Hello everyone- I have come here to "talk" to others about the sometimes daily issues that having bipolar issues brings. I will try to be active here but I never want to promise anything because some days I just can't do anything at all. Sometimes because I am isolating, sometimes because I'm just so tired.
I am 42 but was just diagnosed as Bipolar II a little over a year ago. Went into an intensive outpatient program at a local hospital for what I know now was a mixed episode. Doc diagnosed me fairly quickly so like many, I doubted the diagnosis. Also bucked it because my mother is bipolar (very severely so) and swore I'd never be like her. Didn't want to accept it. Some days I still don't.
I am extremely sensitive to meds and it has been med hell. Severely allergic to lamictal, neurontin, and Geodon especially. Geodon put me in the hospital for the first time. Taken several meds that either didn't have any effect at all or the opposite effect. Sometimes they just stop working. Spent 6 days in the hospital recently for that. *sigh*
My current cocktail is: AM: 600mg Trileptal, 50mg Cymbalta PM: 600mg Trileptal, 5mg Zyprexa, Ambien, Klonipin as needed. Zyprexa is the newest addition and I HATE it because it makes me eat like a horse and gain weight. Ugh.
Hope to get to know some of you. Thanks for reading.