ivybelle
Status: everything keeps catching on fire and I can't put one out before another pops up! Feeling stressed.
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- Hey all. I've been diagnosed with bipolar I now for several years but nothing is really improving. Several times in the hospital, people have tried to label me with borderline (and while I have nothing against that diagnosis, it does not fit me)....
- So many things have been going wrong. I feel like all I do is run around and put out fires. Last summer, I spent a month inpatient trying to get my meds sorted out which never really happened successfully. Then, I started getting very sick. I've...
- Hey all. Sorry I've been MIA. Lots of ugly health fun. Anyway, my pdoc started me on Rexulti last week (it looked like it really was just an Abilify patent extender, but I am starting to wonder). She is a very good pdoc, and very smart, but it is...
- I got out of the hosp last Monday after an almost 2 week stay. After I got out, the news meds they changed me to made me have heart palpitations. I went off of it for three days and tried to get a hold of my outpatient provider. She started me on...
- Anyone experience this? I was in the hosp when they put me on it last week and I had some other wicked side effects. Most of those have faded. Finally got home, but I'm noticing after I take it, my pulse drops and my heart is just thumping. Went to...
- I am on a wicked combo of anti-psychs, mood stabilizers, and others. If it helps people, I will list them, but it is a lengthy list. My pdoc is trying to drop some of them a little at a time, but we haven't done that in a while because things have...
- Hi everyone! Sorry it's been a while since I've been here. Lots of family things happening so I haven't really had time for much. Forgive me.So just in the past, I'd say, two weeks or so, I have slowly started running around like a chicken with...
- Went to a new medical doctor today for a check up and the receptionist was ridiculous. I let her know that I was early because the nurse may need some extra time to enter my medications because I have so many between the psych, migraine, and blood...
- I had pneumonia a couple of weeks back and I let the doc put me on prednisone along w an antibiotic. I have been off those meds for ten days and I have taken a major tailspin. I've had prednisone make me manic before, but I've never experienced...
- ...at a concert. At least I think it was her. I'm not a hundred percent it was her, and of course she couldn't acknowledge me, and I ran away as fast as I could. Things didn't end as smoothly as they could have and I was embarrassed. I even left the...
- I have tried nearly every mood stabilizer, anti psychotic and anti-depressant out there. We discovered early that the anti-depressants were very bad for me, but the others we have tried in multiple combinations. My pdoc has not said I am treatment...
- I haven't posted in a while but I have a question. Has anyone else had issues with mild paranoia? For example, if I am left at home by myself after dark, I get really concerned that someone is going to break in or sometimes I get a really strong...
- So I thought I'd experienced all the different forms of mania but unfortunately this is a new one. My pdoc says I'm hypo because of some key indicators that have been common to this state in the past (sleep, sociability, etc.) but I am super easy to...
- Has anyone else had lithium keep them awake, have broken sleep or make them wake up really early? Or all three? I've been on lithium for almost three weeks now and I've noticed that ever since I went on it, my sleep is troublesome. I used to be a...
- I just got out of the hospital last week and they had mentioned ECT as an option there. The finally got me so I'm not suicidal, but I'm still moderately depressed. The depression is wearing though and I don't know how long I can bear the weight of...