Bipolar Disorder Support Group
Bipolar disorder is not just a single disorder, but a category of mood disorders marked by periods of abnormally high energy and euphoria, often accompanied by bouts of clinical depression. This is the place to talk about your experience with bipolar disorder, learn from others' experiences, and find support.
can't find a med to work either they knock me out or i still get all my symptons, anxiety, depressionand manic eppisoedes. any advice
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You must be didligent and take responsibilty to a certain extent to learn what your options are and together with your Doctor get your dosages correct as well as your meds. Do you drink energy drinks or coffee? That stuff will blow almost any treatment out of the water. Can you sleep? If you arent sleeping well, that can mess everything up too.
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No one medication worked for me. I take a cocktail of 12 different pills throughout the day - 8 different medications. The cocktail is helping me do much better than I've ever done.
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hey ya'll I'm from Big Clifty KY {grayson co] how long are you taking meds before symtoms get bad I take Lamictial and serequel I take only 25mgs during the day when needed and up to 450mgs at nite with requip I seem tocycle certain times of year fall and summer so I probly have one coming up when I take my 25mgs up to 100 during day I do okay not too tired sometimes I have to knock myself out when cycles gets into big swing and in a couple days I ease off serequel to lower doses when episode starts to subside hope this helps at all
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since you live in KY are you by any chance going to commicunacare?
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I have been on meds since 1989 have tried them all have a great doc who believes bi-polar people should be in control of their meds if they know their cycles and understand their own set of illness they should take control of their own treatment he is with communicare whinch is a ky state run clinics with offices all over he state
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