Thanks Sunrise. I am afraid my internist will say that she won't prescribe me meds for bipolar. She has prescribed me 2 antidepressants in the past.
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Originally Posted by renie1022
you sound a lot like me. I am not sure where bipolar ends and emotional/psychological problems begin. It makes it very confusing for myself, T and Pdoc. I have thought for a long time that my pdoc thinks it is all my background and trauma issues but the drugs she prescribed were ones that I looked up and found to be for bipolar. It really confuses me whether she has made the diagnosis or not at this point. I was hypomanic last time I saw her and there was one exchange about bipolar when I asked if this hypomania meant I had bipolar, she responded with "yes, I see this as a progression of the mood disorder, that we talked about when I prescribed Latuda"...very frustrating session, I never remember talking about it when she prescribed Latuda.
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Yes-I saw your thread Renie and started to reply, then realized I had nothing useful to say.
I have forgotten entire sessions too but it was from total dissociation.
Every time I see people with bipolar and other diagnoses in their signature, there are lists of medications that follow.
My BP symptoms are limited to hypomania too. I also have OCD, GAD, PTSD, dissociation, depersonalization, borderline traits, dysthymia and more if I think hard. It seems everyone who has multiple issues like this takes bipolar I meds. Maybe I've been in denial about this. I already have cognitive problems and health conditions and am worried about taking a psychiatric mixture.
I've also had allergic reactions to half of the meds I've tried in the past. ADD medications have been the most helpful over the years, and I never even had ADD as a child.
I don't think my internist would prescribe ADD meds. They are really conservative with those types of meds where I live. I feel like i'm treated as a suspected drug-seeker just asking for Ambien to help me sleep.