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#1
Apr 30, 2016, 12:39 PM
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sorry if this is a strange question, but when you're (hypo)manic, do you feel it in your gut? Like a nervous butterfly-filled stomach + don't feel like eating + "I just drank a pot of coffee" type poop habits?
I've never seen anything like this listed as a 'symptom' but it makes sense to me...serotonin plays a major role in moods, sleep, appetite etc. and 90% of it is located in the gut. It seems like a fluctuation in serotonin levels would effect the stomach (I also feel like I read once that depression can be associated with constipation?) I know drugs like zoloft (which increase serotonin) commonly cause diarrhea and are also used for IBS... Anyways, just wondering if others experience this or if it's just me 
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#2
Apr 30, 2016, 12:49 PM
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Well, I do get the nervous butterfly-filled stomach and don't feel like eating, but I don't feel like taking a crap.
I do have IBS and I have medication for it, but it's not a serotonin kind. My intestines basically spasm and the spasms make me want to take a crap. So, it's not really a serotonin thing for me... if that makes sense. I take an antispasmodic PRN. But I wouldn't say your theory is wrong. It's entirely possible that everyone has a "limit" on how much serotonin they can have before they feel like taking a crap. So, maybe your serotonin levels tend to exceed that "limit" and that's what causes you to crap... and maybe my serotonin levels don't exceed that limit. |
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#3
Apr 30, 2016, 12:52 PM
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It's mostly that I don't eat or drink enough when manic, I think. But maybe there is something else changing/influential as well. Maybe even more important.
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Apr 30, 2016, 12:56 PM
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Not wanting to eat is most probably, rather certainly, caused by changes that work more directly than via the gut, to lessen appetite.
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#5
Apr 30, 2016, 04:59 PM
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Pooping sucks. Period. Lol especially when you have IBS with D and get sick after the day after having a couple drinks. I get massive stomach cramps from my IBS so that's why I hate it. I absolutely love beer but I pay the consequences the next day for sure. As far as BP goes, I never had a issue. But now that I think of it, some meds effect me like the lithium poops. Nasty and incurable in my case. Love lithium but not the side effect of spending half my day in the bathroom lol.
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Apr 30, 2016, 05:08 PM
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Mania kills cells. Brain cells die. Memories become more reduced conceptually, making more efficient use of limited means. Memories shape our reality. Our memories are more or less split in two by abstractions, conceptual reductions. Mood states with memories, concepts, attached. Memories of pain and those of joy. It causes instability, changeability. Fearing that will leave an emptiness between pain and joy and a greater divide. See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me. |
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#7
Apr 30, 2016, 08:28 PM
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Let's talk about the shits will'ya.
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| MusicLover82
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Apr 30, 2016, 10:20 PM
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You guys are cracking me up!
 The times I have diarrhea is when I'm having anxiety (which I *think* goes along with a depressive episode... it's hard to tell if it's a mixed state or depression). I also have no appetite. :-P |
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#9
Apr 30, 2016, 11:06 PM
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When having those bad cramps along with the poop, yes that is horrible. But sometimes you get the ones where you feel so much better afterwards, like you lost some weight!
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| BipolaRNurse, ComfortablyNumb5, MusicLover82
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#10
Apr 30, 2016, 11:27 PM
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How about that kind that makes you shiver with relief?! Lmao
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| BipolaRNurse, gina_re
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#11
May 01, 2016, 02:04 AM
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My metabolism speeds up when hypomanic or manic. I have noticed that before.
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