Hi there.. For years (since before I can remember...) I have been told if she'd only apply her self, if she'd only sit still, go to bed earlier (so that I would stop yawning and sleeping..) If only.. Then I joined the Military. I started sleeping from watch to watch (12 hours or more) and even most of my breaks (48 hours) with the urge to sleep at work too. Well at some point I developed an ability to sleep when not at work or doing something with my friends. Was constantly tired and even with my friends wasn't alway's in a "great" mood. No drinking (gads I hated that feeling of lost control..) fix, no drugs.. they finally sent me to a Dr. who said I was depressed and put me on prozac. I got pregnate about a year later with medium results from the medication. After the pregnacy things were semi normail. Not nearly as tired and feeling pretty decent for a change wow!! two years later boom. I feel like crap (actually after my second son) and am tired all the time and really cranky and moody. Now being Military I am at a totally different Dr. who thought maybe it was post partum blues, but couldn't expalin why every thing seemed confused and jumbled up. So. Now anotehr Dr in Hawaii now. We went to see him for my son's ADD. Now he wants to know why I am not being treated for Bi-Polar/ADD (DUH! Cause no one brought it up before maybe??) as well as him. Now, he put me on Depakote, Trileptal and carnitor. I for the first time ever went to sleep at a normal time, woke up after 8ish hours of sleep and didn't want to scoop sugar out of the bowl and eat it. Of course I couldn't make a decission, choose to do something and don't have any idea what I did all day. I got a bit of a hand shake too. So when we retired to WA I of course gentley weaned myself off the pills (which reads cold turkey) cause I was rather ignorant.. After a year I started feeling depressed again and angery at everyone. New Dr say's yeap bi-polar try something and then maybe this something. T hen this something that made me sleepall day every day and I made my kids late for school frequently because I couldn't wake up. Now. I read about ADD in nother book I found and to me I sit there going "WOW other people feel like this, act like this ,do stupid things going what one earth was I thinking..." I didn't know that ADD people could be depressed, angery or any of the above. I got on wellbutrin for awhile and it was really great. I liked sex, was getting things done around the house, thought it was great to be alive... THEN>>> I hated everyone for no reason suddenly in the middle of a great mood. So no more Wellbutrin. Does anyone else have "bi-polar and ADD" What exactly makes them different? How to do they treat one and the other considering supposedly ADD meds make the Bi-Polar swings faster and faster, but the Bi-Polar meds can aggrevate the ADD. Am I finding quacks? How do I find a Dr I feel comfortable with and that I think knows enough about these two problems to treat them? The one I found I really am not that comfortable with in some ways..
Arlene