Louisiana1976

Open Hypothyroidism

I'm also being treated for bipolar disorder (with mostly depression and on Monday Mar. 17th found out that my bloodwork showed I've low thyroid. So that Tues. I started on Levothyroxine.

Treatments

Synthroid Too Soon to Tell

Open Anxiety

I have bipolar (mainly depression) but also suffer from anxiety. Mainly social, but if there's anything I can worry about, I will.

Treatments

Meditation Working / Worked

I mentioned to my counselor that this doesn't always happen, but I seem to be sleeping better. She replied that it's supposed to do that.

Reading Working / Worked

Escape and entertainment

Open Arthritis

About 3 weeks ag I was changing my clothes and felt a pop in my right knee, following by excruciating pain. The "excruciating" subsided, but since then the knee has hurt on and off, and to varying degrees with no rhyme or reason to it. I had x-rays last Monday and just found out today that they show mild osteo-arthritic changes in that knee.

Treatments

Naproxen Working / Worked

So far--hasn't seemed to work very well.

Open Rape

I was raped when I was 21 in 1979. At that time I was studying in Latin America and I didn't get the emotional support I should have, not just from people at the school I was attending but from my mother.

Treatments

Talking Somewhat Helpful

Actually by "talking" I mean venting in blogs. It seems to help.

Open Multiple Personalities

I've never formally been diagnosed with DID, but suspect I've a mild case. Ever since I was a kid I've been told I'd done things or that I hadn't done things I'd didn't remember being told to do. I also have bipolar and other probs.

Treatments

Reading Working / Worked

Escape and entertainment

Open Fibromyalgia

I was diagnose with fibro at a rheumatologist's appointment because of the pain I've been having.

Treatments

Cymbalta Considering

Plan to ask p-doc if can replace Lexapro w/Cymbalta at dr.'s request

Neurontin Too Soon to Tell

Open ADHD / ADD

Back when I was a kid in the Dark Ages of the 60's I was diagnosed and treated for what people called back then "a learning disability" but I now know is ADHD. When I was about 14 my doctor said I'd "outgrown" this condition and took me off meds but I still have symptoms as an adult. Currently I'm not being treated for ADHD per se, but for other issues.

Treatments

Ritalin Not Working

Didn't work so doctor switched me to Dilantin and phenobarbital

Dilantin Somewhat Helpful

I took this until I was 14 or so after which the doctor had felt that Id outgrown my learning disability

Phenobarbital Somewhat Helpful

I took this until I was 14 or so after which the doctor felt that Id outgrown my learning disability

Open Sleep Apnea

Just diagnosed with severe sleep apnea after sleep study.

Treatments

CPAP Too Soon to Tell

Open Menopause

Going through menopause

Open Loneliness

Loneliness at times

Open Physical & Emotional Abuse

Emotional abuse esp. by my mother when I was younger

Treatments

Psychotherapy Working / Worked