Eh. Life goes on. Stay safe.

please excuse the typos hand shake back on lamictal

Big hug for you sweetie.... Are you seeing your pdoc??…..xo

Yeah those damn craft stores are a bi*** when your manic...I've got so many watercolor pencils, because of course you need 20 packs of the same 50 pencils....sucks to be manic and have 3 Michaels in a 5 mile radius of work and home....

Glad you're coming down, and at least you found a good deed to do with the cards. Looking for the positives....

Hope the Lamictal helps you all the way down soon...

Kat

Thanks for the support and the understanding comments It helps to have people who have the same experiences II feel better now I did not call the nurse practitioner because they cannot do much about it They cannot give me different meds because of they do not know if they will cause a reaction top it they do not kn ow what any meds will do so they keep me on the same meds Lamictal can cause me to have a major manic episode so I have to watch it carefully and any abnormal symptoms I tell they about they may lower the dose or keep it the way it is and not raise it any more

Like you, meds generally do not do much for me when a Manic Ep hits...normally its just me realizing that I'm in the middle of it, finding ways to start slowing my Hamster Wheel brain down and stopping all the "projects" or work or whatever 100 things I'm doing at the time. Interjecting calming things and routines, figuring out, "oh yeah, I do need to eat" and "sleep, haven't done that in a while".

I think for some of us it becomes a conscious thought process to work backwards out of the manic or hypomanic episode...once we've done them for so long and get used to the routine of it.

I don't really consider mine harmful like they were when I was younger....10 - 15 years ago Manic meant not sleeping for weeks, being out all hours of the night driving around restless, forgetting a child at school because some stupid thing would catch my eye somewhere else, or losing 30 lbs in 3 weeks from literally forgetting food existed....last really bad one was in 2008. Hadn't slept in a couple weeks, hadn't eaten, I'd been manic for weeks, I dropped 45lbs in a month, got so Hypoglycemic I started randomly passing out. Passed out in the car on the way home one day, ran head on into a outcropping of boulders on the opposite side of the road at 65mph....don't remember much. Know they had to cut the roof off the car with the jaws of life to get me out, because the engine was sitting in the front seat...that car had a lot of airbags in it. Spent a few days in the hospital and have a good 2 week blank spot in my memory from the concussion. I don't miss those Manic Eps.

Now when I'm Manic its more like the Engine got revved up, no sleep for a few days, very busy, I get lots of work done and work nonstop. Shop more than normal for things I can live with out, nothing major. I usually catch myself 3 or 4 days in and its usually triggered around my really busy times like Tax Season and December/end of the year. Its like as I get busier and my brain has to focus on multiple things getting done at once it just kicks into faster and faster gears and falls into manic overdrive. But its a much more laid back type of Manic than it used to be, that's for sure.

That is like me oldercper they have not been that bad and I am a rapid cycler and same days of the week so they do not develop into anything major get a lot done working now on clearing out junk in the apt which i made in past episodes and painting and printing up pics to do along with cutting with the cricut up most of the week lasts only a few days then i come down

It would have been nice if we could have time traveled back then, into the future and told ourselves it really did get better. "sigh"

You're right about that