Meds for BPD - what do you take?

I'd never heard of PMDD until a therapist I'd been seeing for quite a good amount of time handed me some pieces of paper she'd printed off the internet and asked me to read them. They were about PMDD. I read them and thought, "OMG, somebody's got my life bugged! This is ME." We charted my cycles for 3 months using those unbelievably detailed PMDD questionnaires and a clear pattern emerged. It was like "bingo".

I am sorry: I didn't intend to frighten you - more like give you a heads up. You're far ahead of the game compared to me - you know about it at a younger age than I did and are already taking steps to "manage" it. So it's likely not going to be as crazeballs for you as was my period swansong years.

Don't be afraid to ask for something to stabilize your mood if things start to get radically extreme. There's no reason any woman should go through such agony (Oh yeah: that's the other thing, the physical pain also went off the charts those waning years - but only for the first 36-48 hours of the flow beginning).

Ain't it great bein' a girl? LOL

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Hey Gals , I have to thank you for making me laugh so much ! : ) I haven't smiled in so long ! Let me explain. Here I am getting dizzy reading about all these friggin diagnoseees or whatever and all these friggin different meds ! I'm laughing because I have BPD , ABC , or who knows what and I'm going crazy. Then the last couple of posts about PMS and hormones and the like just got me going. I'm not laughing at you or the problem just what you guys reminded me of. I mean I suffered intensely once a month for many years due to my wife's' , you know , woman thing , and I got thru all that , ( plus menopause ). Only to wind up getting divorced after all that was over and everything was ( supposed ) to be great ! I mean the irony is unreal. I guess I have a weird sense of humor. Well to even things out I wound up having " guy " problems which was sweet revenge for my wife.

I apologize if I offended anyone in any way . ( But I still can't stop laughing )

I suppose if I let my BPD and ADHD hyperfocus fly, I could find some/many/a lot of things in your post about which to take offense.

But, it's a beautiful, sunny bright morning, I have the house quietly to myself, and I just don't feel like renting my headspace out for that. Much bigger fish to fry.

So, for me, we're good. Laughter is one of the best medicines.

Come on , have a sense of humor. I'm over it now anyhow. I just let my feelings get the best of me , you can understand that right ? Here's something that may make you laugh.

I wound up having to testosterone because my level was VERY low. This was in my 50's.
A gland problem or something. Well I used all the different methods of application but getting a shot once a month turned out to be the easiest. Well my wife started to complain that exactly 3 days afterwards if we got into an argument it was because of the shot. She said it made me argumentative and loud. Now in the beginning my numbers were high until after a few months my blood work showed it evened out. But the irony ! Now it was reversed. I was the one with the "monthly problem " get it ? ( you should be laughing now , no ? ) OK. How bout this. Never got to use the newfound ability ! Wouldn't let me. How's that for revenge ! See us guys have our problems too.
What does all this have to do with bpd ? Probably a lot.

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I was given meds for depression and anxiety, which co-occured with my BPD diagnosis. After my pdoc and I ran through the gamut of ADs she put me on a mood stabilizer. She then gave me the bipolar type 1 diagnosis because I was also having mania at the time. I'm surprised I stayed somewhat sane through all those ADs, especially when I was working a high-stress job.

Well, so much for telling the truth: I really wasn't upset. I'm trying to pick my battles, ya know? DBT, practicing skills and all that?

My dad got monthly testosterone shots. It was rough when he was getting due for his shot.

I really found out through googling, I haven't been "officially" diagnosed with it but my therapist agrees I have it. Mostly I just google things and that's how I figure it out. I'm sure it was something along the lines of "why do I meltdown before I get my period?" Lol. It just helps to know that other people go through the same thing!

I'm always glad to make other people smile or laugh! Not offended at all. I'm very lucky that my boyfriend lives his life by "The 4 agreements" and one is don't take anything personally. Like Saturday when he offered to change the restaurant we were going too because I thought the one he wanted to go to might not have much I could eat, he was being thoughtful and I freaked out and said "If you don't want to eat lunch with me just take me home!" and then cried... Thank God he doesn't take it personally. He just rolls with it when I'm afraid the salad restaurant won't have anything vegetarian for me to eat. /insanity

I'm not sure if I have BPD or not, I think it was in my file at some point. I know I had several traits, but I've mostly outgrown them. I wanted to share what meds help me regardless of my label:

Invega (antipsychotic)
Depakote (mood stablizer)
Zyprexa (antipsychotic)
Paxil (antidepressant)

Then hydroxyzine prn for anxiety. I know it seems like a lot of meds but they all serve a purpose.

I rely on coping skills a lot too, don't underestimate them, they do help.

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I've had a med switch.

Now I'm on:

40mg Fetzima
20mg Latuda
20mg Buspar
a Deplin-like psych supplement (don't know the dosage level - it's 2 pills a day)

I'll be starting 15mg baclofen for sleep along with my 1mg Xanax. If the baclofen works, I'm going to titrate off the Xanax really slowly.

Paxil kinda helped me (mostly for anxiety though)

and diazepam

I'm trying a "new" AD at the moment which isn't doing much of anything

Hi fuzzy. Which one are you taking? There are a handful of new ones floating around out there right now. I hate being the guinea pig, don't you?

Yes, I do hate being the guinea pig I'm taking agomelatine - I think it may be beginning to kick in at last

I've never heard of that one. It might not be available in the U.S.? I'll have to do some googling... thanks for replying!