Posted by Mitch on July 13, 2001, at 13:08:59
In reply to Re: Zo's pdoc answers the question, posted by Zo on July 13, 2001, at 1:41:16
Hi, Zo,
Well, welcome to the BPII crowd! The reduced sleep test is the best one for hypomania. The atypical AP's have good antidepressant effects. I have tried Risperdal and Seroquel. The risperdal gave me dystonias though-had to stop it. The Seroquel would knock me out at nite real good-but ONE thing I ntoiced that was really neat-when it WORE OFF about 12-16 hrs. later-just before I would go to bed (and take my tiny bedtime dose for sleep) I had the most incredible ability to FOCUS and pay attention to things-it was really wonderful. There is some sort of anti-ADHD effect it has-can't put my finger on it.
Oh, the fish oil stuff-yep I tried it and I have got GERD and it was pretty nasty-BUT I have heard somewhere you can get some specially coated tabs or something that doesn't give you that.
Mitch
> Well. What I learned today: that my pdoc has considered me Bipolar II for a long time. . .we just kind of got distracted what with my TLE being revealed this year, and with some RL issues.
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> But he also says the high I got from Zyprexa was almost surely NOT hypomania, because mania of any degree is marked first and foremost by a reduction in sleep.
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> His first line of treatment for me, at this point, is - you may have read about this discovery - an omega-3 supplement called OmegaBrite, avail. only from their website, omegabrite.com. For omega-3 to work on bipolar, there must be a 2 to 1 ratio of EPA to DHA - apparently hard to find.
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> For anyone interested, the dosing is:
> 4caps 2x daily for the first week
> 5 caps " " for the second
> 6 caps " " for the third.
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> Benefit normally appears between weeks 2 and 3; the efffective dose range is btwn 2.5 and 6 grams of *EPA* daily.
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> I'll be starting as soon as it arrives. He says about 6 out of 10 of his patients get good effect from this; the others feel nothing. And the neat thing is, no downside!
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> Thanks for all the great feedback!
> Zo
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