[Rennerenner]

Hey all, I just wanted to ask you about your hypomanic symptoms when you are on medication. Have you been hypomanic on meds? What did it feel like? Did it feel at all stunted from your hypomania without meds? Have you felt yourself climbing only to have it disappear and go nowhere?

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[BipolaRNurse]

I've been either manic, hypomanic, or on the edge of it all summer, even with four different medications. It's definitely muted, but I can feel it simmering underneath the protective layer of the meds.

It'll be interesting to see if my winter depression is also diffused for the same reason. I'd just as soon skip that whole cluster-schtupp if I can.

[hamster-bamster]

I've been hypomanic on meds. I remember once crossing many streets as a pedestrian and ALWAYS being the first one to begin crossing (on green light). That is when I realized that my speed of reaction was higher than normal. And street signs had some special significance, looked not their usual self. It was fun.

My last hypomania was caused by a lapse in taking lithium (I ran out and had to wait for mail order). Geodon, which I continued to take faithfully, was not enough to keep me from getting elevated. That hypomania only lasted a few days and I caught myself.

[Travelinglady]

Yes, I have had some hypomania while on meds, but, yet, I'm Bipolar II, so I don't have extreme mania anyway. I have started cleaning and wouldn't be able to quit (now that came in handy), talked to everybody I encountered and couldn't shut up, laughed and just felt really good. Come to think of it, I could use a bit of that now, since I am feeling down due to health problems.

[BipolaRNurse]

Don't you just hate having to tamp down the hypomania?? I got hypo a couple of weeks ago when I tried to come off Zyprexa---flipped right into it when I didn't take the med for two days---and I got SO many things accomplished. But, I was a good patient (for a change) and called my pdoc to report the symptoms, and of course going back on Zyprexa straightened me out pretty quickly.

But.....I'm still just a wee bit hypo, and it's really hard when I'm feeling great and have all this energy to realize that this isn't quite normal for me. Then I'll remember that the winter downturn will come all too soon, and I'll yearn for days like today when I feel like I can conquer the universe!

[Rennerenner]

Thanks for sharing everyone!

I was just asking as I've been on meds for the first time for about a month now, and have had several times where I've started to feel like I was climbing, but then it kind of went away. It felt like it was bubbling underneath, but not ever really going anywhere. This has happened twice, and after it went away I fell into a deep suicidal depression for a couple days.

I've also been having really restless legs at night and when I wake up. I can't tell if this is jitters from hypomania, or just a side effect from the meds. I'm on prozac and lamictal.

Prozac is supposed to have adverse sexual side effects, but there have been times where I woke up at 1AM hypersexual and alert, however I didn't feel the euphoric sensation nearly as strongly as when I wasn't on meds. I wonder if this was hypomania as well. I'm still figuring this stuff out.

[hamster-bamster]

You might be in for a pleasant surprise - Prozac gave me positive sexual side effects in that it enabled me to experience touchless spontaneous orgasms from mere thoughts (fantasizing) just as I did prior to taking Risperdal/Geodon. I still cannot experience regular clitoral orgasms, but it is much better to have at least one kind of orgasm available to you, right? And I now that my thought-induced orgasms are a rather rare occurrence, so I was overjoyed to welcome them back into my life after three years of a dry spell.

[BipolaRNurse]

We all are still figuring this 'stuff' out, Rennerenner. Sometimes when I think I'm about to make ends meet in the mental-health arena, @#$&!! bipolar moves the ends. But I guess that's what BP is, a shape-shifter that oozes in and out of our lives and manifests itself in endless guises.

Hoooo, boy......definitely still a little hypo, I don't usually come up with that many metaphorical descriptors in one sentence. Haha!