[Slick399]

I know I am in the midst of a bipolar cycle but am having a difficult time trying to figure out if my symptoms are part of a hypomanic episode. I am not right today and that is precisely why I have medicated myself with the seroquel because it knocks the craziness and bad thoughts out of my head. My memory is wiped out going back a week or so, I feel like I am having a jagged edge kind of sensation where I am not feeling complete. I know I have drifted out of the safe zone of where the lithium usually keeps me and have wandered into the land of out of control feelings. I can sort-of trace this back a week or so and see when I started to have the decline and fragment off into little pieces or so it seems.

Can anyone relate to what I am saying?

[JourneyUpward]

Hi Slick,

From your description it sounds very much like what I sometimes go through. I'll feel the energy of hypomania but the feelings are not happy. I can feel angry, even irate sometimes, uneasy, want to climb the walls, like some part of me is lost somewhere. I can go on but you get the picture. It rarely happens the same exact way each time.

I also take lithium and seroquel. My doc also threw lamictal into the mix. It seems to be helping to level me out a bit. Unless your doc recommended it already, I recommend that you ask your doc about taking extra seroquel and ask what he recommends you do or take. The extra seroquel, unless prescribed, could play additional havoc with your mood state.

Keep me & all of us posted. I'm concerned and truly hope you find relief soon.
JourneyUpward

[Slick399]

Dear Journey Upward,

Thank you for your reply. I appreciate it. It is good to know that you can relate and have had similar experience. Not that I wish it on you but it helps to know that others have felt the same way. I will check with my doctor about additional seroquel. Thanks, again!

Slick