New Home in New State, New Pdoc & New Diagnosis!

Hi all.  I've been packing and preparing for the big move from NY to Florida.  Finally arrived on March 1st (2009).  It's almost a month that we've been here now--Love It! And the stress of the move has taken its toll and I'm cycling again.  Found a new Pdoc.  Gave him all the reports from the 1st Psych Evaluation  and the final report from my former Pdoc in NY.   After 2 hours with him in my initial interview, he gave me a new diagnosis!  It's NOT cyclothymia & major depression after all.  The NEW diagnosis in Bipolar NOS!  He put me on Lithium and wants to slowly wean me off the other meds (seroquel, cymbalta and lamictal). What a shock!  Although the meds my old pdoc had me on slowed the cycles and finally reduced the intensity of the swings, the stress of the move started them again.  Then to find out I've been treated with the wrong meds for the wrong things is a shock.   Also a shock is that all 5 docs who worked with me trying to find out what was wrong, all ran batteries of tests on me looking for something neurological or epilepsy.  They found nothing.  This new Pdoc saw the reports and was upset.  He said clearly something neurological is going on and epilepsy, Petite Mal, appears to be fairly clearly the dx.  He says it is very difficult to catch the activity on the ECGs because they happen so sporadically.  He said that is why they can't be the definitive tool to rule out some type of epileptic dx.  So, in addition to bipolar NOS, I seem to also have epilepsy--or at least some definite neuological activity going on.  He leans towards epilepsy.  So, now I have two upsetting dx's to deal with once again, which I don't fully understand . So, I've got my homework cut out for me again--research, research, research.  Gee.  This new Pdoc is an expert in the field of mood disorders, bipolar and substance abuse.  He is a lecturer at the University and speaks at conferences.  He has been voted top doc by his peers.  I found him to be kind, attentive, thorough and quick to pick up on the slightest symptoms or details in behavior or in conversation.  He is very willing to hear my opinion and have discussion on equal ground.  If you want to learn to understand your condition, he is more than willing to teach you all he can.  He considers family members crucial to the process and invites them to share in the sessions if the patient is willing.   I have another appointment on April 3rd and I'm looking forward to it.  I want to see what else he's going to come up with--what kind of things we'll discuss.  He'll look at my mood charts and we'll see what he thinks.