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Feb 29, 2024 at 12:25 PM
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If so would you like to briefly share your symptoms and add a little on how it disrupts your life? Needing examples so I can compare my own experience.
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Feb 29, 2024 at 08:50 PM
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@mar dhea I have not heard of that so I googled Cyclothymia
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Mar 01, 2024 at 02:29 AM
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Please cross-post on Bipolar forum as Cyclothymia is the mildest disorder of the Bipolar spectrum.
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Anyone diagnosed with Cyclothymia?
If so would you like to briefly share your symptoms and add a little on how it disrupts your life? Needing examples so I can compare my own experience. I was diagnosed with bipolar II [with some comorbid features...avpd is the big one] some years back but because of the mood swing frequency, my new psy-doc is leaning towards cyclothemia instead. I'm still fighting having to take meds specifically for it but may try again at some point. Not doing as well lately. I tried several diff meds [for only 3  years] before deciding I'd just manage with an anti-depressant + add medication. It's been a tough scene ever since. Very hilly terrain. Up and down all the time. Getting worse. No extremes but extreme and frequent enough to compromise life significantly. Avpd is still there of course and add has ALWAYS been a part of my life.Anyway. Cyclothemia. Anyone? Last edited by mar dhea; Mar 01, 2024 at 01:05 PM.. |
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Mar 01, 2024 at 09:43 PM
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If you are bipolar I, then being on an antidepressant and a stimulant for ADHD constantly tends to elevate your mood, causing swings. And then perhaps your organic predisposition causes you to switch from high to low, and you treat low mood with antidepressant, sending yourself into a spiral. If you truly have Bipolar or even just cyclothymia, your current medication mix is counterindicated for you. It is cyclothymia, not dysthymia, right? The latter is treated with antidepressants.
Separately, since you cycle so much, you might benefit from keeping a mood journal to see patterns and help identify triggers of swings. Psy-doc is called a pdoc on these forums for short. Did the pdoc take all your history into account before suggesting the cyclothymia dx (diagnosis)? These are my things, but I cannot help with your initial query since I have a full blown Bipolar I. Maybe someone with a milder form steps in with a description of their symptoms. __________________ Bipolar I w/psychotic features Last inpatient stay in 2018 Geodon 40 mg Seroquel 75 mg Lybalvi 5 mg as a PRN Gabapentin 1200 mg, Vitamin B-complex (against extrapyramidal side effects) Long term side effects from medications some of them discontinued: - hypothyroidism - obesity Suspected narcolepsy Treated with Ritalin 5mg Last edited by Tart Cherry Jam; Mar 01, 2024 at 11:17 PM.. |
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Thanks for your insight and journaling suggestion TCJ. Noted and appreciated. Yes, hoping someone with a similar diagnosis swings by. Would really help to see how it's affecting them and hear how they approach it. |
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Mar 02, 2024 at 08:45 PM
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I've had a lot of bp diagnosis mainly bp2 but right now it's Sza. So I'm somewhere on the chart currently dealing with light depression. With an antipsychotic and antidepressant.
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Hi. Can I ask what Sza is? Do you mean schizo-affective? I'd like to be assessed again. See if the outcome is the same as the last. I think there have been some changes though they could be mostly circumstantial. That said if I'm going to bother a psychiatrist at this stage of the game I'd better be prepared to accept the medication they offer. Not really sure what I'm going to do. |
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Yes I mean scizoaffective. I'm on less meds now than ever. It just depends on the psychiatrist.
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