It looks like stopping my tegretol until talking with my pdoc was a good choice. I talked with him today and he said me feeling so much worse, with the symptoms I had, on the same day I upped my tegretol was probably a result of the tegretol. I only made it on that med 4.5 days....He said it is possble, but probably not likely, that risperidone is causing my low blood pressure. While my symptoms don't perfectly match, he agrees with my primary care that my symptoms do sound somewhat like POTS-I don't know that they fit the bill enough for this though. I will be willing to get this looked into if, after audiology/ent in a couple of weeks, looking into something like POTS seems like the logical next step.

If I want to test the risperidone/blood pressure possibility, he said I can try going back to .5 mg for a few days to see what happens. We talked about the risk with this though because my mood already isn't stable. Based on today, the rapid cycling is about to kick in full force again. Or, at least some mixed episodes. I don't really feel like I have a choice though if I want to try to truly figure out what is going on with my health. So, I'm going to take .5 mg tonight, Saturday night, and maybe Sunday night to see what happens.

I'm hoping my depression symptoms/unhappy thoughts don't get to bad this weekend. I no longer have anything to fill my time, or people to spend it with so, since I don't have the physical health to go do anything on my own, it really is just me and my thoughts until I go back to work on Tuesday.

To end on a positive note, I saw two students while out and about after school today. They both seemed happy to see me-this was a wonderful little boost to my mood!