Antidepressants Bringing Out Bipolar Disorder Posted: 02-25-07 06:31am
I was mad depressed so i sought out a
psychiatrist who put me on fluoxetine
(generic prozac). After I was on this for
a little bit my swings from manic to
depressed got mad severe so they diagnosed
me with bipolar disorder. Now I'm also
taking depakote. I've been thinking lately
that my life was crappy before but It was
never as terrible as it has been lately
with the hightened severity of my
symptoms. I'd rather just not take
anything. I kinda feel like this diagnosis
was forced on me. I know I was bipolar
before but it feels like they made me
worse in order to cure me. It seems
backwards. Is anyone else going through
this? what do you kids think?
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Stan
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Posted: 02-25-07 10:53am
Yet again I must ask, did they ever test
you for any physical problems or were your
symptom only mental? It can sometimes
happen that a medicine causes the opposite
effect like this, and unless you clearly
had a problem with mania prior to taking
the first medication, they should have
tried changing it. Age can play a factor
in it.
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Jaydensmommy
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Posted: 02-25-07 21:15pm
I believe the your med is causing
it......i too was on that for a short
period of time and experienced extreme
mood swings I had to stop taking it! It
worked great for the first couple of
weeks, then the mood swings began. Or
maybe they can just adjust your dose?
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SimeonCross
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Posted: 02-28-07 00:22am
It takes most medications 6 weeks to 2
months to even begining to work. Maybe
you should just wait the course of time
and see what happens.
The adjustment period is difficult for all
of us bipolars, but no one ever promised
us a rose garden.
How is your anger today? Mine has
dissipated a lot since my psychiatrist has
re-adjusted my meds. I too have had a lot
of difficulty getting used to Tegretol.
It has given me an awful stomach ache, but
now that is mostly gone.
