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.
Does anyone else's mood tank when they've had surgery and start taking pain meds (opioids)? I feel just plain awful and in pain b/c I'm sure the pain meds are at the root of the problem. I'm afraid to take too much, too little, too often ... but this pain is unbearable. What if surgeons could put us in partial and temporary comas whilst our bodies heal? Yeah, I'd like that. 5 days in a coma. No pain meds, no mood fluctuations, no time worrying about how quickly (or not) I'm healing....just food for thought.
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Hello everyone IAM back in the mental health unit at hospital I've been sectioned under the mental health act for my own safety my daughter as been taken into care
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Mom and I have errands to run this morning. She said we can get sushi for lunch though. I go back to work today. What are you looking forward to this weekend?
I am in constant chronic and high pain. I always hate pain meds, and did not take them when my RA meds were working. But they have not been for 2 years. I am on Nycunta twice daily. It is not helping, but I need to wean, and I am not into doing that when the pain is bad. I was taking a lot of morphine for a while, but I backed off and basically got off of it when my meds were working better. Which was short lived. So back to the morphine, hating myself each time I take it, but being glad it still gives me relief.
I broke my elbow and dislocated my knee in 2012 in a bicycle accident (I got hit by a car). I was given morphine for that, and again in 2014 when I got thrown from my bicycle into a ditch (my fault that time!) and broke my wrist. I took one and it made me so sick I just suffered it out with the Tramadol. But when I had an unbearable flare in my knee Feb 2015, and had to go to the hospital in an ambulance, I took the cursed morphine. I still got sick but the pain was much less.
Then my RA meds totally failed. I was more concerned with not taking prednisone and started taking the morphine for the flares which left me bed-ridden. Turns out, I needed both, and still do! As for mood, who won't feel bad when they are in pain? Don't discount that this could be a real response to the pain!
Anyway, probably TMI, I hope you feel better soon, and don't discount the effect of a general anaesthetic!