Posted by sc_girl on August 27, 2003, at 20:24:51
I was diagnosed Bipolar II a number of years ago. Since then I was on Luvox & Celexa and did fine for a while. Then what I thought was anxiety started kicking in and was debilitating. I was prescribed Klonopin which I took as needed. Things did not seem to be getting any better so I went to see the therapist at my pdoc's office for a few months and she diagnosed me as Bipolar.
The next time a saw my pdoc I told him about this and he said he had diagnosed me as Bipolar years ago. I asked him why then was I not on medication for Bipolar, just A/D's. He said because they seemed to be working (and sometime people who are bipolar can do ok on just A/D's until they get worse).
In the past I had been on lithium and depakote (both of which F'ed me up). So he put me on lamictal which I took for a month. Well, after a week of sleeping and barely going to work I stopped taking it. I couldn't function, it didn't help with anything but made me comatose.
So now I am back to the same thing, taking Luvox/Celexa and when I start having bad anxiety (or is it dysphoric hypomania? who knows) - I take some Klonopin so I feel less like I will lose my sh*t.I am going around in circles here and always wind up back in the same place. Despair, frustration, depression and anxiety with not much hope of improvement. I have used almost all my sick days at work, and hope by some miracle I improve, which is what (all) I feel I can hope for these days, God willing.
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