A 25-year-old female asked about a 27-year-old female:
Which a drugs do u prescribe for bipolar with equal mania and depression?
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Dr. Joyce Pastoreanswered
Internal Medicine 31 years experience
Bipolar disorder: There are many types of medications used to treat bipolar disorder with both symptoms of mania and depression. The treatment should be tailored to the patient's constellation of symptoms. Lithium, antipsychotics, and benzodiazepines are among the medications used.
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A Verified Doctoranswered
Family Medicine 35 years experience
Mood stabilizers: Mood stabilizers first such as
antiepileptics like topamax, lamictal, divalproex,
litium with careful monitoring
or atypical antipsychotics such as abilify, resperdal, seroquel, zyprexa, clozaril, or geodon
or more recently Safris, Latuda, (lurasidone) Fanapt, Invega
They may need an atypical antipsychotic plus an antiepileptic at first if manic. Then the mood stabilizer can be augmented with antidepres
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