Hi, I was diagnosed just 1 month ago after having a manic episode triggered by Prozac. I had been on other antidepressants for years and think they made me hypo manic the whole time, but I thought that's the reaction I was supposed to get. Certainly brought me out of the depression.
5 days after starting Prozac I had my husband drive me to the hospital in full manic mode, with audio hallucinations having not slept for 3 days, scared to death.
I have been on geodon 2x per day since. Can't take the side effects so switching to 400 mgs of seroquel and after 1 week of that adding tegretol.
I am a mom of 3 boys aged 2-13, I work full time.
This is my question, I am still cycling up and down. My pdoc says taking antidepressants (prior to all this occurring) has caused the major cycling and that I will never be able to take antidepressants again. I will just have to deal with the depression, which can be very bad. Is this common? How do people with bipolar handle the depression part of it?
She also said that anti depressants were so bad for bipolar sometimes it can mimic or trigger disassociative disorder.
This is all very overwhelming and hard to handle.