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Originally Posted by hamster-bamster
You did the right thing by catching your symptoms early and suppressing them with Z. My only suggestion, given how quickly 5 mg worked, is to get a prescription for 2.5 mg Zyprexa, and, next time something like this happens, try 2.5 mg, wait for 1/2 hr, and if you feel you still need more, take another 2.5 mg. Or use a pill cutter.
I would say that you had acute mania with the impulse to drive recklessly. I have never had it and would have been scared to find myself desiring to be a reckless driver. So in my book it would have been acute mania, and not a hypo episode.
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Interesting. Thank you for your feedback. I was agitated and driving recklessly, like there were "ants in my pants", racing and intrusive thoughts while I drove. I am lucky that my "autopilot" was enough to get me home without an accident. The more this stuff happens to me, the more I am learning about this disease. Your suggestion for 2.5 mg doses PRN sounds like a vey good idea to me.
(I think I will change my mood to happy now.)
