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Apr 19, 2014, 02:19 AM
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I came down with the flu today. I started the day feeling goog and being upbeat. Then I started to feel sh*tty, down, and anxious. I did not know what was going on until I figured out the mild depression was not it. It has been the flu. I rested a little took some aspirin, and an hour later I became more manic. I have been restless, not able to sit still, chattering up a 'blue streak' over a TV show. I cannot settle down even though I can feel like *****. My anger is easy to set off.
Does this happen frequently to others here? This seems to happen when I get sick.
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Apr 19, 2014, 06:29 AM
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Frustration leads to anger.....Anger leads to the darkside....
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Apr 19, 2014, 09:46 AM
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I don't get sick often enough to notice a pattern (knock on wood) but I do know one of my worst recent manic episodes happened while I had a cold, and I was taking over-the-counter cold medication. I read later that something in the medication, I think it was the cough suppressant, could exacerbate mania.
Then again, next time I had a cold I tried to get the same results (not recommended) and nothing happened.
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Apr 19, 2014, 11:13 AM
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I had the "crud" back in February, and it touched off a mixed episode that lasted much longer than the illness. It probably happened because I was up half the night coughing and wheezing and thus wasn't sleeping.
I seldom get physically sick, but when I do, it's a doozy. Sometimes it exacerbates my asthma to the point that I have to take prednisone, which makes me manic as hell, so I avoid the stuff like the plague. This time I really should've been on it, but I didn't want to deal with the consequences.....and ended up having a mood episode anyway. 
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Apr 19, 2014, 03:31 PM
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I prefer to be alone if I get sick, I snap at everyone.
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Apr 19, 2014, 06:22 PM
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I doped myself up and finally got some sleep.
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