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Jun 16, 2014, 01:25 PM
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This is my emotional life lately. My Pdoc says I am having a mixed episode. I am often hypomanic in the evening, and some other times, and I am mostly depressed during the day.
I have been feeling hypomanic for at least a week. This morning I woke up in a depression and it has lingered all day... Crash, but who knows? In this mixed episode I could be flying again by this evening! I am getting tired of the roller coaster, I want to get off! Fly and crash.
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Jun 16, 2014, 01:27 PM
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I just don't want to feel emotions, if this is how it is! It's just too unstable, and I am too sensitive!
My Pdoc is confident in the Lamictal and is telling me to be patient, but my patience is wearing thin!
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#3
Jun 16, 2014, 01:35 PM
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hmm...so mixed is like one day being depressed and hypo the next? or even with in the same day? hmm...
Is it weird for hypo to go up and down through out the day over a few days -- I shouldn't say it goes up or down...it's like it's always there...but these bursts of hypo burst through my defenses....does that make sense? I'm pulling for ya though dude! |
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Jun 16, 2014, 01:44 PM
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I have also been diagnosed with a mixed episode. I start out depressed and then through out the day I go into a hypomanic stage. I can feel it build over the day and then I can't sleep at night. The feeling is horrible inside. I feel like electricity is running thru my body, but on the other hand I am depressed. Recently I went from a manic stage then stable and then into a depression for a few weeks now. I usually go thru the really bad depressed phases for about 3 days, but this has lingered. I'm on short term medical leave right now because it has been so bad and I am having a hard time functioning.
Did you just start the Lamictal? Maybe you are not at the therapeutic dose yet if you are just starting. I'm not giving you medical advice but my doctor said for a mixed episode I need to be on a mood stabilizer and an antipsychotic. See below for the meds and dosages I currently take. The klonopin helps take off the edge that I have with the anxiety and helps with the sleep. I can relate to what you are feeling and it sucks so bad to be up and down and all around. For me it's not just mental, but also physical as well. I hope you feel better soon. BP 1-mixed episodes/OCD Lamictal 400 mg (mood stabilizer) Latuda 80 mg (antipsychotic) Klonopin 1.5 mg |
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Jun 16, 2014, 01:54 PM
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I had a month long mixed episode after I left the hospital the last time...shouldn't have left so soon. Anyway personal stress and med merry go round tipped me over. I didn't know which way was up. I was hyped but angry, mind racing, flying high but super sad, elated and then crash, total craziness. So I feel you. It's terrible. I'm not sure if I prefer the crushing evil depression to the mixed...at least I know where I am, I just don't like it :-/
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Jun 16, 2014, 01:55 PM
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Yeah I am only at 150 mg, we are going to try 200 mg Lamictal next week, for 3 weeks, and if that doesn't work, we will bump it 300 mg.
He thinks that will do it, but he said it's possible another med might have to be added.
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Jun 16, 2014, 02:09 PM
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Btw I have heard lamictal takes a long time to really kick in so stick with it. I had to bail out because it blurred my vision and apparently caused crippling anxiety, but I was ready to give it three months.
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Of course it is happening inside your head. But why on earth should that mean that it is not real? -Albus Dumbledore That’s life. If nothing else, that is life. It’s real. Sometimes it f—-ing hurts. But it’s sort of all we have. -Garden State |
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Jun 16, 2014, 02:25 PM
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Lamictal didn't work for me until I got to 400 mg. Luckily, I was in the hospital for 3 months so I was safe for most of the titrating. Unfortunately, I was let out before it was really working properly and almost committed suicide. Randomly, I got the SJS rash and had to stop it. Lucky me, get the rare side effect.
Lamictal is good for bipolar 2 and helps bipolar depression. Lithium is usually the first line for manic symptoms.
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Jun 16, 2014, 02:33 PM
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Jun 16, 2014, 02:48 PM
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Jun 16, 2014, 04:28 PM
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I totally understand the roller coaster. I hate that. I just hope you are feeling better and get some relief.
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Jun 16, 2014, 10:46 PM
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Lamictal doesn't really do much for mania, I'm afraid. At least not in my case. It's a lot better for the depression, though, which makes it worth bothering with IMHO.
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Jun 17, 2014, 06:58 AM
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The thing is, I was like this before I started seeing my Pdoc, so I don't think it's the Lamictal. I brought this up to him about it not being effective for mania , but he said it's not true, that Lamictal can help prevent mania too. I am still titrating, I should know if it's helping or not soon.
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Jun 17, 2014, 08:57 AM
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Yeah...that's the hard part of meds...some of them take a long time to find the right levels, and it's difficult to tell if the meds are causing a certain issue with moods, or it's something else.
It would be nice if we could level set meds in a vacuum...but alas, life happens...hahahah |
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