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Jun 22, 2014, 10:38 PM
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I have been diagnosed with Bipolar and am currently on Latuda daily. I am having severe agitation episodes, this is causing major problems with my marriage as it is causing constant fights. I am looking for any suggestions other then medication and counseling (which I am already doing) to help get through these severe episode. I fear that this may end my marriage if I can not get it under control.
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Jun 23, 2014, 12:35 AM
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Jun 23, 2014, 06:45 AM
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I was thinking medication as well. How long have you been on Latuda?
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Jun 23, 2014, 07:05 AM
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We have a rule in our house that the saner one can not engage in an argument with the other leaving the aggravated one in a one sided fight.
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Jun 23, 2014, 07:19 AM
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Medication could be the cause depending on how long you've been on it. Although it could be an episode because I gt like that all the damn time, meds or no. I don know if you have time for this or a chance to do it but what helps me is taking some quiet time. I go into my bedroom or another quiet room and just sit for awhile. Length of time varies depending on how long I have and how pissed off or agitated I am. At my worst it has taken an hour of sitting in total silence. I could only do that bc my husband had to go to a meeting and my son was in bed. Usually I get about ten or fifteen minutes. But it helps to just cut off all stimulation and just breathe.
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Jun 23, 2014, 01:42 PM
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Severe agitation was my number one symptom that finally pushed me to see a Pdoc.
My wife was tired of my bad irritable mood, and I was tired of it too! Lamictal is helping mildly at 200mg, though I may up it to 300mg, to see if it helps better. Right now, I think I am definitely less agitated than when im unmedicated.
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Jun 23, 2014, 01:54 PM
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Jun 23, 2014, 03:38 PM
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I, too, am wondering about medication. I was on Zoloft and has sheerly hellish agitation/anxiety/angst. AWFUL. I dropped the Zoloft down to almost nothing and had a vast improvement immediately.
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