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Help! Mixed episode?
| Mon, 11-13-2006 - 2:11pm |
I think I may be experiencing another mixed episode with my bipolar.
I started a new antidepressant 6 days ago. Up until then I was feeling severely depressed for months, but for the past few days I've been experiencing so much anxiety it's really starting to drive me crazy! I feel like I'm being "rushed", yet I still feel down. I feel tired and sped up at the same time. My thoughts are racing, I have so much anxiety, I feel constant butterflies in my stomach. I couldn't sleep well last night and I slept in today until almost 1 this afternoon, just to avoid these feelings. I've been very irritible today and last night, when I was laying down trying to relax, I just kept having these horrible muscle twitches. Right now as I type, I feel like I'm being rushed to type. I feel like I want to slow down but I can't. My stomach is a mess. I don't know what to do. My regular family doctor is who prescribes my meds, and I've only been seeing him for a short time. I do not have a pdoc or therapist right now. Can someone help me? I really need some advice on how to slow down and relax right now.
Thank you,
Angie
I started a new antidepressant 6 days ago. Up until then I was feeling severely depressed for months, but for the past few days I've been experiencing so much anxiety it's really starting to drive me crazy! I feel like I'm being "rushed", yet I still feel down. I feel tired and sped up at the same time. My thoughts are racing, I have so much anxiety, I feel constant butterflies in my stomach. I couldn't sleep well last night and I slept in today until almost 1 this afternoon, just to avoid these feelings. I've been very irritible today and last night, when I was laying down trying to relax, I just kept having these horrible muscle twitches. Right now as I type, I feel like I'm being rushed to type. I feel like I want to slow down but I can't. My stomach is a mess. I don't know what to do. My regular family doctor is who prescribes my meds, and I've only been seeing him for a short time. I do not have a pdoc or therapist right now. Can someone help me? I really need some advice on how to slow down and relax right now.
Thank you,
Angie

God could not be everywhere, so
I'm taking Cymbalta, and I'm actually currently on the lowest dose right now (30 mg). I tried it a year and a half ago and it may have triggered a manic phase, but my current doctor wanted to try it again. I have been trying to take it with food, as I was told it can cause nausea, but my stomach has been such a mess lately that I just can't eat. I've lost 16 lbs in 3 weeks.
I'm really starting to feel like I'm maybe a bit hypomanic. I feel like I'm on speed (I've never taken speed, but I can assume that this is what it would feel like). Overall I just feel sped up, like I can't sit still, my thoughts are racing, etc. I don't take anything for anxiety, so I don't have anything on hand to slow me down.
Thank you for your help.
Angie
God could not be everywhere, so
I was misdiagnosed and was on misc antidepressants for a long time, and it something that sounds similar to what is going on with you. All it did was make my highs higher and lows lower. They added a mood stabilizer which helped. Currently, I am on Lamictal and Wellbutrin now which helps.
I still have some manic episodes though. I can usually stop them by taking Tylenol PM or trazadone and when I finally sleep it will sometimes subside. I can't really eat but I'll drink a slimfast or ensure which keeps me from burning out completely.
That's the only stuff I can think of!
It sounds to me like you need something for anxiety. I also take Cymbalta. I was taking 60mg, but due to my panic attacks...my Pdoc increased it to 90mg. She told me to watch for signs of becoming hpyomanic...but so far so good. I also take lamictal, Geodon, and Xanax. I would go to a Pdoc if I were you. Good luck, and hope you're feeling better soon.
Renee
I was on a "rush" all day yesterday, but last night I "crashed". I was really depressed last night, but was able to sleep, thanks to the Seroquel that I take. Today I feel a lot of anxiety, my heart is racing, and my mind is still racing and I feel some of the energetic feelings I felt yesterday, but I don't have that "I can do anything" feeling I had yesterday afternoon. It's so strange, this rollercoaster ride. It's such a helpless feeling, and it's so frustrating. I haven't called my doctor yet, because I'm trying to "ride it out" on my own for now. I think I'm just worried that he's not going to be able to do anything for me, as this has happened in the past. Doctors have put me on meds and when I've had a reaction to them, they didn't want to do anything about it. I don't want to stop the medication yet, I'd like to give it more time. I just don't want to go back to being the depressed person I was! But I hate this anxiousness that I'm feeling. I guess I'm just kind of stuck, I'm not really sure what I want to do.
Thanks to all of you who replied.
Angie