My sugar is a little high right now from what I ate earlier for lunch, slept through breakfast. Soon it will be time for dinner. Need to keep the carbs lower for dinner if possible.
I am still moody, confused, hyper. I don’t like feeling this way. When it is this weird I would rather be depressed and lying down. This sucks. I am trying to keep my mind on reading blogs and writing my own. Something to distract me from this horrible feeling.
I am still in pain so bouncing my legs all over is quite painful because it shakes my whole body. I am tired again as well. I already took the Latuda earlier today and probably why I am still so hyper, but I have to find out what is the correct time or no time at all. I may have to stop it after all the fighting to get it.
As someone told me, it is like taking 2 anti-depressants (Latuda and Cymbalta) and most of us with Bipolar Disorder know what that does. So I am probably getting too much anti-depressant. However I do not feel manic. I think I am rapid cycling, one minute fine and the next off my rocker. Latuda is not really a mood stabilizer so I am not taking one anymore even though my psyche nurse says there are not such things as mood stabilizers. No class of drugs that are classified that. This is the first really bad problem with what she has prescribed me. She had to take me off what the hospital prescribed. They had me on Halodon. Bad news for me, but wasn’t in the hospital long enough for them to know it was wrong.
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wow – so sorry – my dil goes through this
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It is driving me nuts.
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Lithium was the first to be classified as a mood stabilizer over fifty years ago. There’s a plethora of atypical anti-psychotics as well as anti seizure drugs also classified as mood stabilizers. This nurse does not sound very knowledgeable on the matter. Anti-depressant therapy without a stabilizer is dangerous and borderline negligent. I would know, I had the wrong diagnosis for over ten years and they gave me only anti depressants which made me more unstable. One the stabilizer was introduced, things improved drastically as far as the rapid cycles. Now if I could find the magic bullet anti depressant to help with the months long depressions…Unicorns.
Anyway, that’s my feedback. Mood stabilizers are real, even if most started out with a different classification before being cross labeled.
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I have been on mood stabilizers til now. I don’t know why she would say that. She was quite adamant about it before I even started it. So from the looks of things I am taking 2 antidepressants and no mood stabilizer. I just looked it up and you don’t need a mood stabilizer but if you do use Lithium or Depakote and I can’t take either of them.
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The lithium made me sick, the depakote made me a zombie. I’ve been on lamictal for four years now, it does pretty well. Lots of options out there but two anti depressant effects in bipolar, even bipolar two…not sure even I would go there and I am desperate for a way out of the depression. Hope you figure it out,.
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Pretty much the same here with those 2. The only one that even remotely helped me was Geodon, but it eventually caused insomnia. Which is what happens with most of them. Doing ok with the Cymbalta, but not with a combination.
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