Question for any and all!!!
 

A few days ago my husband came and said that he thought I had had a bipolar shift I went crazy on him. I told him that I had never felt better and that things were fine. This morning he said why he feels the way he does again. I guess I am spending a lot of money, I am not sleeping, I have way too much energy, you can not shut me up and I talk about nothing and change the subject all the time, I am also irritable, he is concerned because I have stopped taking my fainting medicine because I do not think it works I also do not think the doctors know what they are doing. He said that I have no attention span any longer, said that I am incapable of completing a task. I normally write about a half a page a day in my journal now we are up to 3 pages a day. There were other things on the list but these were the major ones. I have been diagnosed with bipolar I and am being treated for that. ? is does anyone think I have had a shift or is my husband just over reacting?:confused:

collinsc

Sounds very much like you have had a shift as you call it.

I would definately get ahold of your therapist or doctor. And see if
you can get a appointment to talk about this. I don't know what
they had you taking for the fainting, but it sounds very much like
it might have been doing something completely different for you than
it was prescribed.

It also sounds like it might be a maniac type attack if that makes sense.
At least that is what my sister would say she is in. And I know that
she would definately get ahold of her doctor about either taking more
of one of her medicines or adding something. But she has been doing
this for years.

Please because your husband is seeing this let your doctor know.
He is doing a very good job of being your eyes and ears when you
can't do it.

donna:hug:

yes you sound hypomanic which can turn to mania real fast. You need to be seen by your pdoc (psychiatrist) to discuss this...one of your meds may have acted as a mood stabilizer....
keep us posted.
get help!
bizi

thoughts
 

for the most part, i agree with the others that you could easily be hypo: you listed a lot of changes and the fact that your husband thinks those changes are significant is important because he knows what is "normal" for you and can notice differences.

i would like to add, though, that in your first few posts here, you sounded really down and out. anything but "extra happy." my concern here is that your mood quality may be low, while your energy etc may be high... i.e. there may be mixed features to this hypomania. please let your pdoc know the bad feelings are there too, even though it is situational, because it is still relevant to any medication tweaks s/he may want to make.

finally, i interpreted one thing in your post differently than how Donna and Beth did, i think. what i understood you to be saying was that, your husband perceived your suspension of your fainting drugs as a symptom of this "shift" rather than a determining cause. Dunno how long you had been on those meds, but i was thinking they may even have contributed to this shift. anyway, please talk to your pdoc about these meds too. your pdoc can probably figure out if they played a role either way - please tell him exactly what you were taking, and also when you stopped, also when the changes started. hopefully your husband can help you narrow down when your mood started to "shift."

please call pdoc ASAP, and take care!!! :hug:

~ waves ~

HI,


The fainting meds were keeping you done.
Now you might be a bit up.

Your husband probably has observed you up and down for a while now.
Trust him.

Good luck. Call the pdoc.


M.

Waves
You are right, it can be that too.
For the fainting medicine.

I wasn't sure how to post that either.

Donna

How are you now?

barbara

Thank you!!!
 

Barbara,
I am about the same as I was. I see My Psych Doc on Monday, so hopefully she can take care of this! I wrote all I am feeling down so I do not forget to tell her anything. I also have in there about still being very depressed along with the super high. :confused: My Godfather died on Monday so my mother and I had to go to the three day funeral services, that only made things worse.:( Thank you for taking the time to ask how I am doing!

collinsc

hey there
 

dear Collinsc,

i'm sorry to hear about your Godfather. :( :hug:

good luck with your appointment today. that was good to write everything down.

let us know how it goes. :hug:

~ waves ~

Hope you don't mind I'm going to call you Collin.
I mix up names. The other is to much for me.

I am sorry for your loss also. I am hoping your pdoc can help you also.
Please let us know how it goes.

Donna

Dear Collinsc
 

wondering how you are doing?

and how did the appointment go?

:hug:

~ waves ~

post when you can...we are all ears...
(((((HUGS)))))
bizi

Love doctors!!!
 

Well I went to my appointment and did what my therapist said to do by writing how I felt down. I gave this information to my doc and she became terribly concerned. She started asking me what I thought about going inpatient and stuff like that. I tried to get myself out of it but she said she wanted to do a med change and that it would be unsafe to do it as an outpatient. I knew what she was saying was total crap but what was I supposed to do? In I went! That was last Monday I cannot remember the date but I didn't get out until yesterday. I am not sure what places like that are supposed to do but they do not help me at all! For all of you that going inpatient does help I am not knocking it I am only saying it isn't for me. I actually feel worse now than when I went in. I wasn't handling stress very well when I went in but now I cannot handle anything. I had to go see my therapist today and that didn't go well so I left there crying. Normally my therapist and I get along but today he was very hard on me! After that I had to go to the bank and there was a mean manager there that I had words with. I didn't cry while I was in the bank but when I got outside in my car fell apart. I could barely breath! I had some klonopins in my wallet so I took one of them and tried to calm down enough to be able to drive home. I got home and called my mother and told her about all the horrible things, she calmed me do and things have been much better for the rest of the day. I just feel that I have absolutely no coping skills and my tolerance for stress is gone. I don't know if I left the hospital too soon or if there is something else going on but all I do know is that emotionally I cannot handle another day like today!

collinsc

OMG this sounds awful.:(
There should have been support group meetings and individual meetings/therapy sessions.what meds did she put you on?
I am so sorry tht you are feeling like this and am very happy that your mother was able to support you.
we are here....
shame on your therapist for being hard on you...you just went thru a bad experience....you need support and encouragement.
you are trying to get better.
(((((HUGS)))))
bizi

When I was hospitalized, I got nothing -- no meds, no support, . . .
 

Hi,
I was hospitalized in a gov state hospital (not well funded).
I was there for 4 nights and three days in a mixed mood.

Counting in-take, out-take, and seeing the pdoc in the hallway twice, I saw a pdoc for 5 minutes. I got no med changes, no support groups. Nothing.
I left as bad off as I was when I got there except they kept my wallet too. (What a mess it was after a car accident to find out I did not have my wallet and needed my driver's license!)


Did you get the med change that the pdoc promised you?


That is so awful.
I'm sorry.


M.

hey collinsc
 

welcome back! i wondered where you'd gone off to! so that's where. :o

i'm so sorry you went through this. :( if i recall correctly you did not have a pdoc but your regular GP was scripting your meds, is that right? i wonder if you had a pdoc if the hx would have been "necessary."

from the different stories i've heard, the care in hospitals varies a whole lot, from pretty decent to really bad. i suspect however that going inpatient is almost always traumatic/stressful to a degree. at times, it still may be better to go in than not. and that partly depends on the quality of care.

i went inpatient, once, voluntarily once. it was ok, but i got less than i had expected. i had been in stop-the-world-i-want-to-get off state, non-stop and for too long, and it allowed me to do that. they did sort out my meds. but when i got out i too fell apart totally at first: instant overwhelm and anxiety. i felt better relatively quickly, however. i hope you do too. :hug:

i am glad your mom is there for you. i hope today is a good day, for you, to start with.

~ waves ~

p.s. once you settle down, if in fact your GP is scripting your meds, i would seriously consider pdoc-shopping. ;)

Med Change
 

Mari,
I did get the med change that was promised. I am not too sure of how I feel about that though. They took me off of one of my meds, trileptal, because it was lowering my sodium level and put me on lamictal. They thought that would be good with the geodon and the klonopin but then they decided I needed more. This is the one I wish they never put me on! Lithium. I have anorexia and this med causes weight gain. I already have control issues, if I start losing control over my weight I am not sure where we will end up. I am so sorry for your traumatic stay in a gov hospital. My hospital was private so I can say it was very nice. I just wish that the doctors and the nurses would listen to you. I honestly believe when you are admitted into one of these kinds of places the immediately think you are stupid and have no brain!

Waves,
I do not have a psych doc but I have a nurse pract that works as my psych doc. My general doc hasn't touched my psych meds since he put me into a manic phase by playing with my drugs. I only see him for referrals and check ups, everything else is done through specialists. I would love to get a actual psych doc but if I leave where I am now, I lose my therapist. I have a great relationship, usually, with him and I would want another therapist.

collinsc:hug: for both of you!!!!

I too became low sodium on trileptal..and switched to lamictal which has a high sucess rate! I am sorry you struggle with an eating disorder...that must be hard.
bizi

Collinsc

I'm glad to see you back. We will be here to help all we can. I didn't
realize the sodium problems trileptal causes. But I want to thank
you guys for this information.

My son takes a very high dosage of trileptal for his seizures. And I dont
see us switching for a while. I hope we don't have this problem.


Lamictal was a medication that my son used to take for seizures, also.
And he did well on it. So I will hope that for your problems you do
well on it too.

Donna