i am learning alot here...
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| Fri, 02-11-2005 - 10:24pm |
i was dxed bipolar like a year ago, but i always had alot more trouble with the depression part. {i only get hypomanic, and not all that often when compared to the depression.} as a result, i payed alot more attention to the information and advice i got about depression, and never looked into the manic stuff much. it actually feels really good when i'm like that so why stop it right. that is what i figured. since this last med change, i have been haveing a real roller coaster of a time though. i kind of stumbled onto this board, and i'm glad i did. from reading your posts i have learned that there is an awful lot about this disease that i don't know or understand. since i am going to be stuck this way for the rest of my life, i figure the more i can learn the better. so i would like to say thank you to all of you for opening my eyes to my ignorance of my own condition. maybe i can learn more now that i have a little better idea what it is i am trying to research. so while i'm at it, dose anyone else get head aches? and i am also wondering if my lack of short tearm memory is at all related to the condition. thanks for your input and support.
Becky


becky,
i'm by no means a 'pro' at this, as the docs are
Becky,
Traci knows more than she gives herself credit for. Your headaches could well be a side effect and so can your memory loss. There is some memory loss directly related to high highs and low lows but the meds can definitly contribute to it too. It can be one of those side effects that ware off in time.
I've had to make some adjustments for my memory. What seemed to cause it for me is the prozac. I keep a calander and pda. I set alarms in my pda. I've timed things around events. ie. I take my night meds when the spy sweeper goes off on the computer. My evening meds go in me when I start dinner. Stuff like that. I make lists. I always tell people if I don't write it down I'm lieing about doing it. It just won't happen. When I compare the problems with memory loss with the problems of going without my meds, there's No comparision. I can work around the memory loss.
Hope this helps and I'm glad you're here. Many of us made it here through the back door of a depression dx. We tend to seek help with the depression because the mania doesn't seem too bad.(until it starts screwing up your life)
Love,
Jamie
Love,