bipolar disorder is characterized by mood swings.

Therefore, the best bipolar disorder medications are mood stabilizers.

Mood stabilizers are bipolar meds that regulate mood swings so that extremes of depression and mania no longer occur.

Many of the most prescribed bipolar meds today are NOT mood stabilizers.

Instead they address ONLY depression OR ONLY mania.

Some may even TRIGGER mania or depression.

The most challenging aspect can be finding the right bipolar drug for the current phase of the illness.

For example, there may be a difference between what meds are required for treating an acute mood episode, versus what is required for maintenance treatment.

Further, episodes of depression may require different treatment to episodes of mania. Often this is done through the use of "medication cocktails" - combinations of mood stabilizers with other bipolar approved medications such as certain antidepressants and/or anti-psychotics.

Lithium is the most researched of all bipolar disorder treatments. Research indicates it is best for prevention of mania - BUT lithium is now known to be a WEAK treatment for bipolar depression. (Important as usually we spend much more time in depression than in mania.)

On the other hand, Lamictal is VERY EFFECTIVE for the treatment of bipolar depression. Hence, a potentially effective maintenance treatment for someone with bipolar disorder and a depressive bent would be the Lamictal/Lithium combination.

In fact, the lithium/Lamictal combo is emerging as a new gold standard for controlling bipolar symptoms and bipolar behavior.

YOUR Bipolar Disorder Medications

Bipolar medications are often used in combination, for example lithium and Lamictal.

Use this section of the website to discover the truth about YOUR bipolar meds.

Learn the facts you need to discuss medication with your medical team and loved ones.

Discover the secrets to:

1. Managing side effects, especially WEIGHT GAIN by using the bipolar diet

2. Understanding the intricacies of medication combinations and how to adjust them according to whether you are stable, manic, or depressed, and

3. STABILIZING instead of over-sedating or over-stimulating.

We will be looking at:

1. Lithium bipolar treatment (the classic mood stabilizer)

2. Depakote use in bipolar disorder (mood stabilizer/anticonvulsant)

3. Abilify medication explained (an anti-psychotic)

4. Geodon medicine - effective or fashionable? (an anti-psychotic)

5. Lamictal Bipolar Treatment (an anticonvulsant)

6. Seroquel medication (an atypical anti-psychotic)

7. Trileptal (anticonvulsant)

8. Topamax bipolar disorder treatment (an anticonvulsant)

9. The benefits of Wellbutrin (an antidepressant)

10. Zyprexa medication (an atypical anti-psychotic).

And remember: bipolar medication is NOT the be all and end all of bipolar treatment options:

See user reviews and anecdotal assessments of bipolar disorder medication

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