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Originally Posted by CheshireCatGrin
Anyway. I started on sertraline as an anti-depressant because I did NOT disclose everything to my GP when I went to her for the depression. It was a HORRIBLE IDEA. I hadn't known until a day or so after starting the AD that it could send me right into a hypomanic state - which it did, within a few days of starting it. That was the start of May and it's the end of June and I'm only JUST somewhat getting out of it - my sleep habits in particular are still pretty effed up.
I've just started lamictal myself.
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Cheshire, let me know how the lamictal goes? How long does it take to start working? I am on a taper up...25mg x1 week then up from there, won't get to a full dose for a month.
Wellbutrin had the same effect on me as setraline on you but at the time I didn't realize it, I just thought I had a sudden, ridiculous amount of energy, required almost no sleep, and was basically bouncing off the walls. Everyone around me found it to be hilarious. I knew nothing about this kind of reaction in bipolar; I really just wanted to try another antidepressant but she refused and probably a good idea. I just want the lamictal to work. Did NOT like the idea of high dose seroquel. Did NOT like the idea of managing lithium with lab work.
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Originally Posted by kaliope
its pretty hard to accept a bipolar diagnosis. it took me years to do so. and even longer to finally get on meds. now, even though I resent the meds every time I take them, life has changed so significantly for the better on meds, I wish that I started them thirty years ago. Oh how different life would have been.
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Kaliope, I hope I feel the same way you do about your meds in the near future! Would love to see my life "turn around" as it were. Really there's nothing wrong with my life, I hold it all together pretty nicely to the average person. It's the inside stuff that gets me down. And up. And down...
I had a glimmer of "thank god, I think I just saved my own life today when I started this stuff..." this afternoon. It lasted about 30 seconds then I was back to "what the eff is wrong with you? Has therapy taught you NOTHING?"
It's a journey, I guess...