I felt like that for a while, until I found a drug that works...lithium has saved my life.

I went through 5 pdocs until I found the right one...someone who wasn't in it just for the money.

Keep looking, real help is out there.

You'd think so. "Let's try this combined with this" and so on is all I've heard for years. And then they wonder why I'm crazy. Go figure1

We could start using the local psychics or witch doctors. Might be fun?

Just don't ask me to join a cult.

Same for me as gimmechoc. Lithium has been a wonder drug. My pdoc as well knew I was uninsured didn't push all the new expensive drugs. I had all them before. Lithium has always been the #1 choice for BP. The friggin drug companys push so much crap and alot of the pdocs are there fot the ride. They get lots of perks for prescribing new drugs. I'm sorry Hunny hold on and keep trying.

I know. I may be allergic to the second meds they are putting me on. Sucks. But it's called practicing medicine, not performing medicine. We are definitely lab rats.

I firmly believe that if your pdoc has prescribed new and expensive drugs... and you've been on more than two or three you've got to get an evaluation from a state doctor. The reason is pdocs work on a commission from the drug companies. State doc's don't. To get a non-skewed diagnosis... seek a state doc ... like mhmr or somewhere like that

Why do we need to be fixed? We aren't broken. We're just... special.

Gimme a helmet and bring out the short bus. I'm off my meds again!

I don't want fixed. That is what they do to pets. Ouch. I hurt for days when I trim and shave.

Don't want fixed either. Love being manic! Everyone else has a problem with it though... don't know why!
Last D I went to gave me a list of meds starting at the cheaper and going up and asked what i wanted to try! Good for a laugh!

I am off most of my meds but I take fish oil have a healthy diet and I seem to be doing "better"