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Re: Starlight--Same problem! » fluffy

Posted by katia on June 18, 2003, at 14:23:22

In reply to Starlight--Same problem!, posted by fluffy on June 18, 2003, at 12:00:53

> > Hi All,
> > I ended up having to take a couple of klonopin's for back pain, and that sent me spiraling down, ick! So then he upped my dose of lamictal to 200mgs. So far the only thing I've experienced thusfar has been nausea. I'm a bit tired, but that's from staying up too late. I do feel a bit better, but would love to find just one drug that did the trick! Yesterday the nausea was really bad. He thought that rather than the klonopin affecting me, that it was just my regular mood swing. I find that I swing moods alot more - I can be depressed over a long period, but am beginning to think that I swing as frequently as once or twice every two weeks or so. I can go from having loads of energy and a cheerful outlook to wanting to throw myself in front of a truck overnight. Anyone else like that?
> > starlight
>
>
> Hey Starlight--
>
> You read my mind. I was thinking about this the other day. I never noticed before that I was a "rapid cycler" until recently. I have had seasonal bouts of anxiety and depression that I could trace over the past 3 years or so. (I'm 29 now.) But I never noticed that my mood would undulate from week to week until the past 4-5 months. (after having taken SSRI's for 2 years and then stopping)
>
> I wonder if hormones come into play? I have an IUD (with hormones) that I got for birth control--and I notice that I have had swings more often. Or maybe because I'm keeping a hawk's eye out on my mood changes now (with being AWARE that I'm bipolar, and testing new meds)
>
> I also have had prolonged periods of depression--and I didn't notice any "rapid cycling". But as of late....
>
> How is this possible? Am I a rapid cycler, or have I always been cyclothymic with bouts of major depression?
>
> I'm curious too.
> Katy

Ditto on the board. Yes, it's amazing what we discover about ourselves when we stay aware. I just had my appt. with a new pdoc. I've been taking ADs all year thinking I just (not that that's not enough) had depression; but nothing worked,etc. (see previous posts). My new pdoc seems to also think that I'm falling in the bipolar spectrum - somewhere around BPII and BPMixed. He also said that it's only recently in psychiatry that this broad spectrum opened up so people were/are being misdiagnosed for anxiety or depression when in fact there's more to BP than BPI (classic manic depression).
He's given me a very detailed mood chart that I have to fill out everyday for the next three weeks and he started me on 25mg Seroquel cut in halves/quarter/thirds (whatever ends up after my lovely pill cutter) for sleep. So far I'm sleeping a lot but I feel so groggy in the morning. I'm staying on the 50mg Serzone for now b/c he wants to do one thing at a time.
Mood swings are so hard to track because when you're in a low or high; it feels as though it's normal and this is always how it's been. AND for me it's normally mixed; so it's not so clear cut. It's also hard to find language to describe the subtlties of these feelings that I took for so long as "just me".
katia


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