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Originally Posted by Wild Coyote
I have been experiencing ongoing agitation, irritability and insomnia.
I saw my pdoc and we were going to use Seroquel, which tends to help quickly.
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Today I am unable to tolerate noise. The quietest noises are WAY TOO LOUD!  I have had to ask people to whisper when talking to me. It's best if I isolate because I am jumping and cringing with the slightest sound. Even my laptop keyboard noise is FAR TOO MUCH NOISE!
Does anyone else experience extreme noise sensitivity when going through a period of agitation?
Does this sound like agitation which can go along with Bipolar illness?
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Originally Posted by yellow_fleurs
Yes the noise sensitivity got intense for me when I was very agitated, although I am not one to say if it goes with bipolar since not sure what's going on with me. I also experienced light and touch sensitivity. I found myself with my jacket over my head, plugging my ears and closing my eyes, curled up in the car once when driving with my boyfriend during one of these phases. He thought the music was too loud, didn't have the heart to tell him his voice was aggravating and also felt like he was screaming in my ears haha...
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Originally Posted by cln1812
I get overstimulated easily. I've had that all my life. Especially to noise and crowds, though I could stand a lot more in the way of noise than my daughter can. I still don't like noise and/or crowds. However, I have a father I'm 99% sure is on the autism spectrum with Aspergers. My daughter has sensory processing disorder (makes parentlng a challenge, every sense of hers is affected). Anything & everything with the potential to overstimulate her senses, and she is out of sorts.
I remember absolutely hating the noise of the school cafeteria when I was in middle & high school. In high school, where we had a little more choice in where we ate our lunch, I'd often choose to eat outside, even when it was extremely hot or cold (well, at least to someone used to living near Houston).
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Man, does this all sound so familiar? All of these examples we've seen in our son. Sensitivities to heat, cold, sounds, someone singing in the car, cafeteria noises, He isn't dx'd with Bipolar (though I could swear...) but with PDD-NOS.
Put him on Seroquel after switching him from Abilify, but from what we're seeing, its only made the irritation much worse, he says so himself. (I'd a rather long post on the medications forum on all of this, seems to have disappeared, somehow)
Anyroad - does it sound like agitation that goes along with BP illness? If this thread warn't specifically in the BP section, I'd of said it irritation symptomatic of the AS.
