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Originally Posted by Wild Coyote
Have you felt doubted? I hope not. 
Is the person who has done the testing the one saying meds don't seem necessary? Or is that your pdoc's opinion? Your opinion?
I am wondering if things might settle down for you and might feel more manageable if you tried a mood stabilizer?
I have a BPII diagnosis and for many, many years, I was diagnosed as treatment-resistant MDD. I never thought I would benefit from a mood stabilizer and my pdocs at the time never thought so. Yet, I have seen a different pdoc and she had immediately started a mood stabilizer and I still have some challenges, yet do much, much better than I was without the mood stabilizer.
It would be quite easy to try a mood stabilizer to see if it helps. Many of us use a med called "lamotrigine." It has its pros and cons; yet, I have found it one of the very easiest meds to take and I am incredibly sensitive to meds. We are all different, of course.
I have been reading your thread and have wondered if you just might feel more stability in mood with a mood stabilizer?
just a thought.  |
Just replied on the other thread but will say again. Looked up the definition of unspecified bipolar disorder and it says basically, not bipolar but has some experience with abnormally elevated moods.
To address this post, I actually was on Abilify for awhile but it didn't seem to do anything and was causing weight gain. I asked my pdoc to help take me off of it. Like I've said, depression is far more concerning for me than my highs. I mean the times of concern are if I cannot sleep and or I become too talkative/textative (lol) and say mean things (the irritability and impatience and extreme boredom). But that was only really really bad when I was also taking Intuniv for possible ADHD, which was just...i mean, I had to get off immediately. Was jittery and couldn't sleep and just felt icky.
So, I'm doing ok not on mood stabilizers right now. I'm just curious about all this and have noticed recently feeling "better"...so just trying to keep tabs.
Wait, what's "felt doubted?"