I was going to an office that had an APRN to prescribe meds. I was on trileptal, buspar, and xanax prn for about 8-9 months. I needed something else for the moods, the buspar made me so dizzy I would almost pass out. APRN wouldn't listen to me and change my meds. I stopped taking the buspar but stuck with the trileptal (600 mg a day). My therapist at this place was an intern. I hated her. So I quit going to that place, they wouldn't let me continue my meds with them, that was this past October. The only reason I stayed with her was so I could keep with the meds.

I went to see my normal doctor, she felt uncomfortable prescribing me bipolar meds and recommended me to my new office. I'm on state insurance, which limits where I can go, hence why I stuck with my original office, it's difficult to find a place that will take you in CT in a reasonable amount of time.

Well, I started at the new office in early January, but they couldn't schedule me to see their psychiatrist until the end of this month, which is a bummer. It was the only opening they had. I really like my new therapist and am seeing her weekly, we've been working really hard on minimizing my symptoms but they are still too much for me to deal with at times. I am rapid cycling. I'm getting insurance from my new job so maybe it'll open opportunities to find another pdoc in my area but stick with my therapist at that office.