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Default Mar 22, 2023 at 11:10 AM
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In a few hours we will officially be HOME OWNERS and pick up the keys at lunch time!

Moving in TOMORROW. Too much excitement ... and nerves ... and packing ... and cleaning!
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Default Mar 22, 2023 at 11:36 AM
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So my tests were ok. So my next step is probably seeing a urologist. I know the pain was only going on for a few days but the retention and hesitancy has been going on for a lot longer. I started the med for my pain last night. It works great for that specefic pain. Also I'm going to the bathroom a lot less then I was before. But the side effects are awful. have the worst nausea. Its so bad I'd rather have the kidney pain. I also have these weird flu like symptoms and I've been in bed all day and I've only been able to eat soup and saltine crackers and water mostly. So I sent a message to my doctor explanining that the med was helping the pain but the nauasea was horrible and I asked if he had any suggestions. He told me this could possibly happen and to shoot him a message if it did. Today I've basically just been curled up in a ball in bed with CNN on mute, and I took 2 zofran and 2 pepcid and I dozed off for half an hour and then I was able to eat a can of soup for lunch. Right now I feel mediocre.

I just got a message from his nurse that hes sending in a different med. Yeah, the side effects from Presidone were better then this

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Default Mar 22, 2023 at 11:47 AM
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In a few hours we will officially be HOME OWNERS and pick up the keys at lunch time!

Moving in TOMORROW. Too much excitement ... and nerves ... and packing ... and cleaning!

Understand your excitement and nerves! Wish you a good night's sleep and hope everything goes well with the move tomorrow.

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So my tests were ok. So my next step is probably seeing a urologist. (...)

I just got a message from his nurse that hes sending in a different med. Yeah, the side effects from Presidone were better then this

Good that these first tests were OK. Glad you are getting new medications, hopefully with less side effects.

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Default Mar 22, 2023 at 12:37 PM
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I am not so well. The pain in my body has become much better, but there is something else.

Some days ago I started to feel some sort of nausea, but not enough for me to call it a real "nausea".

Today I have had diarrhea after a meal. Perhaps it is a flu after all, or may be it is my Diabetes that plays with me (or I with it )?

In all these winter months I have had problems following the nutritious goals for Diabetes because of depression. I mean my dinner plates. At the bread-front I have followed the usual diabetes advices, but not so much fruit as I should have eaten because of the higher food prices. I forgot to take my diabetes meds this morning and after a while I felt almost as drunk. (Those who have diabetes and have experienced fluctuations between glucose levels understand what I mean). My brain didn't function well, but after I checked my glucose level and took my medication, I was almost OK again.

I feel really tired today, may be it's too hard to say, but I think I am tired of life and all it's trouble. It's the weather, it's balancing differnt diseases (physical and mental) and more ...

I think I will allow myself to have a bad day. I mean to day I will not use my psych tools (my stomach continues to signal that it is not satisfied).

The good thing is that I will have my arms examined tomorrow. Then I will at least have an answer about that.

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@raspberrytorte, I'm sorry you were recently inpatient, but am glad that you are safe. A year between hospitalizations can be a long time when struggling with instability. Wishing you a very long time until any next. Or hopefully no additional.

It appears that we will finally be moving to our new house this coming Monday. We've been busy with various plans and are starting to do some packing. That's why I haven't been around here for a bit. I'm a bit behind in reading posts, so send positive vibes and hugs to all who need them. It seems that my recent bad (and long) cold is finally heading out. Today I barely noticed any symptoms.

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Default Mar 22, 2023 at 01:30 PM
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My doctor prescribed Reglan. I looked it up and I'm a bit concerned about it. Its been pulled off the market at least once by the FDA due to the high risk of TD. Its also addicting and can cause rapid weight gain. So I decided to call and leave a message for my pdoc and ask him. I'm not sure he'll want me on something thats addicting and has such a high risk of TD. But maybe he'll be fine with it.

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Default Mar 22, 2023 at 01:47 PM
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Still here, just really got back into Scrabble this week. Not sure if i will keep it up tho. It's kind of unpleasant. My ZOOM support group was really good today. I spoke a couple times about happy memories of my family when i was young. Things fell apart when i was a teen but at least up until i was ten i was happy, which is a lot more than some people get.

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. Things fell apart when i was a teen but at least up until i was ten i was happy, which is a lot more than some people get.

Sending good vibes to all who struggle!

Thanks for the vibes! Hope many feel comforted by them.

I do understand how much it means to have the first years of one's childhood as good years.

As far as I remember my childhood was happy until ten as well. Of course there were some unhappy feelings in the first years also, but so it is to be human. Not every hour of the day is happy, but it is the total that that counts. I do remember some of the unhappy days before ten, but mostly I remember a lot of good happenings from that time period: hikes with my parents, many good Christmas celebrations, family gatherings, vacations, school days, playing with my friends and more!

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I slept a total of 9 hours last night. I did it in 3 shifts of a few hours each. I'll see how things go tonight.

I had an intense workout at the gym today, but it was good.

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Default Mar 22, 2023 at 04:17 PM
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Went back to the senior center this afternoon for 500 again. There were a few people that were the same but by and large it was a different group. A bit more cohesive and we’re having dinner on the 12th. It sure makes the day pass more quickly.

It’s a bit hard going so fast. They really whip though the games and sometimes I’m not sure what’s going on. I sometimes forget the bower but mostly I do ok keeping up.

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@raspberrytorte, I'm sorry you were recently inpatient, but am glad that you are safe. A year between hospitalizations can be a long time when struggling with instability. Wishing you a very long time until any next. Or hopefully no additional.

It appears that we will finally be moving to our new house this coming Monday. We've been busy with various plans and are starting to do some packing. That's why I haven't been around here for a bit. I'm a bit behind in reading posts, so send positive vibes and hugs to all who need them. It seems that my recent bad (and long) cold is finally heading out. Today I barely noticed any symptoms.
Oh, I’m so glad you’re going to get into your own home soon. I bet that will help things so much. It will be nice. Congratulations 🎊

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Bipolar NOS, what is it?

This afternoon I have a lot of free time. So this is the day I have the opportunity to write about it, in case somebody is interested and don't know so much about it.

Until now I have seen two of us here, but there may be more.

Fist: The diagnose Bibolar NOS (Bipolar Not Otherwise Specified) doesn't excist any more. It was a DSM IV diagnose.

For the moment it is DSM 5 (American) and ICD 10 (European) that is in use. Interesting that Europe and America have their own versions. One should believe that a MI is the same in both regions. But they have decided to use their own versions.

In DSM 5 The Bipolar NOS is now numbered 296.80 and called Unspesified Bipolar and Related Disorder and is used for symptoms "caracteristic of bipolar and related disorder that cause clinically significant distress" in several areas. (Work, Social and more).

In ICD 10 The Bipolar NOS is now numbered F34,9 and called Persistent mood [affective] disorder, unspecified.

Well as some of us learned when we were children: "A loved child has many names". So we who are in these categories must be highly loved.

I wanted to take it up because that diagnose does not mean that we suffer less than others in the Bipolar specter, but there is something with us that makes it difficult for the clinican to put us into a proper Bipolar category.

When it comes to me, however, it is the number of required days for the "highs" that makes it difficult to set a full Bipolar disorder diagnose. The required days for Hypomania is 4 days. So if one has only one day feeling "high" in between, that day is just as terrible as it is for those with the required four days, especially if there is tension in it as well.

I have most of the depressions. Many of you have probably noticed that already since I, not too long ago, wrote posts where I wondered if I had the right to be here (if I was good enough for you since my diagnosis was neither I nor II). My depressions have been of all kinds from mild to severe.

Well, that was that! I had the time to do it today.

After today I am not so sure that I will have the time to be here so often as before. It takes so much time to be here and comfort others as well as wanting comfort for oneself. I have made a plan to follow in the coming weeks. My therapist knows about my plan. I need to use my time well to overcome my sufferings and be able to go on with my life. Life has much to give even to the elderly. When I am togheter with my best friends, we laugh a lot ...

NB Nobody here has hurt me! NB I am not running from something or somebody, but I need to use my time in a beneficial way for myself to recover more (as soon as my arms are fixed).

See you now and then! Under all circumstances I will come and tell the result of the examination of my arms that has caused me so much trouble.

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Thanks rosi700 that was very interesting. To me bipolar is bipolar no matter if it 1 or 2 or nos. Had no idea the DSM had moved on to #5.

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My therapist and I try to keep my visits to 3x/month. I called Monday night and left a message cancelling next Monday because I forgot to do it earlier in the day and I wanted to leave a message that I was sorry I had been in an extremely bad mood with him but was too shy to do that live. I got a text Tuesday telling me the appointment was cancelled.

Today I got the usual Wednesday text message and email that I needed to confirm my appointment and choose office, online or telephone. So I called to verify that my appointment had been cancelled. I got this woman I don't think I've ever met who demanded to know why I was cancelling. I spit out something about it being my agreement with my therapist but I wanted to just say "none of your business". I've had one other time (I think the same woman) asked for that information. It's not like I'm cancelling late or violating policies.


Am I right that it is none of her business or is this normal? (keeping in mind I'm depressed and grouchy right now so I may be oversensitive and also please be gentle)

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I can see a receptionist asking why you canceled but not if you were calling to verify it had already been canceled and definitely not being snotty about it. Geez 🙄 sounds like she’s too invested in your Ts business.

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@BeyondtheRainbow:

I can understand you feeling that staff was being nosy asking for an explanation. I think you did well to say merely that it was your agreement with your therapist. Administrative staff do not need to know confidential information.

I've even BOOKED appointments with my doctor and when admin staff asked why i just said i'd discuss it with him! We all have a right to doctor-patient confidentiality!

Sorry to hear you are depressed now. I'm in the same boat.
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