I'm here.
Still off psych meds. Been a fairly smooth ride lately, considering how things have been going for the last 2 years.
Mostly just keeping bipolar symptoms under close watch. Mood chart was a straight line normal for 2 weeks, then I saw a Dr for a spider bite (going bad) and to deal with the shoulder pain I have been struggling with for the last 6 months. He gave me an injection of Celestone Soluspan - a corticosteroid to relieve inflammation. He warned me to watch for reactions given my bipolar history.
Nothing happened, except it hurt like crazy. But the next day, I found myself in a strongly mixed state. Pressured driving, agitation when fetching kids from school, horrible impatience with other people, feeling like the world was out to get me. Suicidal ideation flashed by regularly and had to be firmly fought with to keep it at bay. By the time I got home I was so depressed I could hardly read or do any work. I felt numb. Then by evening it began to lift. Now 1.5 days after the jab, I have just been to gym (only 15 mins to work on my shoulders and light cardio) and now I feel like I am cooling down slowly from a hypomanic high.
Guess I am just extremely sensitive to substances in my body....