I actually have had minor BP symptoms since I was a kid (in retrospect) but after my first is when I was diagnosed. I waited until he was almost 2 to seek help from my family doc and it was pretty bad mixed symptoms at that point. She tried me on prozac which had worked for me before, but it just made me crazier so she put me on lamictal and sent me to a pdoc asap. Pdoc says bp symptoms for women tend to be exacerbated by hormone changes, and some women are more sensitive to it than others. My whole family has always gone a little crazy with "PMS" so I guess we are some of the unlucky ones.

I always wonder, if I didn't have kids, if I ever would have been diagnosed or if it ever would have gotten this bad. Though I don't think I would trade my children for avoiding this illness

I'm sorry you had a similar experience. Kids are great but hormones are a *****.