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Nov 20, 2018, 06:30 PM
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I'm kind of worried I might be headed for another up cycle soon and I wanted to know what you people experience as warning signs when you're about to take off.
What makes me think I might be heading in the manic direction are some symptoms I've been experiencing for the past couple of weeks. I've had a consistently elevated mood, I'm irritable at times (moreso than normal), very cocky and full of myself, no anxiety, slept 3-4 hours every night last week (though it's back to normal now), I'm finding it easy to come up with things to say like jokes and stories, and I'm extremely sociable/talkative. Those are just a few things I've noticed lately and they are way out of the norm for me.
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Nov 20, 2018, 06:48 PM
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As soon as my sleep changes and I get pissy about Everything .
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Nov 20, 2018, 06:53 PM
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Yeah my major sign is a few nights of not sleeping along with feeling better not sleeping....it's like skipping sleep invigorates me. Certain meds can trip me off like ADs or steroids gotta avoid stimulants. Sometimes I have a bad run of not sleeping but it doesn't invigorate me and it's just a bad run of not sleeping which makes me irritated but doesn't set me off.
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Nov 20, 2018, 08:03 PM
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Not sleeping. Or getting by on little sleep but not missing it. Say maybe 4 hours or less per night (though to stay stable, I've really got to have at least 6, ideally 8 hr./night). If I have 3 or 4 nights with that little sleep, full mania will be right there. It happens fast for me. Even though hypo feels so good, once I realize I am in this pattern, I call the pdoc. I hate to end the hypo, but the full-blown mania has been nothing but trouble for me and my relationships with others.
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#5
Nov 21, 2018, 12:09 AM
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I know I'm hypo when I walk across town in the middle of the night to get energy drinks. I also feel like sleeping is a huge waste of time. I feel very euphoric and clean like a mad woman.
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Nov 21, 2018, 04:11 PM
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I know I'm ramping up when I start feeling like I could jog all the way to Texas and back. It's a great feeling but I know what it inevitably presages.
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DX: Bipolar 1 Anxiety Tardive dyskinesia Mild cognitive impairment RX: Celexa 20 mg Gabapentin 1200 mg Geodon 40 mg AM, 60 mg PM Klonopin 0.5 mg PRN Lamictal 500 mg Levothyroxine 125 mcg (rx'd for depression) Trazodone 150 mg Zyprexa 7.5 mg Please come visit me @ http://bpnurse.com |
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